The Chinese scientists scanned an ancient city wall with help a muonic tomography

The research group finished survey of ancient city walls in Xi'an / prov. Province of Shaanxi, Northwest China / which age exceeds 600 years. Check was carried out with use of particles of space beams of high energy that allowed to keep walls untouched throughout all process. This hi-tech scanning was carried out with application of the first in China domestic system of the muonic tomography based on plastic scintillator. Thanks to six points of supervision established on the 58th section of external walls, data collection is carried out and are received...