RUI:Collaboration for Studies of Cosmic Ray Muon Radiation and its Application to Archaeometry

RUI：宇宙射线μ子辐射研究及其在考古学中的应用合作

• 批准号: 2011339
• 负责人: Edmundo Garcia-Solis
• 金额: $ 35.47万
• 依托单位: Chicago State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-11-15 至 2025-10-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2011339&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; Collaboration; Studies; Cosmic; Ray

This award supports a project of research and education in experimental physics and archaeometry. The project's goal is to develop hardware, electronics, and data analysis tools to measure the quantity and direction of the atmospheric muons that go through archaeological structures. These measurements will allow the mapping of cavities inside these structures. Using this technique, the project team will explore El Castillo pyramid and Las Monjas in Chichen Itza. The applications of muon radiography go beyond archaeometry. It can be used in geology (to monitor the lava domes inside volcanos), in national security (to determine the presence of the heavy materials inside containers), in industry (to image the inner structure of inaccessible structures, like nuclear reactors), etc. The funding for this award contributes to the advancement of the technology that promotes these applications. In addition, recruiting, retaining, and educating science and mathematics students and teachers is critical to advancing scientific literacy, maintaining economic growth, and continuing scientific discoveries. This project will involve students from Chicago State University, a Predominantly Black Institution, and Dominican University, a Hispanic Serving Institution. Thus, it will advance the participation of groups traditionally underrepresented in STEM disciplines. The development of non-intrusive remote sensing techniques has been one of the great interdisciplinary successes of archaeometry. Ground-penetrating radar and electrical resistivity tomography are examples that are mostly used for subsurface explorations. The group will build imaging capabilities using a complementary technique: the measurements of the distribution of the muon flux from cosmic ray muons through archeological structures. The tracker detector that the team will build with this award will locate variations in the density in regions as small as one cubic meter situated at any position inside a large structure. El Castillo pyramid is ideal for implementing the capabilities of muon detection. It has two substructures; the first substructure presents two known chambers; the second substructure remains un-excavated and could expose other chambers. The interior of the pyramid is granted by two base tunnels that can house the detector. The three-dimensional density mapping of El Castillo will impact the architectural understanding of this pyramid and set the basis for further archaeological explorations. The group will also investigate the Las Monjas building; this smaller, less studied construction may also have undiscovered chambers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项支持实验物理和考古学研究的研究和教育项目。该项目的目标是开发硬件，电子和数据分析工具，以衡量通过考古结构的大气压的数量和方向。这些测量将允许在这些结构内的腔体映射。使用此技术，项目团队将探索Chichen Itza中的El Castillo Pyramid和Las Monjas。 MUON射线照相的应用超出了考古测定法。它可用于地质（用于监测火山内的熔岩圆顶），国家安全（确定集装箱内部的重物的存在），在工业中（图像不可接近的结构的内部结构，例如核反应堆），等等。该奖项的资金有助于促进这些应用的技术的进步。 此外，招募，保留和教育科学和数学学生和教师对于提高科学素养，维持经济增长和持续的科学发现至关重要。该项目将涉及芝加哥州立大学的学生，这是一个主要是黑人机构，以及西班牙裔服务机构多米尼加大学。因此，它将推动传统上属于STEM学科中代表性不足的群体的参与。非侵入性遥感技术的发展一直是考古计量学的巨大跨学科成功之一。地面穿透雷达和电阻率断层扫描是大多用于地下探索的示例。该小组将使用互补技术构建成像功能：通过考古结构从宇宙射线MUONS中的MUON通量分布的测量值。该团队将在此奖项中建造的跟踪器探测器将在大型结构内的任何位置都位于一个小至一个立方米的区域中的密度变化。 El Castillo金字塔非常适合实施MUON检测能力。它有两个子结构；第一个子结构提出了两个已知的房间。第二个子结构仍然没有挖掘，并可能暴露其他房间。金字塔的内部由两个可以容纳探测器的基本隧道授予。 El Castillo的三维密度映射将影响对这种金字塔的建筑理解，并为进一步的考古探索树立了基础。该组织还将调查Las Monjas大楼；这个较小，研究较少的建筑可能也可能没有被发现。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，被认为值得通过评估获得支持。