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Radiography with cosmic-ray and compact accelerator muons; Exploring inner-structure of large-scale objects and landforms

Cosmic-ray muons (CRM) arriving from the sky on the surface of the earth are now known to be used as radiography purposes to explore the inner-structure of large-scale objects and landforms, ranging in thickness from meter to kilometers scale, such as volcanic mountains, blast furnaces, nuclear reac...

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Autor principal: NAGAMINE, Kanetada
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japan Academy 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5243946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27725469
http://dx.doi.org/10.2183/pjab.92.265
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description Cosmic-ray muons (CRM) arriving from the sky on the surface of the earth are now known to be used as radiography purposes to explore the inner-structure of large-scale objects and landforms, ranging in thickness from meter to kilometers scale, such as volcanic mountains, blast furnaces, nuclear reactors etc. At the same time, by using muons produced by compact accelerators (CAM), advanced radiography can be realized for objects with a thickness in the sub-millimeter to meter range, with additional exploration capability such as element identification and bio-chemical analysis. In the present report, principles, methods and specific research examples of CRM transmission radiography are summarized after which, principles, methods and perspective views of the future CAM radiography are described.
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spelling pubmed-52439462017-02-21 Radiography with cosmic-ray and compact accelerator muons; Exploring inner-structure of large-scale objects and landforms NAGAMINE, Kanetada Proc Jpn Acad Ser B Phys Biol Sci Review Cosmic-ray muons (CRM) arriving from the sky on the surface of the earth are now known to be used as radiography purposes to explore the inner-structure of large-scale objects and landforms, ranging in thickness from meter to kilometers scale, such as volcanic mountains, blast furnaces, nuclear reactors etc. At the same time, by using muons produced by compact accelerators (CAM), advanced radiography can be realized for objects with a thickness in the sub-millimeter to meter range, with additional exploration capability such as element identification and bio-chemical analysis. In the present report, principles, methods and specific research examples of CRM transmission radiography are summarized after which, principles, methods and perspective views of the future CAM radiography are described. The Japan Academy 2016-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5243946/ /pubmed/27725469 http://dx.doi.org/10.2183/pjab.92.265 Text en © 2016 The Japan Academy This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Radiography with cosmic-ray and compact accelerator muons; Exploring inner-structure of large-scale objects and landforms
title Radiography with cosmic-ray and compact accelerator muons; Exploring inner-structure of large-scale objects and landforms
title_full Radiography with cosmic-ray and compact accelerator muons; Exploring inner-structure of large-scale objects and landforms
title_fullStr Radiography with cosmic-ray and compact accelerator muons; Exploring inner-structure of large-scale objects and landforms
title_full_unstemmed Radiography with cosmic-ray and compact accelerator muons; Exploring inner-structure of large-scale objects and landforms
title_short Radiography with cosmic-ray and compact accelerator muons; Exploring inner-structure of large-scale objects and landforms
title_sort radiography with cosmic-ray and compact accelerator muons; exploring inner-structure of large-scale objects and landforms
topic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5243946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27725469
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