Muon tomography or muography is a technique that uses cosmic ray muons to generate two or three-dimensional images of volumes using information contained...

A muon (/ˈm(j)uː.ɒn/ M(Y)OO-on; from the Greek letter mu (μ) used to represent it) is an elementary particle similar to the electron, with an electric...

contained in the Coulomb scattering of the muons. Since muons are much more deeply penetrating than X-rays, muon tomography can be used to image through much thicker...

Tomography is imaging by sections or sectioning that uses any kind of penetrating wave. The method is used in radiology, archaeology, biology, atmospheric...

techniques.[clarification needed] The team was using Infrared thermography, muon tomography, 3D simulation and reconstruction techniques. ScanPyramids is an interdisciplinary...

volcano with cosmic muons. In 2007, he led a team of scientists to install a muon detector near the summit of a volcano. By measuring muons traveling nearly...

Nobel Prize, shared by George Smoot and John Mather). Alvarez proposed muon tomography in 1965 to search the Egyptian pyramids for unknown chambers. Using...

operations in the money pit. 185 5 "Muon the Horizon" December 5, 2023 (2023-12-05) 2.34 Two years later, Muon tomography divulges a cavity known as Alladin's...

dual-energy X-ray radiography, backscatter X-ray radiography, muon radiography, muon tomography, neutron activation systems, or gamma-ray radiography. Terahertz...

The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source is a pulsed neutron and muon source, established 1984 at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory of the Science and Technology...

environment to biological systems Deep Carbon, MuScan, Muon-Tides (3 experiments): Muon Tomography DRIFT-II (Directional Recoil Identification From Tracks):...

year. Beginning 2004, Schwitters led the University of Texas Maya Muon Tomography research team. From 2005 to 2011, he was the chair of the JASON Defense...

research Metallurgy Reactive surface chemistry Radiation protection Muon tomography (Muography) Archaeology. Herz, A.J.; Lock, W.O. (May 1966). "Nuclear...

16 November 2021 Cosmic Muon Images Annotation Volunteers annotate graphs to find particle tracks as part of muon tomography experiments. 11 January 2022...

University of Technology and Economics, to demonstrate the use of muon tomography in geophysical surveying of underground structures. On 21 February...

satellites, the Raptor telescope suite, the Swift satellite. Muon tomography: Cosmic-ray muon tomography to detect high-Z materials. Nuclear nonproliferation:...

create neutrinos in one of three leptonic flavors: electron neutrino, ν e muon neutrino, ν μ tau neutrino, ν τ Each flavor is associated with the correspondingly...

Neutron tomography is a form of computed tomography involving the production of three-dimensional images by the detection of the absorbance of neutrons...

positron-emitting radionuclide (tracer), are detected in positron emission tomography (PET) scanners used in hospitals. PET scanners create detailed three-dimensional...

of IceCube data was evaluated to perform neutrino tomography. The analysis studied upward going muons, which provide both the energy and directionality...

Backscattering spectrometer Spin-echo spectrometer Other applications Neutron tomography Activation analysis, Prompt gamma activation analysis Fundamental research...

is a theoretical crisis precipitated by a 1987 experiment by the European Muon Collaboration (EMC), which tried to determine the distribution of spin within...

producing pairs of gamma rays, a process exploited in positron emission tomography. The laws of nature are very nearly symmetrical with respect to particles...

when taking a digital image, such as through image plates, and neutron tomography for three-dimensional images. Neutron imaging is commonly used in the...

(replacing an -on suffix when present), with one exception for "muonium"; a muon–antimuon bound pair is called "true muonium" to avoid confusion with old...

Backscattering spectrometer Spin-echo spectrometer Other applications Neutron tomography Activation analysis, Prompt gamma activation analysis Fundamental research...

by muon spin rotation, in which the muonium atom's spin precesses in a magnetic field applied transverse to the muon spin direction (since muons are...

decelerator Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider Penning trap Uses Positron emission tomography Fuel Weapon Scientists Carl David Anderson Paul Dirac Andrei Sakharov...

C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X See also References μSR – see muon spin spectroscopy χ – see magnetic susceptibility AAS – Atomic absorption...

understanding of this process is of some importance in positron emission tomography. Approximately: ~60% of positrons will directly annihilate with an electron...