For a useful, albeit technical introduction to muons and muography, see Lorenzo Bonechia, Raffaello D’Alessandro, and Andrea Giammanco, “Atmospheric muons as an imaging tool,” Reviews in Physics 5 (2020). For an interview with Raffaello D’Alessandro on his research imaging large works of architecture with muography, see Geoff Manaugh, “A tiny particle can travel through concrete. It could save many lives,” Financial Times Magazine (September 7, 2022).
Eric George, “Cosmic Rays Measure Overburden of Tunnel,” Commonwealth Engineer (July 1, 1955).
Luis W. Alvarez, Jared A. Anderson, F. El Bedwei et al., “Search for Hidden Chambers in the Pyramids: The Structure of the Second Pyramid of Giza is Determined by Cosmic-ray Absorption,” Science 167, no. 3919 (February 6, 1970): 832–39.
Kunihiro Morishima et al., “Discovery of a big void in Khufu’s Pyramid by observation of cosmic-ray muons,” Nature 552 (2017).
Hiroyuki K. M. Tanaka and Izumi Yokoyama, “High resolution imaging in the inhomogeneous crust with cosmic-ray muon radiography: The density structure below the volcanic crater floor of Mt. Asama, Japan,” Proceedings of the Japan Academy, Series B (2008). See also Tanaka et al., “Development of an emulsion imaging system for cosmic-ray muon radiography to explore the internal structure of a volcano, Mt. Asama,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A (June 1, 2007) and Tanaka, “Japanese volcanoes visualized with muography,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A (2019).
