Muography and Geodating

Wednesday 4 Sept 2024, 11:00 → 13:00 Europe/Rome

Marco Bruschi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Zoom Link: Please use the link provided in the email of the meeting call

 

11:00 → 11:20 Updates on geodating using muons and neutrons from cosmic rays

Speaker: Prof. Per Grafstrom (University of Bologna)

P values calculation.pdf

11:20 → 11:40 Neutron cross sections relevant to 10Be and 26Al production in carstic dolomite rocks

Speaker: Dr Luna Pellegri (University of the Witwatersrand and iThemba LABS)

11:40 → 12:10 Discussion

understand the importance of measuring directly neutron flux and energy directly in the Rising Star cave system (Luna, Per, Sara, Diletta, Catalin)

investigate the status of the direct measurements of fast neutron cross sections in Silicon. Understand if n-tof collaboration can provide info about this (Luna, Per, Sara, Diletta, Catalin, Benedetto)

investigate if the measure of the concentration of a third isotope 21Ne, in addition to 10Be and 26Al, can be useful to improve the dating measure of rocks (Per, Tebogo, Sara, Benedetto)