Modeling the Heavy Ion Upset Cross Section

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 73-82

  Prinja, A K ^c   Sexton, F W ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; ESTIMATION; GEOMETRY; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

HEAVY ION UPSET CROSS SECTION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL FORMULATION; PETERSEN'S CORRECTION; RECTANGULAR PARALLELEPIPED; THRESHOLD ENERGY; WEIBULL DENSITY FUNCTION;

IONS;

EID: 0029293603     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.372135     Document Type: Article

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