Borehole muography of subsurface reservoirs

Bonneville, Alain; Kouzes, Richard T.; Yamaoka, J.; Lintereur, Azaree T.; Flygare, Joshua; Varner, G.; Mostafanezhad, Isar; Guardincerri, E.; Rowe, C. A.; Mellors, R. J.

doi:10.1098/rsta.2018.0060

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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.…”

Section: Muography Applicationsmentioning

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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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Section: Muography Applicationsmentioning

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Muography: overview and future directions

Kaiser

2018

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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“…Detector control, data acquisition are allowed by a local network that is accessible from remote places. This arrangement provides automated data management and analysis that allows to realize real-time muography by increasing the number of modules [84,116]. The design of the recently applied systems is expected to be applicable in future large-sized systems, such as the multi-aspect-geo-muography-array (MAGMA) experiment 3 , which is designed to operate with a few hundreds of modules to reach the desired time imaging time of a few hours for early warning.…”

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Muography as a new complementary tool in monitoring volcanic hazard: implications for early warning systems

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Muography uses muons naturally produced in the interactions between cosmic rays and atmosphere for imaging and characterization of density differences and time-sequential changes in solid (e.g. rocks) and liquid (e.g. melts ± dissolved gases) materials in scales from tens of metres to up to a few kilometres. In addition to being useful in discovering the secrets of the pyramids, ore prospecting and surveillance of nuclear sites, muography successfully images the internal structure of volcanoes. Several field campaigns have demonstrated that muography can image density changes relating to magma ascent and descent, magma flow rate, magma degassing, the shape of the magma body, an empty conduit diameter, hydrothermal activity and major fault lines. In addition, muography is applied for long-term volcano monitoring in a few selected volcanoes around the world. We propose using muography in volcano monitoring in conjunction with other existing techniques for predicting volcanic hazards. This approach can provide an early indication of a possible future eruption and potentially the first estimate of its scale by producing direct evidence of magma ascent through its conduit in real time. Knowing these issues as early as possible buy critically important time for those responsible for the local alarm and evacuation protocols.

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“…The angular resolution of the detector is determined by the precision of the x and y position measurements in each plane and the spacing distance between the planes. There are many examples in the literature describing such muon tomography detector systems of varying size and composition [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11].…”

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“…The term "tomography" can imply a three-dimensional imaging method but is used here in an overarching manner to refer to muon imaging which may be either a two-dimensional projection or a three-dimensional reconstruction depending on the method utilized. Several fields require imaging measurements of such density changes in a subsurface or ground-level environment, including but not limited to, archaeology [1,2], tunneling activities [3,4], carbon sequestration [5,6], non-proliferation and treaty verification [7,8], nuclear smuggling [9,10], oil and gas exploration and storage [3], mineral exploration [11], and volcano studies [12].…”

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Novel Muon Tomography Detector for the Pyramids

Kouzes¹,

Lintereur²,

Mostafanezhad³

et al. 2022

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Cosmic-ray muons which impinge upon the Earth's surface can be used to image the density of geological and man-made materials located above a muon detector. The detectors used for these measurements must be capable of determining the muon rate as a function of the angle of incidence. Applications of this capability include geological carbon storage, natural gas storage, enhanced oil recovery, compressed air storage, oil and gas production, tunnel detection, and detection of hidden rooms in man-made structures such as the pyramids. For these applications, the detector must be small and rugged and have operational characteristics which enable its use in remote locations, such as low power requirements. A new muon detector design is now being constructed to make measurements on the Khafre pyramid, in Egypt, to look for unknown voids that might exist in the structure. The new detector design uses monolithic plates of scintillator with wavelength-shifting fiber optic readout to obtain location information. This design will meet the operational requirements, while also providing a geometry that can be modified for different measurement conditions.

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Borehole muography of subsurface reservoirs

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

Cited by 14 publications

References 10 publications

Muography: overview and future directions

Muography: overview and future directions

Muography as a new complementary tool in monitoring volcanic hazard: implications for early warning systems

Novel Muon Tomography Detector for the Pyramids

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