NS23B:
Cosmic Ray Muon Tomography: An Emerging Technique for Imaging and Monitoring Large Volumes Posters


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Session ID#: 50640

Session Description:
Cosmic-ray muon tomography or muography is an imaging technique that takes advantage of the naturally occurring flux of elementary particles called muons, originating from nuclear interactions in the upper atmosphere. Muons are capable of penetrating a few hundred meters of material before being absorbed, which allows estimating the density of large-scale bodies by measuring their absorption rate, similarly to X-ray radiography. This passive method offers new opportunities for studying massive bodies for several months, with applications that include the characterization and monitoring of volcanoes or the investigation for ore bodies or underground cavities using specialized detectors. Strong developments are ongoing both in instrumentation (borehole detector) and in data analysis (inversion), bringing this method at the forefront of innovative geophysical techniques. This session will help drawing the particle physics and geophysics communities closer together to expand the range of applications.
Primary Convener:  Simon Bouteille, IRIS Instruments, Orleans Cedex 2, France
Conveners:  Jacques Marteau, IPNL, Lyon, France and Andrea Giammanco, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
Primary Liaison:  Simon Bouteille, IRIS Instruments, Orleans Cedex 2, France
Chairs:  Andrea Giammanco, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium and Jacques Marteau, IPNL, Lyon, France
OSPA Liaison:  Simon Bouteille, IRIS Instruments, Orleans Cedex 2, France

