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"CERN COURIER
Jul 8, 2016
Imaging with muons
Cosmic muons have been used to image large objects from nuclear reactors to pyramids, thanks to their absorption within thick layers, but until now it has not been possible to image small objects. Now, Istvan Bikit of the University of Novi Sad in Serbia and colleagues have used a muon tracker and a high-purity germanium gamma spectrometer to perform the first cosmic-ray muon imaging of small objects made from low-Z elements. The study, which exploits the greater transparency of low-Z elements to secondary particles, represents a major improvement over absorption-only neutron imaging.
About the author
Compiled by John Swain, Northeastern University.
Further reading
I Bikit et al. 2016 EPL 113 58001."
Jul 8, 2016
Imaging with muons
Cosmic muons have been used to image large objects from nuclear reactors to pyramids, thanks to their absorption within thick layers, but until now it has not been possible to image small objects. Now, Istvan Bikit of the University of Novi Sad in Serbia and colleagues have used a muon tracker and a high-purity germanium gamma spectrometer to perform the first cosmic-ray muon imaging of small objects made from low-Z elements. The study, which exploits the greater transparency of low-Z elements to secondary particles, represents a major improvement over absorption-only neutron imaging.
About the author
Compiled by John Swain, Northeastern University.
Further reading
I Bikit et al. 2016 EPL 113 58001."
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I understand some Basic Chemistry. Having worked on a Nuclear Ship and done some Courses in Nuclear Response, I have a better than average understanding of some things but Particle Physics is way out of my Technical Expertise. Being a Geek I would probably think I died and went to Heaven at the Cern Accelerator.
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Thanks SSgt (Join to see) for sharing the CERN ["Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire", or European Council for Nuclear Research\Courier Imaging with muons article. It reminded me at first of quarks. I enjoy the sense of humor that physicists employ when naming particles. :-)
Particle acceleration is amazing "stuff"
Particle acceleration is amazing "stuff"
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LTC Stephen F. So many Physics super heroes and current and former math genuises like Richard Feynman. He actually took a test in Math and scored extremely high, in rarefied air. Also the lecture on the standard model. Unlike the bozos today, he would rout them.
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