Development of a portable assembly-type cosmic-ray muon module for measuring the density structure of a column of magma

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 119-129

  Tanaka, Hiroyuki K M ^a   Uchida, Tomohisa ^a   Tanaka, Manobu ^b   Shinohara, Hiroshi ^c   Taira, Hideaki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF PARTICLE AND NUCLEAR STUDIES   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cosmic ray muon module; Density path variation; Density structure; Solid body; Time dependent muon absorption

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; COSMIC RAY; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; MAGMA; MEASUREMENT METHOD; VOLCANO;

JAPAN; KAGOSHIMA [KYUSHU]; KYUSHU; RYUKYU ISLANDS; SATSUMA-IWOJIMA;

EID: 77950655853     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5047/eps.2009.06.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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