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As for other intraplate basaltic volcanoes, Piton de la Fournaise volcano sis- micity occurs without any tectonic regional control. The eruptive processes along...

The project TOMUVOL, aimed at developing a method for muonic tomography of volcanic edifices, has chosen the Puy de Dôme as an experimental test site. In fact, this...

The main source of background for the radiography of volcanoes with atmospheric muons comes from the accidental coincidences produced in the telescopes by the...

The quantitative interpretation of the imaging of large structures using the atmospheric muon flux depends on the details of the muon energy spectrum and angular...

High energy (10^11+ eV) atmospheric muons are a natural probe for geophysical studies. They can travel through hundreds to kilometers of rocks allowing for a...

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Piton de la Fournaise volcano (La Reunion Island) due to its crater collapse of April 2007 which created 200m to 300-m-high sub-vertical cliffs in a matter of minutes...

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Since 2010 particle physicists and geoscientists have been collaborating within the ToMuVol project for developing density imaging of volcanoes with atmospheric muons....

evolution of the news about the eruptions of the volcano Vesuvius in the press in french language : construction of knowledge, beginning of catastrophism.

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