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Cosmic-ray muons, produced in the atmosphere and able to penetrate hundreds of meters of rock, provide a powerful non-invasive probe to image the interior of large and dense objects. Muography exploits both muon attenuation and multiple Coulomb scattering to reconstruct density distributions, with use cases ranging from volcanology to archaeology and cargo inspection. This colloquium will introduce the physical principles at the basis of this new application of HEP detectors and analysis techniques, review some success stories, and present the activities of the CP3 muography team. Finally, this talk will outline the main challenges of this emerging field, such as low flux and environmental systematics, and discuss future perspectives, including our first steps toward exploiting muons from laser-plasma accelerated electron beams as a complementary imaging source.
Videoconference via https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83401029240