Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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In a muon tomography detector, cosmic-ray muons interact with an object and strike scintillators that emit photons. Wavelength-shifting fibers transmit the photons to photodetectors that digitize the signals, which researchers analyze to reconstruct high-resolution images.

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