Muography Exploring Earth's Subsurface with Elementary Particles

A technique for visualizing Earth's subsurface at high resolution

Hidden out of sight in Earth’s subsurface are a range of geophysical structures, processes, and material movements. Muography is a passive and non-destructive remote sensing technique that visualizes  the internal structure of solid geological structures at high resolution, similar in process to X-ray radiography of human bodies.

Muography: Exploring Earth's Subsurface with Elementary Particles explores the application of this imaging technique in the geosciences and how it can complement conventional geophysical observations.

Volume highlights include:

• Principles of muography and pioneering works in the field
• Different approaches for muographic image processing
• Observing volcanic structures and activity with muography
• Using muography for geophysical exploration and mining engineering
• Potential environmental applications of muography
• Latest technological developments in muography

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László Oláh, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Hiroyuki K. M. Tanaka, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Dezső Varga, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Hungary

List of Contributors

Preface

1. Principles of Muography and Pioneering Works
Hiroyuki K. M. Tanaka

Part I: Muographic Image Processing

2. Tomographic Imaging of Volcano Structures with Cosmic-ray Muons
Seigo Miyamoto and Shogo Nagahara

3. Joint Inversion of Muography and Gravity Data for 3D Density Imaging of Volcanoes
Ryuichi Nishiyama

4. Machine Learning with Muographic Images as Input: An Application to Volcano Eruption Forecasting
László Oláh and Hiroyuki K. M. Tanaka

Part II: Muography for Volcanic Investigations

5. Observation of the Dynamics of Hydrothermal Activity in La Soufrière of Guadeloupe Volcano with Joint Muography, Gravimetry, Electrical Resistivity Tomography, Seismic and Temperature Monitoring
Dominique Gibert, Jean de Bremond d'Ars, Bruno Carlus, Sébastien Deroussi, Jean-Christophe Ianigro, David Jessop, Kevin Jourde, Bruno Kergosien, Yves Le Gonidec, Nolwenn Lesparre, Jacques Marteau, Roberto Moretti, Florence Nicollin, and Marina Rosas-Carbajal

6. Structure of the Shallow Supply System at Stromboli Volcano Through Integration of Muography, Digital Elevation Models, Seismicity and Ground Deformation Data
Valeri Tioukov, Flora Giudicepietro, Giovanni Macedonio, Sonia Calvari, Frederico Di Traglia, Alessandro Fornaciai, and Massimiliano Favalli

7. Three Years of Muography at Mount Etna: Results and Interpretation
Domenico Lo Presti, Giuseppe Gallo, Danilo Luigi Bonanno, Giovanni Bonanno, Carmelo Ferlito, Paola La Rocca, Santo Reito, Fracesco Riggi, and Giuseppe Romeo

8. Muography of Magma Intrusion Beneath the Active Craters of Sakurajima Volcano
László Oláh and Hiroyuki K. M. Tanaka

9. Muography of the Volcanic Structure of the Summit of Vesuvius
Giovanni Macedonio, Giulio Saracino, Fabio Ambrosino, Guglielmo Baccani, Lorenzo Bonechi, Alan Bross, Massimo Bongi, Antonio Caputo, Roberto Ciaranfi, Luigi Cimmino, Vitaliano Ciulli, Rafaello D'Alessandro, Mariaelena D'Errico, Flora Giudicepietro, Sandro Gonzi, Vincenzo Masone, Nicola Mori, Pasquale Nori, Massimo Orazi, Giuseppe Passeggio, Rosario Peluso, Anna Pla-Dalmau, Giovanni Scarpato, Paolo Strolin, Enrico Vertechi, and Lorenzo Viliani

Part III: Muography for Environmental Applications

10. Water Resource Management: the Multi-Technique Approach of the Low Background Noise Underground Research Laboratory of Rustrel, France, and Its Muon Detection Projects
Ignacio Lázaro Roche, Sylvain Pasquet, Konstantinos Chalikakis, Naomi Mazzilli, Marina Rosas-Carbajal, Jean-Baptiste Decitre, Leila Serene, Christelle Batiot-Guilhe, Christophe Emblanch, Jacques Marteau, and Stéphane Gaffet

11. Exploration of Underground Cave Systems with Muography
Gergõ Hamar, Gergely Surányi, László Oláh, and Dezsõ Varga

12. Detection and 3D Reconstruction of Cavities Inside Mount Echia
Giulio Saracino, Fabio Ambrosino, Guglielmo Baccani, Lorenzo Bonechi, Luigi Cimmino, Rafaello D'Alessandro, Mariaelena D'Errico, and Paolo Strolin

13. Exploration of Hidden Topography Beneath Alpine Glaciers with Muography
Paola Scampoli, Ryuichi Nishiyama, Akitaka Ariga, Tomoko Ariga, Antonio Ereditato, Alessandro Lechmann, David Mair, Fritz Schlunegger, and Mykhailo Vladymyrov

14. Muography, a Key Technology for Monitoring Carbon Geostorage
Lee F. Thompson, Jon G. Gluyas, Joel Klinger, Vitaly A. Kudryavtsev, Darren L. Lincoln, David Woodward, and Max L. Coleman

15. Future Prospects of Muography for Geological Research and Geotechnical and Mining Engineering
Marko Holma, Zongxian Zhang, Pasi Kuusiniemi, Kai Loo, and Timo Enqvist

16. Muon Tomography for Underground Resources
Douglas Schouten, Donald Furseth, and Jacobus van Nieuwkoop

Part IV: Next Generation Muography

17.  Development of Scintillator-based Muon Detectors for Muography
Jacques Marteau, Jean de Bremond d'Ars, Bruno Carlus, Antoine Chevalier, Amélie Cohu, Thierry Descombes, Dominique Gibert, Jean-Christophe Ianigro, Kevin Jourde, Bruno Kergosien, Nolwenn Lesparre, Jean-Luc Montorio, and Marina Rosas-Carbajal

18. Resistive Plate Chambers in Muography
Andrea Giammanco, Sofia Andringa, Eduardo Cortina Gil, and Michael Tytgat

19. Development of Multi-Wire Proportional Chamber-based Trackers for Muography
Dezsõ Varga, Gergõ Hamar, and László Oláh

20. Development of Micro-Pattern Gaseous Detectors for Muography
Simon Bouteille and Sébastien Procureur

21. Development of Nuclear Emulsions for Muography
Kunihiro Morishima, Nobuko Kitagawa, and Akira Nishio

Index

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