Applications of muon absorption radiography to the fields of archaeology and civil engineering

Saracino, G.; Ambrosino, F.; Bonechi, L.; Cimmino, Luigi; D’Alessandro, R.; D’Errico, M.; Noli, P.; Scognamiglio, L.; Strolin, P.

doi:10.1098/rsta.2018.0057

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“…There are several papers in this special issue that deal with this particular application [9][10][11]. Other geoscience applications include prospecting, especially brown site mining exploration [12], imaging of underground structures [13,14] and the monitoring of carbon capture storage sites [15]. Muography for geoscience applications fills a niche between other imaging technologies like ground penetrating radar and seismology, imaging at depths and resolutions that are not suitable for those.…”

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Muography: overview and future directions

Kaiser

2018

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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One contribution of 21 to a Theo Murphy meeting issue 'Cosmic-ray muography'.Cosmic-ray muography uses high-energy particles for imaging applications that are produced by cosmic rays in particle showers in the Earth's atmosphere. This technology has developed rapidly over the last 15 years, and it is currently branching out into many different applications and moving from academic research to commercial application. As in any new sub-field of research and technology, the nomenclature of the field itself is still developing and has not settled yet as new aspects of the field are appearing and with them the terms to describe them. This overview of the field of muography is not going to focus on the physics, on the reconstruction algorithms or on the involved detector technology. Detailed papers on these aspects are included in this issue of Philosophical Transactions A and I will refer to them. Instead, I will give an overview of the field as it is now, in 2018, and try to give an idea of the future directions in this field as I see them.This article is part of the Theo Murphy meeting issue 'Cosmic-ray muography'.

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Muography: overview and future directions

Kaiser

2018

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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“…In the following, the basic principles of muography are introduced. A more detailed description on the principles of muography can be found from previous publications such as Yang et al (2019), Saracino et al (2019) and Bonechi et al (2019).…”

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“…Up till now muography has been applied to or tested in many fields. For example, muography has been used in the imaging of volcanoes (Nagamine et al 1995;Tanaka et al 2007Tanaka et al , 2009Tanaka et al , 2014Okubo and Tanaka 2012;Lesparre et al 2012;Marteau et al 2012Marteau et al , 2015Shinohara and Tanaka 2012;Carlôganu et al 2013;Tanaka and Yokoyama 2013;Nishiyama et al 2014;Ambrosino et al 2015b;Jourde et al 2016;Tioukov et al 2017;Noli et al 2017;Kaiser 2019;D'Alessandro et al 2019;Oláh et al 2019;Tanaka 2019;Barnoud et al 2019;Lelièvre et al 2019), in mining exploration (Schouten 2019), in the imaging of underground structures (Bonneville et al 2019;Saracino et al 2019), in archaeology and tunnel detection (Basset et al 2006;Menichelli et al 2007;Levy et al 1988;Celmins 1990;Caffau et al1997;Morishima et al 2017), in the monitoring of carbon capture storage sites (Kudryavtsev et al 2012;Jiang et al 2013;Klinger et al 2015;Gluyas et al 2019), in scanning old mining sites to detect the possible presence of unknown cavities (Baccani et al 2019;Mitrica et al 2019), in investigation of mineral deposits and rock density measurements…”

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Muography and Its Potential Applications to Mining and Rock Engineering

Zhang

Enqvist²,

Holma

et al. 2020

Rock Mech Rock Eng

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Muography is a novel imaging method using natural cosmic-ray radiation for characterising and monitoring variation in average material density in a diverse range of objects that cannot be imaged by conventional imaging techniques. Muography includes muon radiography and muon tomography. Cosmic-ray-induced muons were discovered in the 1930’s, but rapid development of both muographic techniques has only occurred in the last two decades. With this rapid development, muography has been applied or tested in many fields such as volcano imaging, archaeology, underground structure and tunnel detection, rock mass density measurements, cargo scanning, imaging of nuclear waste and reactors, and monitoring of historical buildings and the inside of blast furnaces. Although applications of muography have already touched mining and rock engineering, such applications are still rare and they are just beginning to enter the market. Based on this background, this paper aims to introduce muography into the fields of mining and rock engineering. First, the basic properties of muons are summarized briefly. Second, potential applications of muography to mining and rock engineering are described. These applications include (1) monitoring temporal changes in the average material density of fracturing and deforming rock mass; (2) detecting geological structures and isolated ore bodies or weak zones in mines; (3) detecting a reservoir or boulders during tunnelling or drifting; (4) monitoring caving bodies to search remaining ore; (5) evaluating and classifying rock masses; (6) exploring new mineral deposits in operating underground mines and their surrounding brownfields. Finally, some issues such as maximum depth muons can reach are discussed.

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“…This technique is used for applications that require a noninvasive study. It is used in different fields like archaeology [13,14,15], civil engineering [16,17], nuclear safety [18], and geosciences. For this last one, several applications have been proposed, such as prospecting [19,20], imaging of underground structures [17], and volcano muography [12,21].…”

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“…It is used in different fields like archaeology [13,14,15], civil engineering [16,17], nuclear safety [18], and geosciences. For this last one, several applications have been proposed, such as prospecting [19,20], imaging of underground structures [17], and volcano muography [12,21]. In Latin America, detectors have been developed for similar purposes in Mexico [4], Colombia [5,6,8], and Argentina [9] and are also currently under development in Peru.…”

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Development of Mudulus: A Muography Detector Based on Double-Synchronized Electronics for Geophysical Applications

Calderón-Ardila¹,

Asorey²,

Almela³

et al. 2022

JAIS

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In this paper, we present a prototype modular muon detector ("Mudulus"), based on our previous experience with the design of the MuTe detector in Colombia and the AMIGA buried muon detectors in the Pierre Auger Collaboration. Our group is developing detectors for muography and multipurpose applications. Our prototype detectors use different modules of plastic scintillators with embedded optical fibers and 64 channel multianode photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) with a common dynode or arrays of Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPM). In the case of Mudulus, each module is made of 12 scintillator strips of (4 × 1 × 100) cm 3 coupled with a lengthwise running Wavelength Shifter (WLS) fiber, connected at each end to a PMT channel. This design allows us to build panels with up to four of these modules. This modular configuration allows changing the panel geometries looking for an adaptive shape or size to the studied object and resulting in a detailed muography image. The improvement in performance obtained with Mudulus is achieved by the combination of its modular design and the double-synchronized detection at the end of each scintillator bar. We take advantage of measuring at both ends of each strip to determine the muon flux using a model to account for signal attenuation in each anode, and then determine the position of the incoming muons with better discrimination and subpixel spatial resolution.

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Applications of muon absorption radiography to the fields of archaeology and civil engineering

Abstract: One contribution of 21 to a Theo Murphy meeting issue 'Cosmic-ray muography' .

Cited by 16 publications

References 29 publications

Muography: overview and future directions

Muography: overview and future directions

Muography and Its Potential Applications to Mining and Rock Engineering

Development of Mudulus: A Muography Detector Based on Double-Synchronized Electronics for Geophysical Applications

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