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Cosmic ray muon radiography

Schultz, 2003

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13819342122983841338
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Schultz L
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Highly penetrating cosmic ray muons shower the Earth at the rate of 10,000 per square meter per minute at sea level. A novel technique has been developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory which exploits the multiple Coulomb scattering of these particles for …
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