Muon Tomography to Map Queen Maeve's Cairn

Queen Maeve’s cairn in northwestern Ireland, a large man-made stone Neolithic mound, is one of the largest unexcavated cairns in Europe. As such, there is strong motivation to non-invasively map its internal structure. We are developing a muon telescope specifically for this purpose. Muons are partially absorbed by the stone and soil in the cairn but pass through voids less impeded, granting us a view inside the structure. Monte-Carlo simulations are used to create a comparative baseline to real-world data, as well as various machine learning approaches to enhance the detector performance.