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

0933 Remote sensing [EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS]
4315 Monitoring, forecasting, prediction [NATURAL HAZARDS]
8419 Volcano monitoring [VOLCANOLOGY]
9805 Instruments useful in three or more fields [GENERAL OR MISCELLANEOUS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Applications of Muon Radiography at LANL (346427)
Elena Guardincerri1, Jeffrey D. Bacon2, J. Matthew Durham1, Christopher L. Morris2, Daniel C. Poulson2, Charlotte A Rowe2 and Mousumi Roy3, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States
A Portable Muon Telescope based on Small and Gas-tight Resistive Plate Chambers (346713)
Sophie Wuyckens, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
Abrupt Changes of Hydrothermal Activity in a lava Dome Detected by Combined Seismic and Muon Monitoring (386037)
Dominique Gibert1, Yves Le Gonidec2,3, Marina Rosas-Carbajal4, Jean de Bremond d Ars5, Bruno Carlus6, Jean-Christophe Ianigro6, Jacques Marteau6 and Bruno Kergosien7, (1)University of Rennes, OSUR/Geosciences Rennes UMR6118 CNRS, Rennes Cedex, France, (2)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (3)Géosciences Rennes, UMR 6118-CNRS, Rennes, France, (4)Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (5)CNRS, Geosciences Rennes UMR 6118, Rennes, France, (6)IPNL, Lyon, France, (7)Géosciences Rennes, Rennes Cedex, France
Muon Survey Tomography Based On Micromegas Detectors For Unreachable Sites Technology (MUST2). Principles, Experimental Results And Overlook (389168)
Ignacio Lázaro Roche1,2, Catherine Truffert, Julien Gance4, Jean-Baptiste Decitre5, Stéphane Gaffet5 and Adnand Bitri6, (1)Low Background Noise Underground Laboratoy(LSBB) CNRS UMS 3538, Rustrel, France, (2)IRIS Instruments, Orleans Cedex 2, France, (3)IRIS-Instruments, Orléans, France, (4)CNRS LSBB, Rustrel, France, (5)BRGM, Orleans, France
MUTE: MUON TELESCOPE FOR VOLCANIC MUONGRAPHY. (396595)
Jose Sanabria-Gomez, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States; Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia and MUTE COLLABORATION
Monitoring muon flux variations besides and on a tunnel-boring machine. (397767)
Antoine Chevalier1, Marina Rosas-Carbajal2, Bruno Carlus3, Jean-Christophe Ianigro3, Jacques Marteau3, Dominique Gibert4 and Pierre De Sloovere5, (1)Université de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard, CNRS, Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon - UMR 5822, Villeurbanne, France, (2)Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (3)IPNL, Lyon, France, (4)University of Rennes, OSUR/Geosciences Rennes UMR6118 CNRS, Rennes Cedex, France, (5)PDS consult, 18 Rue Delambre, 75014 Paris., PAris, France
Applied muography : from volcanology to archaelogy with a mobile muon detector (DIAPHANE / ARCHé) (405900)
Jacques Marteau1, Marina Rosas-Carbajal2, Dominique Gibert3, Bruno Carlus1, Jean-Christophe Ianigro1, Antoine Chevalier4, Corinne Goy SR.5, Yannis Kariotakis6, Stavros Katsanevas7, Alessandra Tonazzo8, Grigoris Tsokas9 and Theodoros Avgitas7, (1)IPNL, Lyon, France, (2)Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (3)University of Rennes, OSUR/Geosciences Rennes UMR6118 CNRS, Rennes Cedex, France, (4)University Pierre and Marie Curie Paris VI, METIS, Paris, France, (5)Laboratoire d'Annecy le Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP)., Annecy le Vieux, France, (6)Laboratoire d'Annecy le Vieux de Physique des Particules (LAPP), Annecy le Vieux, France, (7)AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, Paris, France, (8)AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France, (9)Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTΗ), Thessaloniki, Greece
Long-term, coupled muon measurements to track density changes at La Soufrière de Guadeloupe volcano (405956)
Marina Rosas-Carbajal1, Jacques Marteau2, Matias Tramontini3, Fabio Zyserman4, Jean de Bremond d Ars5, Yves Le Gonidec6, Bruno Carlus2, Jean-Christophe Ianigro2, Sébastien Deroussi7 and Dominique Gibert8, (1)Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (2)IPNL, Lyon, France, (3)Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Astronomicas y Geofisicas, La Plata, Argentina, (4)CONICET - Facultad de Ciencias Astronomicas y Geofisicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, La Plata, Argentina, (5)CNRS, Geosciences Rennes UMR 6118, Rennes, France, (6)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (7)Observatoire volcanologique et sismologique de Guadeloupe, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (8)University of Rennes, OSUR/Geosciences Rennes UMR6118 CNRS, Rennes Cedex, France
Muon imaging and monitoring at the Mont Terri underground rock laboratory, Switzerland. (408435)
Matias Tramontini1, Marina Rosas-Carbajal2, Jacques Marteau3, Fabio Zyserman4, Bruno Carlus3, Jean-Christophe Ianigro3, Dominique Gibert5 and Christophe Nussbaum6, (1)Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Astronomicas y Geofisicas, La Plata, Argentina, (2)Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (3)IPNL, Lyon, France, (4)CONICET - Facultad de Ciencias Astronomicas y Geofisicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, La Plata, Argentina, (5)University of Rennes, OSUR/Geosciences Rennes UMR6118 CNRS, Rennes Cedex, France, (6)CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Perth, Perth, WA, Australia
MURAVES: An experiment of muon radiography at Vesuvius (431321)
Giovanni Macedonio1, Giulio Saracino2,3, Fabio Ambrosino2,3, Guglielmo Baccani4,5, Lorenzo Bonechi6, Massimo Bongi5,6, Alan Bross7, Luigi Cimmino2, Roberto Ciaranfi6, Vitaliano Ciulli5,6, Raffaello D'Alessandro5,6, Mariaelena D'Errico2, Flora Giudicepietro8, Sandro Gonzi5,6, Marcello Martini8, Vincenzo Masone2, Barbara Melon6,9, Pasquale Noli2, Massimo Orazi8, Giuseppe Passeggio2, Rosario Peluso8, Anna Pla-Dalmau7, Lorenzo Roscilli2, Luca Scognamiglio2, Paolo Emilio Strolin2,3 and Enrico Vertechi8, (1)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Napoli, Italy, (2)National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Napoli, Italy, (3)The University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, (4)National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Turin, Italy, (5)University of Florence, Physics and Astronomy, Florence, Italy, (6)National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Florence, Italy, (7)Fermilab, Batavia, United States, (8)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Vesuviano, Napoli, Italy, (9)Centro Siciliano di Fisica Nucleare e Struttura della Materia, Catania, Italy
Application of Muography for Investigating the Internal Structure of Stromboli Volcano (434499)
Valeri Tioukov1, Andrey Alexandrov2, Cristiano Bozza3, Lucia Consiglio4, Nicola D'Ambrosio5, Giovanni De Lellis6, Chiara De Sio7, Flora Giudicepietro8, Giovanni Macedonio9, Seigo Miyamoto10, Ryuichi Nishiyama11, Massimo Orazi8, Rosario Peluso8, Chiara Sirignano12, Simona Maria Stellacci3, Paolo Emilio Strolin13 and Hiroyuki Tanaka10, (1)National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Sezione di Napoli, Turin, Italy, (2)National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy, (3)Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Dipartimento di Fisica, Fisciano, Italy, (4)Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy, (5)Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, LNGS, Assergi, Italy, (6)Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Fisica, Napoli, Italy, (7)Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Fisciano, Italy, (8)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Vesuviano, Napoli, Italy, (9)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Napoli, Italy, (10)The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (11)Earthquake Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (12)Universita degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Padova, Italy, (13)National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Napoli, Italy
Prototype-module of a muon tracker to investigate the density distribution of the Popocatepetl volcano lava dome (468006)
Varlen Grabski1, Fernando Velázquez-Carreón SR2, Saul Aguilar3, Arturo Menchaca-Rocha3 and Jaime Urrutia Fucugauchi4, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Ecatepec, Mexico, (3)Instituto de Fisica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, Mexico, (4)Univ Natl Autonoma Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

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