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Muon radiography is a nondestructive imaging technology based on the naturally existing cosmic ray muons. Because cosmic ray muons have the strong ability to penetrate, muon radiography in which the absorption of muons through matter is utilized, is especially suitable for the imaging of large-scale objects. While the traditional geophysical technologies used in archeology have some limitations, muon radiography is expected to become a powerful supplement in the nondestructive detection of large-scale cultural relics. Based on Monte Carlo simulation method Geant4, the muon radiography of the underground palace of Qinshihuang Mausoleum is studied in this work. A model of the underground palace of Qinshihuang Mausoleum is set up with GEANT4 program according to the data acquired by the previous archaeological study of Qinshihuang Mausoleum’s inner structure, as well as a reference model without these inner structure. By investigating the differences between the muon fluxes obtained from the two models, the muon radiography image of the inner structure of the model can be obtained. During the simulation, the cosmic ray muon source is generated by sampling according to an empirical formula summarized by Reyna, which can accurately describe the energy spectrum and angular distribution of cosmic ray muons at sea level. In addition, two viewpoints are selected in order to determine the three-dimensional position of the chamber. The simulation data are processed by using an image reconstruction algorithm which can be described as the following three steps. Firstly, the counts of muons in different directions are converted into muon flux. Secondly, the muon flux of the reference model is deducted from that of the Qinshihuang Mausoleum model, and the angular coordinates of the chamber walls are determined. Finally, combined with the wall’s angular coordinates obtained from the two viewpoints and the relative position between the two viewpoints, the chamber size and its position are reconstructed according to the geometric relationship. The errors of the reconstructed chamber center position and the length of chamber walls are both approximately 7%. In this article, we conduct only a preliminary study of muon radiography applied to the nondestructive detection of Qinshihuang Mausoleum, but the results show that muon radiography can be a promising tool for the archeological study of Qinshihuang Mausoleum. In the follow-up study, more factors will be taken into consideration, including the details of Qinshihuang Mausoleum model, and the improvement of image reconstruction algorithm.
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Keywords:
- muon radiography /
- cosmic ray muon /
- Monte Carlo simulation
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图 2 测量点与ROI之间的几何关系示意图
Figure 2. Geometric relationship between viewpoint and ROI.
图 3 秦始皇陵模型示意图 (a) 模型1内部结构示意图; (a1) 模型1俯视图; (a2) 模型1正视图; (a3) 模型1剖面3示意图; (a4) 模型1剖面1示意图; (b) 模型2示意图(无内部结构);
Figure 3. Model of Qinshihuang Mausoleum: (a) Inner structure of Model 1; (a1) top view of Model 1; (a2) front view of Model 1; (a3) profile 3 of Model 1; (a4) profile 1 of Model 1; (b) Model 2 (no inner structure).
图 4 根据Reyna公式抽样产生的1000万个μ子的动量和天顶角分布 (a) μ子数量随μ子动量变化分布; (b) μ子数量随μ子速度方向的天顶角变化分布
Figure 4. Momentum spectrum and zenith angle distribution of the 10 million muons sampled by Reyna formula: (a) Momentum spectrum of the sampled muons; (b) zenith angle distribution of the sampled muons.
图 5 两个测量点得到的
$ f(\theta, \varphi ) $ 的二维投影图 (a)测量点1的$ f(\theta, \varphi ) $ 投影图, 其中,$ {\rm{t}\rm{a}\rm{n}}{\theta }_{x}={\rm{t}\rm{a}\rm{n}}\theta {\rm{c}}{\rm{o}}{\rm{s}} \varphi $ ,${\rm{t}\rm{a}\rm{n}}{\theta }_{y}= $ $ {\rm{t}\rm{a}\rm{n}}\theta {\rm{s}}\rm{i}\rm{n} \varphi$ ; (b)测量点2的$ f(\theta, \varphi ) $ 投影图Figure 5. Two-dimensional projection of
$ f\left(\theta, \varphi \right) $ obtained at viewpoint 1 and 2: (a) Distribution of$ f\left(\theta, \varphi \right) $ obtained at viewpoint 1, where the$ {\rm{t}\rm{a}\rm{n}}{\theta }_{x}={\rm{t}\rm{a}\rm{n}}\theta {\rm{c}}{\rm{o}}{\rm{s}} \varphi $ ,$ {\rm{t}\rm{a}\rm{n}}{\theta }_{y}={\rm{t}\rm{a}\rm{n}}\theta {\rm{s}}\rm{i}\rm{n} \varphi $ ; (b) distribution of$ f\left(\theta, \varphi \right) $ obtained at viewpoint 2.
图 6 墓室三维重建结果 (a) 剖面1处重建结果; (b)剖面2处重建结果
Figure 6. Three-dimensional reconstruction results of the chamber: (a) Reconstruction result at Profile 1; (b) reconstruction result at Profile 2
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[1] Amenomori M, Bao Y W, Bi X J, et al. 2019 Phys. Rev. Lett. 123 51101
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[5] George E P 1955 Commonw. Eng. 1955 455
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Jiang H Y, Zhang L M 1997 Chin. J. Geophys. 40 383
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Zong X, Wang X Y, Liu C S, Luo L 2016 J. Geo-Information Science 18 273
[18] 林金鑫 2011 博士学位论文 (杭州: 浙江大学)
Lin X J 2011 Ph. D. Dissertation (Hangzhou: Zhejiang University) (in Chinese)
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Yu G M, Wang S M, Wang B B, et al. 2005 Geophysical Exploration for the Underground Palace of Emperor Qinshihuang Mausoleum (Beijing: Geological Publishing House) pp17–58 (in Chinese)
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