Multidisciplinary applications of muon radiography using the MIMA detector

Bonechi, L.; Baccani, Guglielmo; Bongi, M.; Brocchini, Debora; Ciaranfi, R.; Cimmino, Luigi; Ciulli, V.; D’Alessandro, R.; Ventisette, Chiara Del; D’Errico, M.; Dini, Andréa; Gigli, Giovanni; Gonzi, S.; Guideri, S.; Lombardi, Luca; Mori, N.; Nocentini, Massimiliano; Starodubtsev, O.; Pazzi, Veronica; Saracino, G.; Strolin, P.; Viliani, L.

doi:10.1088/1748-0221/15/05/c05030

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“…The main evaluations concerning the feasibility of the experiment have been finalized thanks to a simulation tool already available to the team and successfully used for previous studies related 2022 JINST 17 C04031 to measurements carried out at the Temperino mine in Campiglia Marittima, near Livorno (Italy) [4][5][6], at the Bourbon Gallery in Naples [3] (Italy) and at river embankments near Florence and Pistoia [7] (Italy). In general all simulations for muographic applications require the knowledge of the target material thickness l(θ, φ) and its average density ρ(θ, φ) as seen from the hypothetical detector's installation position along all directions in its field of view, defined by the zenith (θ) and azimuth (φ) angles.…”

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BLEMAB European project: muon imaging technique applied to blast furnaces

Bonechi¹,

Ambrosino²,

Andreetto³

et al. 2022

J. Inst.

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The BLEMAB European project (BLast furnace stack density Estimation through on-line Muon ABsorption measurements), evolution of the previous Mu-Blast European project, is designed to investigate in detail the capability of muon radiography techniques applied to the imaging of a blast furnace’s inner zone. In particular, the geometry and size of the so called “cohesive zone”, i.e. the spatial zone where the slowly downward moving material begins to soften and melt, that plays an important role in the performance of the blast furnace itself. Thanks to the high penetration power of the natural cosmic ray muon radiation, muon transmission radiography represents an appropriate non-invasive methodology for imaging large high-density structures such as blast furnaces, whose linear size can be up to a few tens of meters. A state-of-the-art muon tracking system, whose design profits from the long experience of our collaboration in this field, is currently under development and will be installed in 2022 at a blast furnace on the ArcelorMittal site in Bremen (Germany) for many months. Collected data will be exploited to monitor temporal variations of the average density distribution inside the furnace. Muon radiography results will also be compared with measurements obtained through an enhanced multipoint probe and standard blast furnace models.

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BLEMAB European project: muon imaging technique applied to blast furnaces

Bonechi¹,

Ambrosino²,

Andreetto³

et al. 2022

J. Inst.

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“…A preliminary simulation has been carried out with a fast and simplified custom tool that has successfully been used by the team involved in the BLEMAB project for many applications of the MTR technique in the field of geology [31,32,33], archaeology [34], and civil engineering [35]. This simulation tool requires the knowledge of the material thickness l(θ, φ) seen from the detector's installation position along each direction defined by the zenith and azimuth angles and the estimated average density ρ of the JAIS-272, 2022 traversed medium.…”

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Imaging of the Inner Zone of Blast Furnaces Using Muon Radiography: The BLEMAB Project

Gonzi¹,

Ambrosino²,

Andreetto³

et al. 2022

JAIS

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The aim of the BLEMAB project (BLast furnace stack density Estimation through online Muons ABsorption measurements) is the application of muon radiography techniques, to image a blast furnace's inner zone. In particular, the goal of the study is to characterize the geometry and size of the so-called "cohesive zone", i.e., the spatial region where the slowly downward-moving material begins to soften and melt, which plays such an important role in the performance of the blast furnace itself. Thanks to the high penetration power of natural cosmic-ray muon radiation, muon transmission radiography could be an appropriate non invasive methodology for the imaging of large high-density structures such as a blast furnace, whose linear dimensions can be up to a few tens of meters. A state-of-the-art muon tracking system is currently in development and will be installed at a blast furnace on the ArcelorMittal site in Bremen (Germany), where it will collect data for a period of various months. In this paper, the status of the project and the expectations based on preliminary simulations are presented and briefly discussed.

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“…The standard GGS components have been efficiently integrated with custom components specifically developed for muon radiography [27], demonstrating the validity of the development approach described in section 2 despite GGS having later been replaced by PUMAS [28] as the simulation framework of choice for the collaboration. However, other small muon radiography projects ( [29,30]), have been able to profit from the GGS development work done for MURAVES and are still using GGS.…”

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GGS: A Generic Geant4 Simulation package for small- and medium-sized particle detection experiments

Mori

2021

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A:

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The Generic Geant4 Simulation (GGS) is a package designed to speed-up the realization and deployment of Monte Carlo simulation software based on Geant4, for small-and medium-sized high-energy experiments. For many common use cases, the task of setting up a full-featured simulation of the detector is reduced to the definition of the detector geometry, by providing generic and reusable implementations of the mandatory Geant4 user classes (particle generation, scoring, output etc.). Extensibility is provided by a simple plugin system that allows replacing of the generic implementations distributed with GGS with custom ones. These features make it especially suitable for cases where limited manpower, like during preliminary detector design studies, can severely limit the scope of an R&D program.

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Multidisciplinary applications of muon radiography using the MIMA detector

Cited by 9 publications

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BLEMAB European project: muon imaging technique applied to blast furnaces

BLEMAB European project: muon imaging technique applied to blast furnaces

Imaging of the Inner Zone of Blast Furnaces Using Muon Radiography: The BLEMAB Project

GGS: A Generic Geant4 Simulation package for small- and medium-sized particle detection experiments

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