“Our goal is to develop a new, terrestrial muon source that doesn’t require large accelerators and allows us to create directional beams of muons at relevant energies, from 10s to 100s of GeVs – to either image or characterize materials,” said Dr. Mark Wrobel, whose interests include “the development of new capabilities for detecting and interdicting threats associated with weapons of mass destruction, including chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats to national security.” Heading up the research project is DARPA program manager Dr. “Our goal is to develop a new, terrestrial muon source that doesn’t require large accelerators and allows us to create directional beams of muons at relevant energies” - Mark Wrobel, DARPA MuS2 Program Manager “But making muons requires such high-energy particles that production is limited to large physics research facilities such as the United States’ Fermilab national particle accelerator in Illinois and the European CERN accelerator in Switzerland.” At high energy, muons can travel easily through dozens to hundreds of meters of water, solid rock, or soil.” However, none of those sources can see through thick walls of concrete or deep layers of rock, such as those used in the construction of deep underground military bases or naturally formed tunnels.Īccording to the DARPA, “Muons are similar to electrons but about 200 times heavier. “Making muons requires such high-energy particles that production is limited to large physics research facilities” - DARPA MuS2 programĬurrently gamma rays, X-rays, neutrons, protons, and electrons are already in use for medical diagnostics, cargo scanning, and aircraft testing. “If successful, a transportable muon source could enable imaging through concrete walls several meters thick or locating chambers & tunnels hundreds of meters underground” - DARPA MuS2 Program If successful, the technologies developed would allow the US military to “image through concrete walls several meters thick, map the core of a volcano from the outside, or peer deep underground to locate chambers and tunnels.” The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is organizing its Muons for Science & Security ( MuS2) research program to create a compact source for generating these deeply penetrating subatomic particles. To add a symbol to the page, choose it from the toolstrip and click on the page-the symbol is automatically placed, and overall layout updated as necessary.DARPA is putting together a research program that would allow the Pentagon to see through thick concrete walls and deep underground chambers using beams of subatomic particles called muons. The toolstrip prevents visual clutter by showing the options that apply to the currently selected tool only. Simple Workflow All the notation tools in Mus2 are in the toolstrip at the left edge of the screen. Once you're done recording and editing with the built-in sequencer, simply copy the recorded passage and paste it onto a staff. You can create key mappings for your tunings to assign each key to an arbitrary pitch and, thanks to Mus2's microtonal sampler, get real-time intonationally accurate playback. Microtonal MIDI RecordingNEW! Connect a keyboard or any other MIDI-compatible instrument and record music in any tuning. When you do need the sound processing capabilities of other music software, simply export your score as a MIDI, Wave or AIFF file. The polyphony (number of simultaneous notes) limitation commonly found in other MIDI-based microtonal solutions does not exist in Mus2. Mus2 understands and plays back the articulations, ornaments, dynamic markings and other symbols in your score. 2014 | x86 | 104.4 MB Hear your score performed by sampled acoustic and electronic instruments in any tuning.
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