%0 Journal Article
%T CCC-based muon telescope for examination of natural caves
%A L. Ol¨˘h
%A G. G. Barnaf ldi
%A G. Hamar
%A H. G. Melegh
%A G. Sur¨˘nyi
%A D. Varga
%J Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems (GI) & Discussions (GID)
%D 2012
%I Copernicus Publications
%R 10.5194/gi-1-229-2012
%X A portable cosmic muon detector has been developed for geophysical applications: searching for large scale underground rock/soil inhomogeneities and underground cavities. The designed muon telescope called a muon tomograph is based on the recently developed closed cathode chamber (CCC) technology, which provides a cheap, easy handling, portable, and power efficient detector system able to work even in extreme conditions (e.g. high humidity, low/high temperature). The muon telescope has a detection surface of approximately 0.1 m2 with a 10 mrad angular resolution. Tests have been performed in natural caves and artificial tunnel systems as well. In this paper a summary of the first results on tomographic cavities are presented and the geophysical and possible industrial use of the cosmic muon tomographic technology is indicated.
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