A novel muon detector for borehole density tomography

A Detector for Muon Tomography

This report describes the conceptual design of a particle detector that could be deployed underground for tracking cosmic-ray muons to enable tomographic reconstruction of the overlying ground and structures. The concept of cosmic-ray muon tomography has been known for a long time but seldom used in practice since the first demonstration. Developments in technology and methods of particle detec...

Muon Density Measurements with the KASCADE Central Detector

Frequency distributions of local muon densities in high-energy extensive air-showers (EAS) are presented as signature of the primary cosmic ray energy spectrum in the knee region. Together with the gross shower variables like shower core position, angle of incidence, and the shower sizes, the KASCADE experiment is able to measure local muon densities for two different muon energy thresholds. Th...

Muon simulations based on a realistic CBM muon detector system∗

The actual design of the muon detector system consists of 6 hadron absorber layers (iron plates of thickness 20, 20, 20, 30, 35, 100 cm) and 15-18 gaseous tracking chambers located in triplets behind each iron slab. The geometry of the muon system is presented in figure 1: the side view of the full system (top), the side wiew of one gap with detector layers (bottom left), and the side view of o...

A Detector Scenario for the Muon Cooling Experiment

Measuring the Muon Flux of Neutrino Beams with a Novel Gas Cherenkov Detector

Thesis directed by Professor Alysia Marino The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment is a future long-baseline neutrino experiment that plans to make measurements of neutrino oscillation parameters. This experiment will require accurate estimates of the neutrino fluxes through the near and far detectors; however, these estimates rely heavily on Monte-Carlo models of hadronic interactions. In ord...