Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.7225/toms.v14.n03.w01
Optimisation of Muon Portals for Border Controls Using TomOpt
Zahraa Zaher
; Universite catholique de Louvain, Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Maxime Lagrange
; Universite catholique de Louvain, Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Samuel Alvarez
; Universidad de Oviedo and ICTEA, Oviedo, Spain
Giles C. Strong
; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Padova, Italy
Florian Bury
; University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
Tommaso Dorigo
; Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Padova, Italy
Andrea Giammanco
; Universite catholique de Louvain, Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Aitor Orio
; Muon Tomography Systems S.L., Bilbao, Spain
Pietro Vischia
; Universidad de Oviedo and ICTEA, Oviedo, Spain
Haitham Zaraket
; Universite Grenoble-Alpes, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Grenoble, France
* Corresponding author.
Abstract
TomOpt is a software package designed to optimize the geometric configuration and specifications of detectors intended for tomography using cosmic-ray muon scattering. Differentiable programming is utilized in this software to model muon interactions with detectors and scanned volumes, infer volume properties, and perform loss minimization in an optimization cycle. In this paper, we introduce the implementation in TomOpt of a case study related to cargo scanning at border control points, such as cargo harbors and truck inspection stations.
Keywords
Muon tomography; Automatic differentiation; Detector design; Differentiable programming; Optimization; Muography
Hrčak ID:
340140
URI
Publication date:
21.10.2025.
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