Thompson, L.F. orcid.org/0000-0001-6911-4776, Stowell, J.P., Fargher, S.J. et al. (6 more authors) (2020) The application of muon tomography to the imaging of railway tunnels. PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH, 2. 023017. ISSN 2643-1564
Abstract
Cosmic ray muon radiography utilizes highly penetrating cosmic ray muons to image the density profile of an object of interest. Here we report on a trial to use a portable field-deployable cosmic ray muon tracking system in order to image the whole overburden of a UK railway tunnel with short-duration scans (c. 30 min). An unknown overburden void was identified and, after trial, confirmed by railway authorities. These experiments demonstrate the identification of hidden construction shafts with high levels of statistical significance as density anomalies within the data.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Physics and Astronomy (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 18 May 2020 10:30 |
Last Modified: | 18 May 2020 10:30 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.023017 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:160872 |