2022/02/16 by A. Bross, E. C. Dukes, Bross, Alan D. +29
Physics and Astronomy · #Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph) #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #FOS: Electrical engineering #FOS: Physical sciences #Image and Video Processing (eess.IV) #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Particle Detector Development and Performance #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2202.08184
openalex publication_date 2022/02/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The pyramids of the Giza plateau have fascinated visitors since ancient times and are the last of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world still standing. It has been half a century since Luiz Alvarez and his team used cosmic-ray muon imaging to look for hidden chambers in Khafres Pyramid. Advances in instrumentation for High-Energy Physics (HEP) allowed a new survey, ScanPyramids, to make important new discoveries at the Great Pyramid (Khufu) utilizing the same basic technique that the Alvarez team used, but now with modern instrumentation. The Exploring the Great Pyramid Mission plans to field a very-large muon telescope system that will be transformational with respect to the field of cosmic-ray muon imaging. We plan to field a telescope system that has upwards of 100 times the sensitivity of the equipment that has recently been used at the Great Pyramid, will image muons from nearly all angles and will, for the first time, produce a true tomographic image of such a large structure.