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Title: | The Muon Portal Project: Design and construction of a scanning portal based on muon tomography | Authors: | ANTONUCCIO, Vincenzo Bandieramonte, M. BECCIANI, Ugo Bonanno, D. L. BONANNO, Giovanni Bongiovanni, D. Fallica, P. G. GAROZZO, Salvatore GRILLO, ALESSANDRO La Rocca, P. Leonora, E. Longhitano, F. Lo Presti, D. MARANO, DAVIDE Parasole, O. Pugliatti, C. Randazzo, N. Riggi, F. RIGGI, Simone ROMEO, Giuseppe Romeo, M. Russo, G. V. Santagati, G. Timpanaro, M. C. Valvo, G. |
Issue Date: | 2017 | Journal: | NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH. SECTION A, ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT | Number: | 845 | First Page: | 322 | Abstract: | Cosmic ray tomography is a technique which exploits the multiple Coulomb scattering of highly penetrating cosmic ray-produced muons to perform non-destructive inspection of high-Z materials without the use of artificial radiation. A muon tomography detection system can be used as a portal monitor at border crossing points for detecting illegal targeted objects. The Muon Portal Project is a joint initiative between Italian research and industrial partners, aimed at the construction of a real size detector prototype (6×3×7 m<SUP>3</SUP>) for the inspection of cargo containers by the muon scattering technique. The detector consists of four XY tracking planes, two placed above and two below the container to be inspected. After a research and development phase, which led to the choice and test of the individual components, the construction and installation of the detection modules is almost completed. In this paper the present status of the Project is reported, focusing on the design and construction phase, as well as on the preliminary results obtained with the first detection planes. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/26520 | URL: | https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168900216303631?via%3Dihub | ISSN: | 0168-9002 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.nima.2016.05.006 | Bibcode ADS: | 2017NIMPA.845..322A | Fulltext: | open |
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