NS005
Cosmic-Ray Muon Imaging: Methodological Advances and Applications

Session ID#: 77725

Session Description:
Cosmic-ray muon imaging or muography uses the natural flux of elementary particles called muons to characterize the density structure of geological bodies. Density is estimated by comparing muon fluxes before and after traversing the body, in a similar way to X-ray radiography. Density changes in time can also be estimated by continuously measuring the muon flux with a fixed muon detector. This technique offers new opportunities to study targets ranging from large bodies such as volcanoes or geological structures above deep tunnels; to meter-scale ore bodies and archeological structures.

We seek to further advance this method by bringing together methodological and numerical studies, data processing techniques, instrumentation developments, and case studies. We particularly welcome studies combining muon imaging with other geophysical methods or data constraints, aiming for an improved characterization and understanding of the subsurface.

Index Terms:

0910 Data processing [EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS]
0933 Remote sensing [EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS]
0994 Instruments and techniques [EXPLORATION GEOPHYSICS]
8494 Instruments and techniques [VOLCANOLOGY]

Primary Convener:  Marina Rosas-Carbajal, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
Conveners:  Giovanni Macedonio, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Napoli, Italy, Jacques Marteau, IPNL, Lyon, France and Simon Bouteille, IRIS Instruments, Orleans Cedex 2, France
Primary Liaison:  Marina Rosas-Carbajal, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France
 
Benchmark of multiple geophysics tools to study the voids in the upper levels of a decommissioned iron mine (492111)
Simon Bouteille, IRIS Instruments, Orleans Cedex 2, France, Adnand Bitri, BRGM, Orleans, France and Michel Dietz, BRGM, Orléans, France
 
Muographic long-term monitoring of the Soufrière of Guadeloupe with a system of coupled muon detection systems. (492858)
Jacques Marteau1, Marina Rosas-Carbajal2, Matias Tramontini3, Fabio Zyserman4, Jean de Bremond d Ars5, Yves Le Gonidec6, Bruno Carlus1, Jean-Christophe Ianigro1, Sébastien Deroussi7 and Dominique Gibert8, (1)IPNL, Lyon, France, (2)Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, 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
 
Imaging UK railway tunnels using a mobile muon tomography system (492946)
Patrick Stowell, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, Jon Gluyas, University of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom, Chris Steer, University of St Mary's, Physics, Twickenham, United Kingdom, Lee F Thompson, University of Sheffield, Physics and Astronomy, Sheffield, United Kingdom and Geoptics Limited
 
Middle-atmosphere Dynamics Studied with a Portable Muon Detector at the Mont Terri Underground Rock Laboratory, Switzerland. (494619)
Matias Tramontini, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Astronomicas y Geofisicas, La Plata, Argentina, Marina Rosas-Carbajal, Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, Christophe Nussbaum, CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering Perth, Perth, WA, Australia, Dominique Gibert, University of Rennes, OSUR/Geosciences Rennes UMR6118 CNRS, Rennes Cedex, France and Jacques Marteau, IPNL, Lyon, France
 
Imaging of ice-bedrock interface geometry beneath active alpine glaciers with cosmic-ray muon radiography (Invited) (495863)
Ryuichi Nishiyama1,2, Ariga Akitaka1, Tomoko Ariga1,3, Alessandro Lechmann4, David Mair4, Ciro Pistillo1, Paola Scampoli1,5, Pierre Valla6, Mykhailo Vladymyrov1, Antonio Ereditato1 and Fritz Schlunegger4, (1)Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Laboratory for High-Energy Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, (2)Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (3)Faculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, (4)University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences, Bern, Switzerland, (5)Dipartimento di Fisica “Ettore Pancini", Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy, (6)University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
 
Comparison of several theoretical muon flux with real data. (498357)
Amélie Cohu, Antoine Chevalier and Jacques Marteau, IPNL, Lyon, France
 
Combined Muon, Seismic and Electrical Resistivity Measurements to Characterize a Karstic Unsaturated Zone (LSBB, France) (498600)
Sylvain Pasquet1, Marina Rosas-Carbajal2, Jacques Marteau3, Jean-Christophe Ianigro3, Konstantinos Chalikakis4, Naomi Mazzilli4, Matias Tramontini5 and Cédric Champollion6, (1)Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (2)Université de Paris, Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, (3)IPNL, Lyon, France, (4)University of Avignon, UMR 1114, EMMAH, Avignon, France, (5)Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Astronomicas y Geofisicas, La Plata, Argentina, (6)Géosciences Montpellier, Montpellier Cedex 05, France
 
Imaging of ice-bedrock interface shape beneath active alpine glaciers with cosmic-ray muon radiography (Invited) (502358)
Ryuichi Nishiyama1,2, Ariga Akitaka1, Tomoko Ariga1,3, Alessandro Lechmann4, David Mair4, Ciro Pistillo1, Paola Scampoli1,5, Pierre Valla6, Mykhailo Vladymyrov1, Antonio Ereditato1 and Fritz Schlunegger4, (1)Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, Laboratory for High-Energy Physics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, (2)Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, (3)Faculty of Arts and Science, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, (4)University of Bern, Institute of Geological Sciences, Bern, Switzerland, (5)Dipartimento di Fisica “Ettore Pancini", Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy, (6)University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France
 
Using mobile muography on board a Tunnel boring machine to detect man-made structures (514494)
Antoine Chevalier1, Marina Rosas-Carbajal2, Dominique Gibert3, Amélie Cohu1, Bruno Carlus1, Jean-Christophe Ianigro1, Florent Bouvier4 and Jacques Marteau1, (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)Pulsalys, Villeurbanne, France
 
An Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope Prototype for Volcanoes Muography (581239)
Davide Mollica1, Melania Del Santo1, Osvaldo Catalano1, Teresa Mineo1, Valentina La Parola1, Giancarlo Cusumano1, Maria Concetta Maccarone1, Giovanni La Rosa1, Giuseppe Sottile1, Rodolfo Canestrari1, Pierluca Sangiorgi1, Anna Anzalone1, Antonino D'Aì1, Antonio Pagliaro1 and Giovanni Pareschi2, (1)INAF, IASF Palermo, Palermo, Italy, (2)INAF, OAB, Milano, Italy
 
An experiment of muography at Vesuvius (Italy) (595253)
Giovanni Macedonio1, Giulio Saracino2, Fabio Ambrosino3, Guglielmo Baccani4, Lorenzo Bonechi5, Massimo Bongi5, Alan Bross6, Luigi Cimmino2, Roberto Ciaranfi5, Vitaliano Ciulli5, Raffaello D'Alessandro5, Mariaelena D'Errico2, Flora Giudicepietro7, Sandro Gonzi8, Marcello Martini7, Vincenzo Masone2, Barbara Melon5, Pasquale Noli2, Massimo Orazi7, Giuseppe Passeggio2, Rosario Peluso7, Anna Pla-Dalmau6, Lorenzo Roscilli2, Luca Scognamiglio2, Paolo Emilio Strolin2 and Enrico Vertechi7, (1)National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy, (2)National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Napoli, Italy, (3)Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Napoli, Napoli, Italy, (4)National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Turin, Italy, (5)National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Florence, Italy, (6)Fermilab, Batavia, United States, (7)Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Osservatorio Vesuviano, Napoli, Italy, (8)University of Florence, Physics and Astronomy, Florence, Italy
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