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A new generation of muon telescopes has been built to detect the presence
of secret structures and cavities in Egypt's pyramids, a team of researchers
announced on Friday.
Built by CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic
Energy Commission) the devices add to an armory of innovative, non-destructive
technologies employed to investigate four pyramids which are more than 4,500
years old. They include the Great Pyramid, Khafre or Chephren at Giza, the Bent
pyramid and the Red pyramid at Dahshur.
The project, called ScanPyramids, is scheduled to last one
year and is being carried out by a team from Cairo University's Faculty of
Engineering and the Paris-based non-profit organization Heritage, Innovation
and Preservation (HIP Institute) under the
authority of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities.
International researchers from Nagoya University and
KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization) in Japan and Laval
University, Quebec, Canada, have also joined the project, which is separate
from the search for the secret room in King Tut's tomb.
"Now we welcome new researchers from the Irfu, a
CEA fundamental research team," Mehdi Tayoubi, co-director of the
ScanPyramids mission with Hany Helal, professor at Cairo University's Faculty
of Engineering and former minister of research and higher education, said.
Irfu, which stands for Institute of Research into the
Fundamental Laws of the Universe, gathers almost 800 researchers on
astrophysics, nuclear physics and particle physics.
"These scientists have built dedicated muon
telescopes for our mission. They are actually under construction and being
tested in the CEA laboratories at Saclay, France," Tayoubi told Discovery
News.
"It is really exciting to see how a technology
that just came out from a fundamental research laboratory can help us
understand 4,500-year-old massive monuments with non visible physics
particles," he added.
The new muon devices rely on micro-pattern gas
detectors called Micromegas. Extremely precise, they are used to reconstruct
particles tracks in high energy physics. For example, CEA's Micromegas have
been installed in the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility.
Such muon telescopes will be used in addition to the
infrared thermography, muon radiography, and 3-D reconstruction technologies
that have already been employed to investigate the pyramids.
So far the researchers have detected striking thermal
anomalies on the eastern and northern side of the Great Pyramid at Giza, which
could possibly indicate an unknown cavity or internal structure.
A team led by specialist Kunihiro Morishima, from the
Institute for Advanced Research of Nagoya University, Japan, installed 40 muon
detector plates inside the lower chamber of the Bent pyramid at Dahshur in an
attempt to capture cosmic particles.
The technology relies on the muons that continually
shower the Earth's surface. They emanate from the upper layers of Earth’s
atmosphere, where they are created from collisions between cosmic rays of our
galactic environment and the nuclei of atoms in the atmosphere.
"Just like X-rays pass through our bodies
allowing us to visualize our skeleton, these elementary particles, weighing
around 200 times more than electrons, can very easily pass through any
structure, even large and thick rocks, such as mountains," Tayoubi said.
Plate detectors placed inside the pyramid allow
researchers to discern void areas — these are places where muons cross without
problem — from denser areas where some muons are absorbed or deflected.
While the Japanese muon detectors are used inside the
pyramids, the new moun telescopes, using gas detectors, will be used outside
the pyramids.
"In this way, we can for example better
understand some thermal anomalies that have been spotted," Tayoubi said.
"We are not in a hurry to make discoveries as we
rather want to build this project step by step. Our goal is to inform about all
the actions we take. We hope that other labs with very innovative technologies
will join us," Tayoubi said.
The next step will be to announce the first results
from the moun detectors placed inside the Bent pyramid at Dahshur.
"They are still under analysis," Tayoubi
said.
The Scientist in
Observational Research
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