Towards a muon radiography of the Puy de Dome

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 radiography of the density distributions within large structures, the like mountains or volcanoes. A collaboration between volcanologists, astroparticle- and particle physicists, TOMUVOL, has been formed in 2009 to study tomographic muon imaging of volcanoes with high-resolution, large-scale tracking detectors. We report on two campaigns of radiographic measurements of the Puy de Dôme using Glass Resistive Plate Chambers (GRPCs) developped for Particle Physics R&D, within the CALICE collaboration.

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Source International Workshop on "Muon and Neutrino Radiography 2012"
Author Niess, V.
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 15, 2026, 12:52 (UTC)
Created May 15, 2026, 12:52 (UTC)
Identifier in2p3-00770885
Language en
contributor Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire - Clermont-Ferrand (LPC) ; Université Blaise Pascal - Clermont-Ferrand 2 (UBP)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
coverage Clermont-Ferrand, France
creator Niess, V.
date 2012-04-17T00:00:00
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