Optimisation of Muon Portals for Border Controls Using TomOpt

Authors

  • Zahraa Zaher Universite catholique de Louvain, Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Maxime Lagrange Universite catholique de Louvain, Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Samuel Alvarez Universidad de Oviedo and ICTEA, Oviedo, Spain
  • Giles C. Strong Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Padova, Italy
  • Florian Bury University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
  • Tommaso Dorigo Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Padova, Italy
  • Andrea Giammanco Universite catholique de Louvain, Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology (CP3), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Aitor Orio Muon Tomography Systems S.L., Bilbao, Spain
  • Pietro Vischia Universidad de Oviedo and ICTEA, Oviedo, Spain
  • Haitham Zaraket Universite Grenoble-Alpes, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Grenoble, France

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7225/toms.v14.n03.w01

Keywords:

Muon tomography, Automatic differentiation, Detector design, Differentiable programming, Optimization, Muography

Abstract

TomOpt is a software package designed to optimize the geometric configuration and specifications of detectors intended for tomography using cosmic-ray muon scattering. Differentiable programming is utilized in this software to model muon interactions with detectors and scanned volumes, infer volume properties, and perform loss minimization in an optimization cycle. In this paper, we introduce the implementation in TomOpt of a case study related to cargo scanning at border control points, such as cargo harbors and truck inspection stations.

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Published

2025-07-25

How to Cite

Zaher, Z. (2025) “Optimisation of Muon Portals for Border Controls Using TomOpt”, Transactions on Maritime Science. Split, Croatia, 14(3). doi: 10.7225/toms.v14.n03.w01.

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 3 (2025): ToMS ~ October 2025 ~ WebFirst

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Regular Paper

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