Contact
Name
Samip Basnet

Position
PhD student

Email
samip.basnet@uclouvain.be

Address
Centre for Cosmology, Particle Physics and Phenomenology - CP3
Université catholique de Louvain
2, Chemin du Cyclotron - Box L7.01.05
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium

Office
E.150

UCL member card
http://www.uclouvain.be/samip.basnet
Projects
Research directions:
Detector commissioning, operation and data processing
Research and development of new detectors

Experiments and collaborations:
MURAVES

Active projects
Imaging with cosmic-ray muons
Marwa Al Moussawi, Samip Basnet, Eduardo Cortina Gil, Ishan Darshana, Pavel Demin, Andrea Giammanco, Maxime Lagrange

The general goal of this project is to develop muon-based radiography or tomography (“muography”), an innovative multidisciplinary approach to study large-scale natural or man-made structures, establishing a strong synergy between particle physics and other disciplines, such as geology and archaeology.
Muography is an imaging technique that relies on the measurement of the absorption of muons produced by the interactions of cosmic rays with the atmosphere.
Applications span from geophysics (the study of the interior of mountains and the remote quasi-online monitoring of active volcanoes) to archaeology and mining.

We are using the local facilities at CP3 for the development of high-resolution portable detectors based on Resistive Plate Chambers.

We also participate to the MURAVES collaboration through simulations (including the coordination of the Monte Carlo group), data-analysis developments (an example of the latter is the implementation and in-situ calibration of time-of-flight capabilities), and development of a new database.

We are part of the H2020-RIA project SilentBorder, which aims at developing new muon scanners at border controls. Our role in this project is to develop a parametric simulation and a ML-based detector optimization procedure.

We are also part of the H2020-MSCA-RISE network INTENSE where we coordinate the Muography work package, which brings together particle physicists, geophysicists, archaeologists, civil engineers and private companies for the development and exploitation of this imaging method.

External collaborators: UGent; Kyushu University; INTENSE Research & Innovation Staff Exchange network (Japan, Switzerland, Italy, France, Hungary); SilentBorder network (Estonia, Germany, Finland, Turkey, Italy, UK); MURAVES Collaboration including INFN, INGV, universities of Florence and Federico II Naples, UGent.
Publications in IRMP
All my publications on Inspire

Number of publications as IRMP member: 9
Last 5 publications

2022

CP3-22-45: Portable Resistive Plate Chambers for Muography in confined environments
Gamage, R. M. I. D. and Basnet, Samip and Cortina Gil, Eduardo and Giammanco, Andrea and Demin, Pavel and Moussawi, Marwa and Samalan, Amrutha and Tytgat, Michael and Karnam, Raveendrababu and Youssef, Ayman

[Abstract] [PDF] [Full text]
Proceedings of the inter-Disciplinary Underground Science and Technology conference (i-DUST 2022).
E3S Web of Conferences 357, 01001 (2022)
Contribution to proceedings. September 21.
CP3-22-11: The MURAVES experiment: study of the Vesuvius Great Cone with Muon Radiography
D'Errico, M. and others

[Abstract] [PDF]
Proceedings of the Muography'21 workshop, submitted to JAIS
Contribution to proceedings. February 28.
CP3-22-09: The Simulations Chain of the MURAVES Experiment
Moussawi, Marwa Al and others

[Abstract] [PDF] [Journal]
Proceedings of Muography'21
Contribution to proceedings. February 8.
CP3-22-07: Towards a portable high-resolution muon detector based on Resistive Plate Chambers
Basnet, S. and Gil, E. Cortina and Demin, P. and Gamage, R. M. I. D. and Giammanco, A. and Karnam, R. and Moussawi, M. and Samalan, A. and Tytgat, M.

[Abstract] [PDF]
Proceeding for the International Workshop on Cosmic-Ray Muography (Muography2021), submitted to Journal for Advanced Instrumentation in Science (JAIS)
Contribution to proceedings. February 2.

2021

CP3-21-57: End-to-end simulations of the MUon RAdiography of VESuvius experiment
Samalan, A. and others

[Abstract] [PDF] [Journal]
Proceedings of the iWoRID 2021 conference.
Contribution to proceedings. September 30.

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