How to use cosmic rays in the study of geosciences and archaeology

The technology developed to study fundamental physics can be applied to the development of frameworks that may have a significant impact on society. The Atmospheric Muons have unique potential to probe structures and provide insight in a series of issues, ranging from volcano live monitoring to applications in archaeology or use for non- invasive and non-destructive control processes in the industry.

Muography is an innovative technique using secondary cosmic rays produced in the atmosphere, the most energetic of which have the property to cross ordinary matter over relevant distances (from meters to kilometers). The detection of those particles after any type of target allows therefore the characterization of the distribution and the density of the matter inside the target, as it is done for instance in medical imaging with X-rays. There is a strong societal impact of this technique, which is mostly passive and therefore adapted to any field of investigation: controls, risks assessment, hazards management.

In the framework of REINFORCE, citizens will be provided with open data detected with distributed networks of cosmic ray detectors and will contribute in performing inquiries at the interplay between cosmic ray research and its applications.

The webinar aims to give an overview of the Cosmic Muons Images Large Scale Citizen Science demonstrator and how it will be implemented in order to engage citizens in the scientific research, showcasing the tasks that citizens will be asked to perform and how their input will be fundamental to study geological phenomena and archaeology research by using Cosmic Rays.

Who should attend?
- Potential citizen scientists
- Cosmic Ray Physics researchers and academics
- Geophysics community
- Industrial partners

You will learn:
- How citizens can play an active role in the advance of ground-breaking research
- How the muography technique works
- How REINFORCE demonstrator about Cosmic Muons Images will be developed
- How the project will work to include diverse and underrepresented groups in science

Agenda
15:00 - 15:10: Welcome and introduction - Jacques Marteau (Deputy director of IP2I, WP6 responsible)
15:10 - 15:20: Muography: from basics to a new world of images - Jacques Marteau
15:20 - 15:30: Cosmic rays: from heaven to underground - Amélie Cohu (PhD in IP2I) & Matias Tramontini (PhD in UNLP)
15:30 - 15:40: Interdisciplinarity at work: volcanology & risks assessment with muons - Marina Rosas-Carbajal (Researcher in IPGP)
15:40 - 15:50: Because boring is not boring: an application of muography in civil engineering - Antoine Chevalier (Member of PULSALYS)
15:50 - 16:00: Muons in the particles zoo - Theodore Avgitas (REINFORCE post-doc in IP2I)
16:00 - 16:10: Q&A and wrap-up

REGISTER HERE: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wGB-afBLR5O9qkIYDhn72Q(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)