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SUMMARY:Cosmic Ray Muography - Prof. Ralf Kaiser (University of Glasgow)
DTSTART:20200616T150000Z
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CONTACT:William Fawcett
DESCRIPTION:Muons are fundamental\, charged particles that form part of ou
 r naturally-occurring background radiation.  They are produced in particle
  showers in the upper atmosphere from the impact of cosmic rays.  These mu
 ons are incident at sea-level at a rate of about one per square centimetre
  per minute and with average energies of about 3 GeV -- approximately four
  orders of magnitude more than typical X-rays. Muons are highly penetratin
 g and can traverse hundreds of metres of rock\, which has opened up the po
 ssibility to use them for challenging imaging applications.  \n\nMuography
  is an established technique in volcanology\, it has been used to find a c
 avity in the pyramid of Khufu in Egypt and over the last years a wide vari
 ety of applications have been explored -- ranging from cargo screening to 
 nuclear waste characterisation and carbon storage monitoring.\n\nLynkeos T
 echnology is a spin-out company from the University of Glasgow\, founded i
 n 2016 following a 7-year\, £4.8M research programme funded by the NDA. T
 he Lynkeos Muon Imaging System is the worldwide first\, CE-marked muon ima
 ging system for the characterization of nuclear waste containers. It has b
 een successfully deployed on the Sellafield site in October 2018. \n\nThis
  talk will give an overview of muography applications worldwide and presen
 t the activities of Lynkeos Technology in detail\, with a focus on the cha
 racterization of nuclear waste containers.
LOCATION:Ryle Seminar Room (Rutherford 930) 
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