The Muography School aims to go beyond the basics and provide practical experiences to students and early carrier scientists. Muographers2026 will start with lectures at the conference venue on the first day. Then lab practices and a discussion session will be held in HUN-REN Wigner RCP on the last day of Muographers2026. Important information and a tentative schedule is detailed as follows.
To whom: students and early carrier researchers (within eight years of the award of the PhD)
Application Deadline: 11:59 PM CET on 16 March 2026
Registration Fee will be covered by the support provided by LANL.
Schedule:
Day 1 (Time: 1 June, Monday. Venue: Mercure Budapest Castle Hill )
08:00-12:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee
08:30-12:00 Lectures:
(1) Germano Bonomi: Cosmic Rays, Atmospheric Muons, and Simulation Techniques;
(2) Dezső Varga: Muon Detectors;
(3) Gergő Hamar: Muon Tracking and Imaging Techniques;
(4) László Oláh: Applications of Muography.
Lunch 12:00-13:00
Day 2 (Time: 5 June, Friday. Venue: HUN-REN Wigner RCP)
8:30 Meeting at the entrance of KFKI Kampus
08:45-09:00 Introduction, visit of infrastructure
09:00-12:00 Measurements and analysis 1
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-16:00 Measurements and analysis 2
16:00-18:00 Discussion
18:00- Hiking at Normafa
Practices held in HUN-REN Wigner RCP:
1. Basics of MWPC [hardware lab]
(Tutor: Richárd Nagy, Lab: Lab-110-StudentLab)
Operational excercise with a small Multi-Wire Proportional Chamber:
MWPC internal structures, Gas supply, Oscilloscope operation, Detection of beta source with MWPC; Measure Landau distribution, Measure Gas Gain vs High-Voltage.
2. MWPC as Tracker [hardware lab]
(Tutor: Gergő Hamar, Lab-092-MARI)
Oparational excercise with a multi-layered MWPC based Muograph tracker:
MWPC structure, Muograph tracker setup, Oscilloscope operation, Detection and Tracking of cosmic muons; Measure Efficiencies and Gain vs HighVoltage.
3. Muograph operation [hardware+software]
(Tutor: Bence Rábóczki, Boglárka Stefán, Lab-001-TERI)
Operational excercise and verification of a Muograph tracker:
Muograph tracker structure, DataAcqisition, Detection and Tracking of cosmic muons; Measure differential cosmic flux, inclined operation, verify consistency wrt inclination.
4. MuonScattering measurements [hardware+software]
(Tutor: Gábor Nyitrai, Lab-003-HubaG)
Opration of a muon scattering experiment with twelve MWPC layers:
MuonTracker structure, MuonScattering feaures, Tracking of cosmic muons, identification of tracklets and scattering; Measure few iron and lead targets, image targets via tracklet scattering.
5. Exposure calculation [software calculation]
(Tutor: Nicolas Viaux, Office-101A)
Calculate the direct problem for muographic imaging:
Define the direct problem, include detector effects, estimate imaging capabilities for simple grometry, estimate time of exposure for tunnel detection.
6. Basics of Geant4 simulation [software simulation]
(Tutor: József Gábor Szűcs, Office-101B)
Running and understanding a Geant4 simulation for muography:
Introduction to Geant4 simulation framework, Physics list, Particle generators, Detection layers; Run simulation for a simple geometry with an underground tunnel, estimate detectability.
6. Muographic Inversion [software calculation]
(Tutor: László Balázs, Office-103A)
Baysian inversion for muon tomography reconstruction:
Define the tomographic inversion, Baysian approach, 2d/3d reconstuction, MatLab implementation, Issue for muography; Run and investigate inversion artefacts for 2D model for detecting an underground tunnel.
8. Muon Scattering reconstruction [software combined]
(Tutor: Zahraa Daher, Office-101)
Simulation and reconstruction of muon scattering experiment:
Software frameworks for simulation and analysis, Geant4 simulation, Main effects and issues for various reconstruction algorithms; Run and image
iron and lead targets in a muon scattering setup, estimate capabilities.