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What is the professor’s opinion about the newer muon detectors?
What is the professor’s opinion about the newer muon detectors?
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2018-08-16
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What is the professor’s opinion about the newer muon detectors?
Listen to part of a lecture in an Archaeology class.
Professor: Let’s clarify one popular myth in Archaeology. Some people think excavation is simply digging a site until something valuable is found. Well, while there is an element of luck involved, we have an array of high tech devices to help us figure out where to apply our efforts. It wouldn’t make a lot of sense to just dig up a random site looking for an ancient structure. There is one of the newer tools actually created by a different field of study, The machine, a muon detector, or muon counter relies on particle physics. I’d say this is quite an interdisciplinary approach.
A muon is a charged elementary particle similar to electron. Okay, let me start over. On Earth, most naturally occurring muons are created by cosmic rays, which consist mostly of protons, many arriving from deep space at very high energy. When these charged particles of cosmic rays collide with molecules in the upper atmosphere, they break up into smaller particles, muons. Traveling at the speed of light, muons can penetrate tens of meters into rocks and other matter on Earth’s surface. ln fact, they can pass through solid matter, so they can transmit deep into the surface. Thus, this property of muon is perfect for archaeologists to take advantage of.
Let me explain. Over the course of several months, one detector can build up a picture showing the shadows of structures they’re studying —like the Mayan pyramid in Central America, for example. We’re interested in finding out if there are buried chambers or other rooms inside. Well, a muon detector can track a great number of muon passing through the less dense space inside the pyramid. Yes, you have your hand up?
Student: I don’t think I get how this device works exactly.
Professor: Okay, well, when muons pass through ... uh ... say ... stone walls of a pyramid, dense material, they lose energy. So, in the case of empty space, more muons can pass through because they lose less energy. The muon detector can identify the area by measuring the amount of muons in each place. We can see darker colors in empty spaces, so we wind up with a sort of... picture of the site and its internal structure.
Student: Picture?
Professor: Yes, in the same way that CT scans produce a 3-D picture of your body using X-rays. It literally is like tomography in the medical sense.
Student: Okay, so if darker areas show up inside the pyramid, we assume it’s an empty space with more muons.
Professor: You got it. This technology enables us to see what’s inside of the structure before we dig up the site. So now we know exactly where to excavate, and we can minimize the damage. You know, even a little damage could result in losing crucial information forever.
Now, it was when archaeologists began to use muon detectors that they improved. Four decades ago, in 1967, a physicist buried these detectors in the ground, surrounding the Egyptian pyramids. He was looking for buried chambers. However, he saw no surprises in that experiment. But he did demonstrate that the technique worked, One of the problems was that the machine he used was about the size of a water heater. It was so big that many archaeologists doubted its practicality.
Then, there was another issue of range. With the detector used in 1967, we could only scan from muon directly above it, but not from the sides. So, it actually had to be placed underneath the pyramid first, so we could look up into the inside of the ancient structure. Wouldn’t it be nice, for instance, to have a system that didn’t take six months to produce an image? I believe that’s way better than the year it took for the 1967 study to get the results, but let’s continue...
Well, there’s good reason to believe that with better equipment, we’re going to find many more novel applications of muons. Muon detectors can also be used in other areas of science, for instance, to scope our nuclear waste sites or even to look underground.
选项
A、She thinks that they have greater potential in areas of science other than archaeology.
B、They provide more accurate information about the age of objects than older detectors did.
C、She appreciates the help they provide even though it takes much time to produce images.
D、She is afraid that many archaeologists will be unwilling to learn to use them.
答案
A
解析
态度题。在讲座结尾部分,教授往往会对讲座内容发表看法或展望未来,常见的信号词有I think,we believe等。在本讲座中针对muon detector教授说到:there’s good reason to believe that with better equipment,we’re going to find many more novel applications of muons.意思是:有理由相信,有了更好的设备我们会让muon在其他科学领域发挥作用,可见教授对该技术的前景是非常看好的,并期待在其他领域的应用,所以A选项正确,其中选项的other than是“除了”的意思。该部分,教授没有对该技术的应用表示担忧,所以D选项不正确。该技术也没有就物体的年龄进行比较,所以B选项不正确。modern muon detector生成影像的速度快,C项中much time to finish与讲座内容不符。
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