Design and characterization of a small muon tomography system

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• 作者：Woo Jin Jo (1)
  Su Jung An (1)
  Hyun-Il Kim (1)
  Chae Young Lee (1)
  Heejun Chung (1)
  Yong Hyun Chung (1)
  
  1. Department of Radiological Science ; Yonsei University ; Wonju ; 220-710 ; Korea
  
• 关键词：Muon tomography ; Plastic scintillator ; Wavelength ; shifting fiber ; Z ; discrimination
• 刊名：Journal of the Korean Physical Society
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：February 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：66
• 期：4
• 页码：585-591
• 全文大小：1,172 KB
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• 刊物主题：Physics, general; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics; Particle and Nuclear Physics;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1976-8524

文摘

Muon tomography is a useful method for monitoring special nuclear materials (SNMs) because it can provide effective information on the presence of high-Z materials, has a high enough energy to deeply penetrate large amounts of shielding, and does not lead to any health risks and danger above background. We developed a 2-D muon detector and designed a muon tomography system employing four detector modules. Two top and two bottom detectors are, respectively, employed to record the incident and the scattered muon trajectories. The detector module for the muon tomography system consists of a plastic scintillator, wavelength-shifting (WLS) fiber arrays placed orthogonally on the top and the bottom of the scintillator, and a position-sensitive photomultiplier (PSPMT). The WLS fiber arrays absorb light photons emitted by the plastic scintillator and re-emit green lights guided to the PSPMT. The light distribution among the WLS fiber arrays determines the position of the muon interaction; consequently, 3-D tomographic images can be obtained by extracting the crossing points of the individual muon trajectories by using a point-of-closest-approach algorithm. The goal of this study is to optimize the design parameters of a muon tomography system by using the Geant4 code and to experimentally evaluate the performance of the prototype detector. Images obtained by the prototype detector with a 420-nm laser light source showed good agreement with the simulation results. This indicates that the proposed detector is feasible for use in a muon tomography system and can be used to verify the Z-discrimination capability of the muon tomography system.