{"id":119246,"date":"2021-02-06T17:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T01:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/a-full-scale-prototype-for-muon-tomography"},"modified":"2021-02-06T17:22:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T01:22:37","slug":"a-full-scale-prototype-for-muon-tomography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/a-full-scale-prototype-for-muon-tomography","title":{"rendered":"A full-scale prototype for muon tomography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-full-scale-prototype-for-muon-tomography.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each year, billions of tons of goods are transported globally using cargo containers. Currently, there are concerns that this immense volume of traffic could be exploited to transport illicit nuclear materials, with little chance of detection. One promising approach to combating this issue is to measure how goods interact with charged particles named muons\u2014which form naturally as cosmic rays interact with Earth\u2019s atmosphere. Studies worldwide have now explored how this technique, named \u201cmuon tomography,\u201d can be achieved through a variety of detection technologies and reconstruction algorithms. In this article of <i>EPJ Plus<\/i>, a team headed by Francesco Riggi at the University of Catania, Italy, build on these results to develop a full-scale muon tomograph prototype.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, billions of tons of goods are transported globally using cargo containers. Currently, there are concerns that this immense volume of traffic could be exploited to transport illicit nuclear materials, with little chance of detection. One promising approach to combating this issue is to measure how goods interact with charged particles named muons\u2014which form [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}