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Cosmic-ray muon radiography of volcanoes with emulsion cloud chambers. Hiroyuki Tanaka ERI University of Tokyo. The 3rd International Workshop on Nuclear Emulsion Techniques - Modern techniques of nuclear emulsion and their applications -. Principle. muon. Why Muon?. muon. p. g.
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Cosmic-ray muon radiography of volcanoes with emulsion cloud chambers Hiroyuki Tanaka ERI University of Tokyo The 3rd International Workshop on Nuclear Emulsion Techniques - Modern techniques of nuclear emulsion and their applications -
Principle muon
Why Muon? muon p g electron proton
electron muon proton
Why Radiography? Seismic Magnetoteluric Gravimetric Geodetic
Type of Volcano • Vulcanian • Mt. Asama • Dome • Mt. Usu
Mt. Asama Mt. Asama
Result in Asama ECC Muon Detector
Mt. Usu Mt. Usu
Other type of volcanoes • Strombolian • Satsuma Iwojima Gas of 16000 t/day degassing convection
Future Prospects • 3d tomography • real time monitoring • faster scanning system ECC ECC
Summary • Portable • Power free • Simple • High resolution Acknowledgements: K. Niwa, T. Nakano, S. Takahashi, J. Yoshida, Nagoya University University of Tokyo Hokkaido University