Applications: muon decay, space weather, muography
Applications
Do you know that we can use the atmospheric radiation background to study volcanoes, prospect for minerals or how the power grids can be disturbed by Solar activity?
In this lecture, you will learn about some of the possible applications we are developing in LAGO in geophysics.
Muography
Muography is a non-invasive technique for scanning anthropic and geologic structures. Its applications cover several fields: container inspection, archaeological building scanning, nuclear plant examination, nuclear waste monitoring, underground cavities, overburden of railway tunnels, and volcanology. The measured flux or atmospheric muons traversing the studied object gives information about the inner density distribution of the structure.
Muography applications, after: Kaiser, R. (2019). Muography: overview and future directions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 377(2137), 20180049. DOI:10.1098/rsta.2018.0049.
Learning activities
Applications of CR
In this lecture (currently in Spanish as it is mainly intended for Latin American students) you will learn some of the possible applications for calculating and measuring the atmospheric radiation background produced by cosmic rays.
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