Imaging of high-Z material for nuclear contraband detection with a minimal prototype of a muon tomography station based on GEM detectors

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 652, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 16-20

  Gnanvo, Kondo ^a   Grasso III, Leonard V ^a   Hohlmann, Marcus ^a   Locke, Judson B ^a   Quintero, Amilkar ^a   Mitra, Debasis ^a  

^a Florida Institute of Technology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

GEM detector; High Z materials; MPGD; Multiple scattering; Muon Tomography

Indexed keywords

CONTRABAND DETECTION; COSMIC-RAY MUONS; GAS ELECTRON MULTIPLIERS; GASEOUS DETECTORS; GEM DETECTORS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH-Z MATERIAL; MICRO PATTERN; MPGD; OPTIMAL TRACKING; POSITION-SENSITIVE DETECTORS; TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING; Z VALUE;

CHARGED PARTICLES; COSMIC RAYS; COSMOLOGY; ELECTRON MULTIPLIERS; MULTIPLE SCATTERING; PLASMA THEORY; PLUTONIUM; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; RADIOACTIVITY; TOMOGRAPHY;

DETECTORS;

EID: 80052925424     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2011.01.163     Document Type: Conference Paper

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