Experiments on muon radiography with emulsion track detectors

Abstract

Abstract. Muon radiography is a method of study the internal structure of large natural and industrial objects based on sensing an object with a flux of cosmic muons with their subsequent registration and analysis of the pattern of their dispersion, or conplete (or partial) absorption.The Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of Moscow State University have started a series of muon radiography experiments with nuclear emulsion detectors. As a result, the optimal conditions for experiment arrangement have been determined, algorithms of data processing have been worked out, and peculiarities of the method have been ultimately investigated.

Muon Radiography Method for Non-Invasive Probing an Archaeological Site in the Naryn-Kala Citadel

“…Currently, in experiments conducted using the method of muon radiography, both electronic and emulsion track detectors are used. Emulsion detectors [11,12] have a number of advantages, with the main one being a high angular resolution. Of all the muon radiography detectors, the emulsion ones have the best angular resolution.…”