Muography is an imaging technique that produces a projectional image of a target volume by recording elementary particles, called muons, either electronically or chemically with materials that are sensitive to charged particles such as nuclear emulsions. Cosmic rays from outer space generate muons in the Earth’s atmosphere as a result of nuclear reactions between primary cosmic rays and atmospheric nuclei. They are highly penetrative and millions of muons pass through our bodies every day. NISER is in collaboration with Université Catholique de Louvain to develop RPC based muography devices.
The Large Area Picosecond Photo-Detector (LAPPDTM) is a microchannel plate (MCP) based planar photodetector that has single-photon sensitivity, millimeter level spatial and picosecond level temporal resolutions and an active area of upto 400 square centimeters.
These detectors manufactured by Incom, Inc., USA are commercially new and can be used for making imaging devices.
