PREFACE ANNALS of GEOPHYSICS [Special Issue_60_01_2017] MUOGRAPHERS 2014: muon and geo-radiation physics for Earth studies. Edited by Hiroyuki K.M. Tanaka, Cristina Cârloganu, Roberto Scarpa. [Special Issue_60_1_2017] MUOGRAPHERS 2014: muon and geo-radiation physics for Earth studies PREFACE Hiroyuki K.M. Tanaka, Cristina Cârloganu, Roberto Scarpa S0101 ARTICLES Alliance to penetrate mysteries of the Earth Gianpaolo Bellini, Paolo Strolin, Hiroyuki K. M. Tanaka S0102 The MURAVES muon telescope: technology and expected performances Giulio Saracino, Fabio Ambrosino, Lorenzo Bonechi, Alan Bross, Luigi Cimmino, Roberto Ciaranfi, Raffaello D’Alessandro, Flora Giudicepietro, Giovanni Macedonio, Marcello Martini, Vincenzo Masone, Nicola Mori, Pasquale Noli, Massimo Orazi, Giuseppe Passeggio, Anna Pla-Dalmau, Lorenzo Roscilli, Paolo Strolin S0103 The MURAVES telescope front-end electronics and data acquisition Luigi Cimmino, Fabio Ambrosino, Lorenzo Bonechi, Roberto Ciaranfi, Raffaello D’Alessandro, Vincenzo Masone, Nicola Mori, Pasquale Noli, Giulio Saracino, Paolo Strolin S0104 Muography of the Puy de Dôme Pasquale Noli, Fabio Ambrosino, Lorenzo Bonechi, Alan Bross, Luigi Cimmino, Raffaello D’Alessandro, Vincenzo Masone, Nicola Mori, Giuseppe Passeggio, Anna Pla-Dalmau, Giulio Saracino, Enrico Scarlini, Paolo Strolin S0105 Muography applied to nuclear waste storage sites Raffaello D’Alessandro, Fabio Ambrosino, Lorenzo Bonechi, Luigi Cimmino, David G. Ireland, Ralf Kaiser, David F. Mahon, Nicola Mori, Pasquale Noli, Giulio Saracino, Craig Shearer, Lorenzo Viliani, Guangliang Yang S0106 A possible point of contact between cosmic ray physics and archaeology: muon absorption radiography at the Tharros Phoenician-Roman site Lorenzo Bonechi, Fabio Ambrosino, Luigi Cimmino, Raffaello D’Alessandro, Nicola Mori, Pasquale Noli, Giulio Saracino, Paolo Strolin, Lorenzo Viliani S0107 A Geant4 framework for generic simulations of atmospheric muon detection experiments Nicola Mori, Fabio Ambrosino, Lorenzo Bonechi, Luigi Cimmino, Raffaello D’Alessandro, Pasquale Noli, Giulio Saracino, Paolo Strolin, Lorenzo Viliani S0108 Nuclear emulsion techniques for muography Cristiano Bozza, Lucia Consiglio, Nicola D’Ambrosio, Giovanni De Lellis, Chiara De Sio, Seigo Miyamoto, Ryuichi Nishiyama, Chiara Sirignano, Simona Maria Stellacci, Paolo Strolin, Hiroyuki K.M. Tanaka, Valeri Tioukov S0109 Muography of 1949 fault in La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain Seigo Miyamoto, José Barrancos, Cristiano Bozza, Lucia Consiglio, Chiara De Sio, Pedro Hernández, Ryuichi Nishiyama, Germán Padilla, Eleazar Padrón, Chiara Sirignano, Simona Maria Stellacci, Hiroyuki K.M. Tanaka, Valeri Tioukov S0110 Muography with nuclear emulsions - Stromboli and other projects Valeri Tioukov, Giovanni De Lellis, Paolo Strolin, Lucia Consiglio, Andrey Sheshukov, Massimo Orazi, Rosario Peluso, Cristiano Bozza, Chiara De Sio, Simona Maria Stellacci, Chiara Sirignano, Nicola D’Ambrosio, Seigo Miyamoto, Ryuichi Nishiyama, Hiroyuki K.M. Tanaka S0111 Development of nuclear emulsion for muography Kunihiro Morishima, Akira Nishio, Masaki Moto, Toshiyuki Nakano, Mitsuhiro Nakamura S0112 ANNALS of