Muon Communication
Muon-Based Pulse-Position Modulation for Communication Through Dense Matter: A Simulation Study.
Helped found an 8-member research group with students met through SHAD and QSYS from across Canada, to investigate whether relativistic muons could theoretically serve as information carriers through dense matter.
The study investigates the physical limits of the channel, incorporating multiple Coulomb scattering, ionization energy loss, muon flux limitations, beam divergence and detector timing jitter, rather than relying on simplified bit-flip noise models.
The scheme moved from Pulse Interval Modulation to Slotted Pulse-Position Modulation to reduce error propagation, with Hamming(7,4) error correction and CRC implemented on top. Both physically accessible depths and hypothetical higher-energy stress-test cases were modelled, evaluating bit-error rates, depth-estimation accuracy and communication latency.
Current results indicate raw bit-error rates below 3% for a 12 m overburden with timing jitter up to 15 ns, while estimating depth to sub-millimetre precision with 106 muons.
Status
- Role — Founder and first author.
- Review — currently being vetted by a professor.
- Next — preprint, then submission for peer-reviewed publication.