NS21B:
Cosmic-Ray Muons in Combination with Other Geophysical Data to Improve Resolution of Subsurface Imaging: Sensors, Analysis, Inversion, and Applications from Tunnel to Mountain Scale Posters


Session ID#: 7404

Session Description:
Nontraditional geophysical imaging methods are gaining increased attention as more emphasis is given to improving the resolution and reducing the uncertainty of images for shallow targets.  Cosmic ray muon methods in particular are being leveraged in a wide variety of applications, and new emphasis is being placed on jointly inverting these data with complementary geophysical measurements.  If your geophysical or geological imaging research includes the use of cosmic ray muon density mapping, particularly in combination with other types of geophysical data, we encourage your contribution to this session. Sensor technologies, data analysis methods and field deployments at scales ranging from tunnel to reservoir and from ore body to whole mountain are welcome.
Primary Convener:  Charlotte A Rowe, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Conveners:  Alain Bonneville, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Andre Revil, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, United States
Chairs:  Charlotte A Rowe, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Alain Bonneville, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Charlotte A Rowe, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Co-Organized with:
Near Surface Geophysics, and Seismology

Cross-Listed:
  • S - Seismology
  • V - Volcanology, Geochemistry and Petrology
Index Terms:

0915 Downhole methods [EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS]
8015 Local crustal structure [STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY]
8094 Instruments and techniques [STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY]
9810 New fields (not classifiable under other headings) [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Cosmic Ray Scattering Radiography (Invited) (75291)
Christopher L. Morris, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Los Alamos Threat Reduction Team
Measurement Over Large Solid Angle of Low Energy Cosmic Ray Muon Flux (84015)
Henry Fredrick Schreiner III and Roy F Schwitters, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Simulation of Underground Muon Flux with Application to Muon Tomography (81248)
Jared Andrew Kiyoshi Yamaoka1, Alain Bonneville1, Joshua Flygare2, Azaree Lintereur3 and Richard Kouzes1, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States
Applications of Cosmic Ray Muon Radiography (Invited) (63817)
Elena Guardincerri1, J. Matthew Durham1, Christopher L. Morris2, Charlotte A Rowe2, Daniel C. Poulson2, Jeffrey D. Bacon2, Kenie Plaud-Ramos2 and Deborah J. Morley2, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States
Imaging a vertical shaft from a tunnel using muons (Invited) (69862)
Nedra Bonal1, Leiph A Preston2, Daniel J. Dorsey2, Dave Schwellenbach3, Andrew Green4 and Duane Smalley3, (1)Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)National Security Technologies - NSTec, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)National Security Technologies, Las Vegas, NV, United States
Muon Tomography for Geological Repositories. (Invited) (63404)
Vitaly Kudryavtsev1, Jon Gluyas2, Samantha Jean Clark2, Lee F Thompson1, Joel Klinger1, Neil JC Spooner1, David Woodward1, Tim B Blackwell1, Sumanta Pal1, Darren L Lincoln1, Sean M Paling1,3, Cathryn N Mitchell4, Chris Benton4, Max L Coleman5, Sam Telfer1, Andrew Cole1, Sam Nolan2 and Paula Chadwick2, (1)University of Sheffield, Physics and Astronomy, Sheffield, United Kingdom, (2)Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom, (3)Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, STFC, Bulby Underground Science Facility, Loftus, United Kingdom, (4)University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, (5)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Borehole Muon Detector Development (82356)
Alain Bonneville1, Joshua Flygare2, Richard Kouzes1, Azaree Lintereur3, Jared Andrew Kiyoshi Yamaoka1 and Gary S Varner4, (1)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (2)University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (3)Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, University Park, PA, United States, (4)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States
Recent Advances and Field Trial Results Integrating Cosmic Ray Muon Tomography with Other Data Sources for Mineral Exploration (83826)
Doug Schouten, CRM Geotomography Technologies, Inc., Vancouver, BC, Canada
Joint Tomographic Imaging of 3-­‐D Density Structure Using Cosmic Ray Muons and High-­‐Precision Gravity Data (74764)
Charlotte A Rowe, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, Elena Guardincerri, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, Mousumi Roy, Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States and Michal Dichter, University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States

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