Elena Guardincerri: Tracking muons to reduce nuclear threats and help preserve architectural treasures

Del Mauro, Diana¹  Guardincerri, Elena¹ 

[1]Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)

关键词: muon tracking;    fissile detection;    muon multiple scattering tomography;    structural health monitoring;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1239924
RP-ID  :  LA--UR-16-21258
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1239924

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

When Elena Guardincerri was a physics PhD student at the University of Genova, she considered muons a nuisance. She built muon detectors to snare these secondary cosmic rays, which were interfering with her experiments to study elusive neutrinos.