Earth Planets Space, Vol. 62 (No. 2), pp. 145-151, 2010
doi:10.5047/eps.2009.03.004

The MU-RAY project: Summary of the round-table discussions

F. Beauducel¹, A. Bross², S. Buontempo³, L. D'Auria⁴, Y. Déclais⁵, G. De Lellis^3,6, G. Festa⁶, P. Gasparini^6,7, D. Gibert¹, K. Hoshina⁸, G. Iacobucci³, N. Lesparre¹, G. Macedonio⁴, A. Marotta³, J. Marteau⁵, M. Martini⁴, G. Miele^3,6, P. Migliozzi³, C. A. Moura³, M. Orazi⁴, A. Pla-Dalmau², O. Pisanti^3,6, S. Pastor⁹, R. Peluso⁴, P. Rubinov², G. Scarpato⁴, G. Sekhniaidze³, P. Strolin^3,6, H. Taira¹⁰, M. Tanaka¹¹, H. K. M. Tanaka¹⁰, A. Tarantola¹, T. Uchida¹², M. Vassallo^3,7, I. Yokoyama¹³, and A. Zollo⁶

¹Institut de Physique du Globe, Paris, (IPGP), France
²Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL, USA
³Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Napoli, Italy
⁴Osservatorio Vesuviano, INGV, (OV), Italy
⁵Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL), France
⁶Universitá di Napoli "Federico II" (UniNA), Italy
⁷Consorzio Analisi e Monitoraggio Rischi Ambientali (AMRA), Napoli, Italy
⁸University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA
⁹Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC-Universitat de Valéncia), Spain
¹⁰Earthquake Research Institute (ERI), University of Tokyo, Japan
¹¹Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies, KEK, Japan
¹²Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan
¹³Usu Volcano Laboratory, Hokkaido University, Japan

(Received December 3, 2008; Revised March 3, 2009; Accepted March 30, 2009; Online published February 22, 2010)

Abstract: The MU-RAY project has the challenging aim of performing muon radiography of the summit cone of Mt. Vesuvius. The muon telescopes developed for this purpose will be available for the radiography of other volcanoes, in particular Stromboli. The scientific goals, the strategy for their implementation and the baseline detector design are discussed in detail. A tentative time schedule for the project is drawn.
Key words: Muon, radiography, volcanoes.