href="#ue54981f3-0d4f-54c5-aeca-bd2d38179ea5">Part IV: Next Generation Muography
17 Development of Scintillator‐Based Muon Detectors for Muography
17.1. INTRODUCTION
17.2. DETECTING MUONS: DIRECT AND INVERSE PROBLEM
17.3. TECHNOLOGIES: DESIGN AND OPERATION OF SCINTILLATOR‐BASED DETECTORS
17.4. SCINTILLATORS AROUND THE WORLD
17.5. NON‐VOLCANOLOGIC APPLICATIONS: INVESTIGATION ON NUCLEAR REACTORS AND TUNNEL‐BORING MACHINES
17.6. CONCLUSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
REFERENCES
18 Resistive Plate Chambers in Muography
18.1. INTRODUCTION
18.2. RESISTIVE PLATE CHAMBER BASICS
18.3. RPC APPLICATIONS IN MUOGRAPHY
18.4. TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR GEOSCIENCES USE CASES
18.5. PERFORMANCE GOALS AND CHALLENGES
18.6. CONCLUSIONS
REFERENCES
19 Development of Multi‐Wire Proportional Chamber‐Based Trackers for Muography
19.1. INTRODUCTION
19.2. MWPC DETECTORS FOR PRACTICAL MUOGRAPHY
19.3. SMALL SIZE AND PORTABLE DETECTORS: CLOSE‐CATHODE CHAMBERS
19.4. MWPC TRACKING SYSTEM
19.5. GAS SUPPLY SYSTEM
19.6. CHALLENGES OF LOW‐MAINTENANCE AND REMOTE OPERATION CONDITIONS
19.7. LOW‐BACKGROUND ENVIRONMENTS AND HIGH DEFINITION IMAGING
19.8. PRACTICAL OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCES
19.9. SUMMARY
REFERENCES
20 Development of Micro‐Pattern Gaseous Detectors for Muography
20.1. INTRODUCTION TO MPGD
20.2. HARDWARE DEVELOPMENTS
20.3. GAS STUDIES
20.4. SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENTS
20.5. RESULTS
20.6. SUMMARY
REFERENCES
21 Development of Nuclear Emulsions for Muography
21.1. INTRODUCTION
21.2. NUCLEAR EMULSION TECHNOLOGY
21.3. MUOGRAPHY WITH NUCLEAR EMULSIONS
21.4. SUMMARY AND PROSPECTS
REFERENCES
12 INDEX
List of Tables
1 Chapter 4Table 4.1 The tuned hyperparameters of convolutional neural network and the...
2 Chapter 7Table 7.1 Maximum of corrected acceptance distribution, computed for every ...Table 7.2 Contribution to TOF module time resolution.Table 7.3 Nominal and effective acquisition time for each of the three data‐...Table 7.4 Event rate for the three measurement campaigns at NEC and the numb...
3 Chapter 8Table 8.1 Summary of the main parameters of the two data collection periods...Table 8.2 The relative density changes (Δρ rel ) are shown in standar...
4 Chapter 14Table 14.1 Physical parameters used in the numerical model.
5 Chapter 15Table 15.1 Proposed applications for muography as parts of the mine life cyc...
6 Chapter 16Table 16.1 Listing of tools for simulating muon propagation through matter.Table 16.2 Comparison of muon intensity at slant depths of 500, 1,000, and 2...
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 Integrated muon flux after passing through rock with a given thic...Figure 1.2 Principle of the muon tracking. The top view (a) and the side vie...Figure 1.3 Photographs of airborne muography. Distant (a) and close‐up (b) v...Figure 1.4 Muographic image of Satsuma‐Iwojima volcano, Japan. The arrow ind...Figure 1.5 Conduit magmatic convection model of Satsuma‐Iwojima volcano.Figure 1.6 Muographic image of Asama volcano, Japan (a) and images before an...Figure 1.7 Density variations of the central southern region of Honshu, Japa...Figure 1.8 Response of the muon flux to rainfall events. (a) The response in...
2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 Schematic of merging angular bins in generating a muographic imag...Figure 2.2 Schematic of the definition of X, Z, β, and D in equation 2....Figure 2.3 Schematic of the path length normalization approximation.Figure 2.4
