Preliminary research on application of muon energy measurement based on TOF for muon tomography

Author

Zhifei Luo ; Xuewu Wang ; Zhi Zeng ; Yi Wang ; Ming Zeng ; Ziran Zhao ; Jianping Cheng ; Hengguan Yi ; Baihui Yu ; Xiaoguang Yue ; Xingming Fan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Eng. Phys., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2013

fDate

Oct. 27 2013-Nov. 2 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

Cosmic-ray muon tomography based on multiple coulomb scattering is typically applied in detecting high-Z materials. The energy of muon also plays an important role in the distribution of the scattering angles, and the information of muon energy would be useful for the image reconstruction. In this paper, a simulation experiment has been conducted to check the feasibility of TOF method applied in measuring muon energy for muon tomography system. The simulation results have been discussed and some preliminary conclusions have also been drawn.

Keywords

cosmic ray apparatus; cosmic ray muons; image reconstruction; time of flight spectra; TOF; TOF method; cosmic-ray muon tomography; image reconstruction; multiple coulomb scattering; muon energy measurement; muon tomography; scattering angles; Detectors; Energy measurement; Energy resolution; Mesons; Scattering; Spatial resolution; Tomography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0533-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NSSMIC.2013.6829785

Filename

6829785