Optimisation of Muon Portals for Border Controls Using TomOpt
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.
Authors
- Aitor Orio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3150-6488)
- F. Bury (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3077-2090)
- T. Dorigo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1659-8727)
- Maxime Lagrange (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9332-8210)
- ANDREA GIAMMANCO (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9640-8294)
- Haitham Zaraket (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3929-0431)
- P. Vischia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7088-8557)
- S. S. Alvarez
- G. Strong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4640-6108)
- Zahraa Zaher (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5997-2612)
Institutions
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (IT)
- Universidad de Oviedo (ES)
- University of Bristol (GB)
- Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie (FR)
- UCLouvain (BE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Transactions on Maritime Science
- Published
- 2025-07-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.7225/toms.v14.n03.w01
- Primary Topic
- Particle Detector Development and Performance
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- European Commission
- Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS
- European Regional Development Fund
- Agencia Estatal de Investigación