Institute of research into the fundamental laws of the Universe

This project benefits from Île-de-France region Sésame financing and its construction started in 2018. It will house the resources – some of which already exist – for building and characterising instruments intended for muon imaging, as well as a pool of muon imagers, in a building covering a total of 500 m2. This infrastructure will be both a technology platform and a centre of expertise, for detection components and systems and their operation, open to cross-disciplinary projects and industry. It will have:

• Fixed instruments, including the existing “M3” muon telescope, comprising 4 XY detector planes, each with a surface of 1 m2, that can be extended to 2 m2. The geometry of this telescope can be configured for detectors tests (as is the case today for the ATLAS/NSW modules) or for tomography purposes.
• A battery of mobile instruments that can be deployed on outside sites, such as those already used for the ScanPyramid mission.