TOMSK, Jan 15 – RIA Tomsk. The employee of Tomsk State University (TSU) SU Experimental
High Energy Physics laboratory Evgeny Chernyaev, one of the Geant4 program
developers, which allowed the international scientific group Scan Pyramids to
find earlier unknown room in the pyramid of Cheops, told, thanks to what
characteristics of Geant4 it became possible, the press service of TSU
reports on Monday.
"In 2017 the international research team Scan Pyramids in an analysis of
the muon tomography data of the Egyptian pyramids, discovered a previously
unknown room in the pyramid of Cheops. Evgeny Chernyaev, the research associate
of the TSU Experimental High Energy Physics laboratory, is one of the
developers of the Geant4 program used for this purpose.This is the first large
discovery in the pyramid of Cheops since the 19th century", – is
said in the TSU statement.
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It is specified that the "secret room", found with the means of Geant4,
is located above the large gallery, leading to the Chamber of the pharaoh. Its
length is not less than 30 meters, height – is about 15 meters.
According to the press service, Geant4 allows to capture cosmic muons which
permeate stone blocks and therefore are suitable for muon tomography: if there
is a emptiness in the object, a significant increase in the flux of muons will
be observed in its direction.
"Today Geant4 is the most advanced, and therefore the most demanded
program for modeling the passage of particles through a substance ... The field
of application of this program is constantly expanding. It is not only
high-energy physics, but also medicine, biology, chemistry, space,
astrophysics", – the press service quotes Chernyaev.
According to open sources, Geant4 (GEometry ANd Tracking) – is a tool for
modeling the passing of elementary particles through a substance. It's
developed at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) since 1998.
TSU is the full member of the ATLAS and TOTEM Collaborations at the Large
Hadron Collider (LHC) in CERN. TSU scientists participate in the analysis of
the LHC data in the study of the leptonic decays of the Higgs boson and the
modernization of the ATLAS muon spectrometer. In the TOTEM experiment, the representatives
of TSU are engaged in modeling of silicon and diamond detectors to study
inelastic collisions of protons.