Using RPC Detectors as Cosmic Rays Monitor

Asmundis, R. de; Avella, Paola; Toglia, F.

doi:10.1109/tns.2007.895505

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“…Among the different detection systems available—emulsions (Tanaka et al 2007b), resistive plate chambers (De Asmundis et al 2007), micromegas (Giomataris et al 2006), scintillators (Pla‐Dalmau et al 2001)—matrices made with scintillator strips are favoured by the teams doing experiments on volcanoes (Uchida et al 2009; Gibert et al 2010). This choice was also guided by the strong experience acquired by several authors of the present paper who participate to the OPERA experiment (Acquafredda et al 2009).…”

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“…Excepted in very particular situations where artificial sources of muons could be used to perform imaging of geological objects (see Nagamine 2003, for a discussion about such a possibility), all experiments performed to date used muons of cosmic origin, belonging to the so-called secondary cosmic rays. The latter are produced high in the atmosphere (typically 15 km) through interactions between primary cosmic rays, coming from outer space (mainly protons-82.4 per cent-and α particles-11.5 per cent when normalized in number of nucleons per GeV per nucleon, see Table 1.1 in Gaisser 1990) and atmospheric molecules (Gaisser 1990;Crozon 2005). When measured at the sea level, charged cosmic rays are mainly (63 per cent) composed of muons with a mean energy E 0 ≈ 4 GeV near the zenith (Gaisser 1990).…”

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“…The interest in using muon imaging for Earth Sciences purposes soon arose after the discovery of cosmic rays (Auger 1941;Leprince-Ringuet 1945;Gaisser 1990;Crozon 2005) and muons (Neddermeyer & Anderson 1937, 1938, when it was realised that muons of cosmic origin are able to cross hundred of meters and even kilometres, of rock with an attenuation mainly related to the amount of matter encountered along their trajectory (Nagamine 2003). The very first studies relevant to muon imaging were motivated by the need to characterise the geological burden overlying underground laboratories hosting particles detectors (George 1955).…”

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Geophysical muon imaging: feasibility and limits

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International audienceWe study the possibility of muon radiography as a tool to investigate space and time changes in the internal density distribution inside geological structures. Previous work has shown the practical applicability of this method. Nevertheless, quantitative information on factors which impose limitations on it are still sorely lacking in the literature. We discuss the main issues that can influence the final result of a geophysical imaging experiment. In particular, with the view of optimizing the signal-to-noise ratio, we address issues concerning (i) the energy spectrum for muons arriving at different zenith angles, (ii) the muon propagation model through matter and (iii) the characteristics of the muon detector (telescope) that we have designed to perform experiments of muon radiography against the harsh environment usually encountered in the active zone of a volcano. We thus identify factors that can induce either static or dynamic effects and that should be taken into account. We also define a feasibility eq. (32) relating the geometrical characteristics of the telescope and the duration of the experiment to the expected density resolution, in turn a function of the geometrical characteristics of the target structure. This relation is especially important to define the applicability domain of muon radiography and it is utilized to test the suitability of the method to investigate the density distribution inside some candidate target structures

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“…Different detection techniques are available: emulsions (Tanaka et al, 2007), resistive plate chambers (De Asmundis et al, 2007), micromegas (Giomataris et al, 2006), scintillators (Pla-Dalmau et al, 2001). We retained the scintillator bars option to build the detection matrices since plastic scintillators are known to be robust, light, low-cost detectors particularly well suited to field conditions and actually used for most studies on volcanoes (Tanaka et al, 2005;Marteau et al, 2011).…”

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Design and operation of a field telescope for cosmic ray geophysical tomography

Lesparre

Marteau

Déclais

et al. 2012

Geosci. Instrum. Method. Data Syst.

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Abstract. The cosmic ray muon tomography gives an access to the density structure of geological targets. In the present article we describe a muon telescope adapted to harsh environmental conditions. In particular the design optimizes the total weight and power consumption to ease the deployment and increase the autonomy of the detector. The muon telescopes consist of at least two scintillator detection matrices readout by photosensors via optical fibres. Two photosensor options have been studied. The baseline option foresees one multianode photomultiplier (MAPM) per matrix. A second option using one multipixel photon counter (MPPC) per bar is under development. The readout electronics and data acquisition system developed for both options are detailed. We present a first data set acquired in open-sky conditions compared with the muon flux detected across geological objects.

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“…Different detection techniques are available: emulsions (Tanaka et al, 2007), resistive plate chambers (De Asmundis et al, 2007), micromegas (Giomataris et al, 2006), scintillators (Pla-Dalmau et al, 2001. We retained the scintillator bars option to build the detection matrices since plastic scintillators are known to be robust, light, low-cost detectors particularly well suited to field conditions and actually used for most studies on volcanoes (Tanaka et al, 2005;Marteau et al, 2011).…”

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Design and operation of a field telescope for cosmic ray geophysical tomography

Lesparre¹,

Marteau²,

Déclais³

et al. 2011

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The cosmic ray muon tomography gives an access to the density structure of geological targets. In the present article we describe a muon telescope adapted to harsh environmental conditions. In particular the design optimizes the total weight and power consumption to ease the deployment and increase the autonomy of the detector. The muon telescopes consist of at least two scintillator detection matrices readout by photosensors via optical fibres. Two photosensor options have been studied. The baseline option foresees one multianode photomultiplier (MAPM) per matrix. A second option using one multipixel photon counter (MPPC) per bar is under development. The readout electronics and data acquisition system developed for both options are detailed. We present a first data set acquired in open-sky conditions

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Using RPC Detectors as Cosmic Rays Monitor

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Geophysical muon imaging: feasibility and limits

Geophysical muon imaging: feasibility and limits

Design and operation of a field telescope for cosmic ray geophysical tomography

Design and operation of a field telescope for cosmic ray geophysical tomography

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