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UFN, 2017 Volume 187, Number 12, Pages 1375–1392 (Mi ufn5962)

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INSTRUMENTS AND METHODS OF INVESTIGATION

Muon radiography method for fundamental and applied research

A. B. Aleksandrova, M. S. Vladymyrova, V. I. Galkinbc, L. A. Goncharovaa, V. M. Grachevd, S. G. Vasinaa, N. S. Konovalovaa, A. A. Malovichkoe, A. K. Managadzeb, N. M. Okat'evaa, N. G. Polukhinaadf, T. M. Roganovab, N. I. Starkova, V. E. Tioukovag, M. M. Chernyavskya, T. V. Shchedrinaa

a Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
b Lomonosov Moscow State University, Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics
c Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University
d National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow
e Federal Research Center "Geophysical Survey", Russian Academy of Sciences
f National University of Science and Technology MISIS
g Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Naples, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant'Angelo

Abstract: This paper focuses on the basic principles of the muon radiography method, reviews the major muon radiography experiments, and presents the first results in Russia obtained by the authors using this method based on emulsion track detectors.

Keywords: muon radiography, nuclear photoemulsion, image recognition, track detectors.

PACS: 07.05.Fb, 07.05.Hd, 07.05.Kf, 29.40.-n

Received: March 21, 2017
Revised: July 27, 2017
Accepted: July 19, 2017

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.2017.07.038188


 English version:
Physics–Uspekhi, 2017, 60:12, 1277–1293

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