Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 357, 2022
i-DUST 2022 – Inter-Disciplinary Underground Science and Technology
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Article Number | 01001 | |
Number of page(s) | 9 | |
Section | Coupling: Earth, Solid, Atmosphere, Universe | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202235701001 | |
Published online | 30 September 2022 |
Portable Resistive Plate Chambers for Muography in confined environments
1 Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
3 Centre for Medical and Radiation Physics (CMRP), National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, India
4 Multi-Disciplinary Physics Laboratory, Optics and Fiber Optics Group, Faculty of Sciences, Lebanese University, Hadath, Lebanon
* e-mail: ishan.ran@uclouvain.be
Muography (or muon radiography) is an imaging technique that relies on the use of cosmogenic muons as a free and safe radiation source. It can be applied in various fields such as archaeology, civil engineering, geology, nuclear reactor monitoring, nuclear waste characterization, underground surveys, etc. In such applications, sometimes deploying muon detectors is challenging due to logistics, e.g. in a narrow underground tunnel or mine. Therefore, we are developing muon detectors whose design goals include portability, robustness, autonomy, versatility, and safety. Our portable muon detectors (or “muoscopes”) are based on Resistive Plate Chambers (RPC), planar detectors that use ionization in a thin gas gap to detect cosmic muons. Prototype RPCs of active area 16×16 cm2 and 28 × 28 cm2 were built in our laboratories at Louvain-la-Neuve (UCLouvain) and Ghent (UGent) to test and compare various design options. Benefiting from the experience gained in building and operating these prototypes, we are proceeding towards the development of improved prototypes with more advanced technical layout and readiness. In this paper we provide the status of our performance studies, including the cross-validation of the two types of prototypes in a joint data taking, and an outline of the direction ahead.
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