Applications of Muon Radiography at LANL
Abstract
Cosmic-ray muons are free, ubiquitous, very penetrating particles.
Muon radiography takes advantage of them to probe objects that, because of their thickness or the shielding around them, would be out of the reach of more traditional radiographic techniques. I will discuss some of the applications of Muon Radiography at LANL, in particular, the use of cosmic ray muons to image shallow geophysical objects, to assess the content of dry casks containing spent nuclear fuel, and the use of cosmic ray muons to image the interior of thick walls for historic preservation purposes.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMNS23B0699G
- Keywords:
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- 0933 Remote sensing;
- EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICSDE: 9805 Instruments useful in three or more fields;
- GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUSDE: 4315 Monitoring;
- forecasting;
- prediction;
- NATURAL HAZARDSDE: 8419 Volcano monitoring;
- VOLCANOLOGY