Muon Tomography sites for Colombia volcanoes

2017 
Using a very detailed simulation chain to calculate the cosmic ray background flux, we propose most convenient places and estimate the exposure time of a muon telescope to study active Colombia volcanoes. We design and implement a simple criterion to study a dozen of active Colombia volcanoes and determined which is workable. Our simulation chain considers three important factors with different spatial and time scales: the geomagnetic effects, the development of the extensive air showers in the atmosphere, and the detector response at ground level. Considering each particular volcano topography, we obtained the muon flux crossing each structure and estimate the time exposure for our hybrid muon telescope at several point around each geological edifice, assuming a reasonable statistics for different instrument acceptances.
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