Prospects of the study of geological structures by muon radiography based on emulsion track detectors

For the first time in Russia, researchers of the Lebedev Physical Institute and Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics perform test experiments for studying the internal structure of large natural and industrial objects by the muon radiography method using the emulsion technique. The used technique is based on the high penetrability of cosmic muons and implies the detection of the attenuation of their flux passed through the object under study using nuclear photoemulsions with a uniquely high spatial resolution. The results of the first test experiment are presented, which confirm the promising application of the method when using emulsion track detectors and their subsequent hi-tech automated processing.