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Simulation-Derived Angular Migration in Volcanic Muography

R. A. Martínez-Rivero·C. Sarmiento-Cano·L. A. Núñez
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Transmission muography usually treats each angular bin as a straight line of sight through the target. Multiple Coulomb scattering can break this mapping by changing the muon direction in rock. We introduce CABRIALES, a reduced model that represents this effect as migration between source and destination angular bins. The input muons are generated with a conditional normalizing flow trained on ARTI simulations, selected with a continuous-slowing-down range threshold, and deflected using angular distributions derived from Geant4. We apply the model to four observation points at Cerro Machin volcano in Colombia. Among the muons selected by the transmission threshold, 41.4-45.1% move to a different 2.5-degree bin within the field of view, while 20.7-24.3% reach a different rock-intersecting angular bin associated with a longer rock path in the terrain model. For muons with energies within 5% above the transmission threshold, the changed-bin fraction increases to 67.4-81.3%. Destination maps further show that events arriving from shorter assigned paths can form a large share of the modeled population in some rock-intersecting bins. These results quantify angular redistribution before detector response; they do not represent net count changes or density bias.

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R. A. Martínez-Rivero, C. Sarmiento-Cano, L. A. Núñez. 2026-10-28. Simulation-Derived Angular Migration in Volcanic Muography. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.38969

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