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AGA: Arbeitsgruppe Physik und Abrüstung

AGA 3: Fissile Materials and Detection

AGA 3.3: Vortrag

Donnerstag, 17. März 2022, 15:30–16:00, AGA-H19

Muons for Peace: Revisiting Cosmic Rays for Fissile Material Detection — •Moritz Kütt and Alexandra Datz — Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg

Over the last decades, researchers proposed several practical applications for muons created from cosmic rays. In the field of nuclear security, non-proliferation and disarmament, several groups simulated and tested muon tracker setups, mostly for inspection of cargo. This contribution revisits existing work, and outlines future research pathways. Going beyond the common approach of muon tomography, fissile material detection could benefit from muon telescopes and the detection of muon-induced reactions. The first method has applications for the demonstration of the absence of fissile material in large, inaccessible structures (e.g. concrete bunkers), the second could be used to provide new ways to authenticate fissile material.