GEOPHYSICS KamLAND: geo-neutrino measurement in Japan Itaru Shimizu S0113 Borexino: geo-neutrino measurement at Gran Sasso, Italy Matteo Agostini, Konrad Altenmüller, Simon Appel, Gianpaolo Bellini, Jay Benziger, Daniel Bick, Giuseppe Bonfini, David Bravo, Barbara Caccianiga, Frank Calaprice, Alessio Caminata, Paolo Cavalcante, Alexander Chepurnov, Davide D’Angelo, Stefano Davini, Alexander Derbin, Lea Di Noto, Ilya Drachnev, Alexander Etenko, Kirill Fomenko, Andrey Formozov, Davide Franco, Federico Gabriele, Cristian Galbiati, Chiara Ghiano, Marco Giammarchi, Marianne Göger-Neff, Augusto Goretti, Maxim Gromov, Caren Hagner, Ed Hungerford, Aldo Ianni, Andrea Ianni, Karol Jedrzejczak, Dominik Jeschke, Vladislav Kobychev, Denis Korablev, Gyorgy Korga, Didier Kryn, Matthias Laubenstein, Bjoern Lehnert, Evgeny Litvinovich, Francesco Lombardi, Paolo Lombardi, Livia Ludhova, Georgy Lukyanchenko, Igor Machulin, Szymon Manecki, Werner Maneschg, Simone Marcocci, Emanuela Meroni, Mikko Meyer, Lino Miramonti, Marcin Misiaszek, Michele Montuschi, Pablo Mosteiro, Valentina Muratova, Birgit Neumair, Lothar Oberauer, Michel Obolensky, Fausto Ortica, Marco Pallavicini, Laszlo Papp, Laura Perasso, Andrea Pocar, Gioacchino Ranucci, Alessandro Razeto, Alessandra Re, Aldo Romani, Romain Roncin, Nicola Rossi, Stefan Schönert, Dmitrii Semenov, Hardy Simgen, Mikhail Skorokhvatov, Oleg Smirnov, Albert Sotnikov, Serguei Sukhotin, Yury Suvorov, Roberto Tartaglia, Gemma Testera, Jan Thurn, Maria Toropova, Evgenii Unzhakov, Alina Vishneva, Robert Bruce Vogelaar, Franz von Feilitzsch, Hanguo Wang, Stefan Weinz, Juergen Winter, Marcin Wojcik, Michael Wurm, Zachary Yokley, Oleg Zaimidoroga, Sandra Zavatarelli, Kai Zuber, Grzegorz Zuzel S0114 ANNALS of GEOPHYSICS PREFACE The objective of this Italian/Japanese bilateral workshop is to advance, with research and technology, the field of new Earth observation techniques performed in conjunction with experimental nuclear and particle physics. Such topics have been specially developed in Italy and Japan, both of which have similar geological backgrounds (including earthquakes and volcanoes). Opportunities at this workshop for discussion amongst researchers will help to promote and strengthen long-term relationships between the two countries along with increasing the presence, scope and influence of this research at the international level. The workshop is co-hosted by the National Institute for Nuclear Physics [INFN], the National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology [INGV] and the University of Tokyo, with the support of the Executive Program following the Italian/Japanese bilateral cooperation agreement on Science and Technology and of the Italian Embassy in Tokyo. Guest Editors Hiroyuki K.M. Tanaka Cristina Cârloganu Roberto Scarpa Earthquake Research Institute, Centre National Università di Salerno, The University of Tokyo, de la Recherche Scientifique, Dipartimento di Fisica, Tokyo, Japan Paris, France Fisciano (Salerno), Italy ANNALS OF GEOPHYSICS, 60, 1, 2017, S0101; doi:10.4401/ag-7376. © 2017 by the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia. 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