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? p g electron proton muon
electron muon proton
Why ECC?
Why Radiography? Seismic Magnetoteluric Geodetic Gravimetric
Type of Volcano Vulcanian Mt. Asama Dome Mt. Usu
Mt. Asama
Result in Asama ECC Muon Detector
Mt. Usu
Result in Usu
Geodetic Model of Usu
Yokoyama 2002
Other type of volcanoes Strombolian Satsuma Iwojima convection degassing Gas of t/day
Satsuma Iwojima (future observation) ECC
Future Prospects 3 d tomography real time monitoring faster scanning system ECC
Summary Portable Power free Simple High resolution Acknowledgements: K. Niwa, T. Nakano, S. Takahashi, J. Yoshida, Nagoya University University of Tokyo Hokkaido University