Design and construction of muon tomography facility based on MRPC detector for high-Z materials detection

Author

Xuewu Wang ; Jianping Cheng ; Yi Wang ; Qian Yue ; Ziran Zhao ; Zhi Zeng ; Ming Zeng ; Zhi Deng ; Hengguan Yi ; Zhifei Luo ; Xiaoguang Vue ; Baihui Yu ; Xingming Fan ; Hongchao Pang ; Hongwei Yang ; Senlin Liu

Author_Institution

Key Lab. of Particle & Radiat. Imaging, Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 27 2012-Nov. 3 2012

Firstpage

83

Lastpage

85

Abstract

Muon tomography with cosmic ray muons is a novel technology for high-Z material detection. The tomographic imaging is based on multiple coulomb scattering of cosmic ray muons in matter, which requires large-scale, high-efficiency, high spatial resolution detectors for tracking of incoming and outgoing muons. From previous studies, the multi-gap resistive plate chamber (MRPC) would be an excellent and inexpensive choice for this application, which also offers the possibility of introducing energy information of muons by TOF measurement for image reconstruction of muon tomography. A prototype of muon tomography facility with 6 layers large-scale MRPC detectors has been designed and is under construction, the preliminary results of muon tomography and design details of the MRPC detectors and electronics were presented.

Keywords

cosmic ray muons; drift chambers; image reconstruction; optical tomography; MRPC; MRPC detector; TOF measurement; cosmic ray muons; electronics; high-Z material detection; image reconstruction; multigap resistive plate chamber; multiple coulomb scattering; muon energy information; muon tomography facility; tomographic imaging;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

ISSN

1082-3654

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2028-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2012.6551065

Filename

6551065