Bonomi et al., 2020 - Google Patents
Applications of cosmic-ray muonsBonomi et al., 2020
- Document ID
- 9960969799255077128
- Author
- Bonomi G
- Checchia P
- D’Errico M
- Pagano D
- Saracino G
- Publication year
- Publication venue
- Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
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Applications of cosmic-ray muons have grown in numbers in the last decades. This was possible thanks to the development of detectors and techniques employed in particle and nuclear physics. Indeed the first famous application, the scanning of the Chephren's …
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