• DocumentCode
    2545971
  • Title

    Forbush decrease of March 2012 detected using a commercially-available muon-tomography cargo scanner

  • Author

    Lehovich, Andre ; Blanpied, Gary S. ; Reed, Richard C. ; McKenney, Shawn C. ; Kurnadi, Priscilla P. ; Lam, Peter C. ; Sossong, Michael J.

  • Author_Institution
    Decision Sci. Int. Corp., Poway, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    Oct. 27 2012-Nov. 3 2012
  • Firstpage
    554
  • Lastpage
    556
  • Abstract
    Muon-tomography (MT) scanners are built and operated to detect the smuggling of contraband in cargo. Simultaneously with cargo scanning, MT systems can be used to measure naturally occurring changes in cosmic radiation. Our commercially-available MT system detected the decrease in muon flux following the 6 March 2012 coronal mass ejection. We discuss the practical implications for cargo scanning posed by variation in background cosmic radiation.
  • Keywords
    cosmic background radiation; cosmic ray muons; cosmic ray variations; muon detection; Forbush decrease; background cosmic radiation; contraband smuggling; coronal mass ejection; cosmic radiation; muon-tomography cargo scanner;
  • 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.2012.6551169
  • Filename
    6551169
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2545971