How likely is Buffon's ring toss to intersect a planar Cantor set? (Q710838)

\textit{M. Bateman} and \textit{A. Volberg} [``An estimate from below for the Buffon needle probability of the four-corner Cantor set'', pp. 1--11, \url{arXiv:math/0807.2953} (2008)] showed that the \(n\)-th partial 1/4 Cantor in the plane set decays in Favard length no faster than \(C\frac{\log n}{n}\). \textit{M. Bond} and \textit{A. Volberg} [``Estimates from below of the Buffon noodle probability for undercooked noodles'', pp. 1--10, \url{arXiv:math/0811.11302} (2008)] studied the so-called circular Favard length of the same set, the same estimate is shown to persist when the circle has radius \(r\geq Cn\). In this paper, the author shows that, by considering characteristic functions, the result of Bond and Volberg [loc. cit.] naturally leads to a conjecture which (if true) would imply the sharpness of the \(L\log \log L\) boundedness of the circular maximal operator proved by \textit{A. Seeger, T. Tao} and \textit{J. Wright} [``Notes on the lacunary spherical maximal function'', preprint (2005)].