Validation of a Comprehensive Space Radiation Transport Code

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 45, Issue 6 PART 1, 1998, Pages 2711-2719

  Shinn, J L ^a   Cucinotta, F A ^a   Simonsen, L C ^a   Wilson, J W ^a   Badavi, F F ^b   Badhwar, G D ^b   Miller, J ^c   Zeitlin, C ^c   Heilbronn, L ^c   Tripathi, R K ^d   Clowdsley, M S ^d   Heinbockel, J H ^d   Xapsos, M A ^d  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; COSMIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MICROCLIMATE; NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE RADIATION HEALTH; NON-NASA CENTER; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACE FLIGHT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

NASA CENTER JSC; NASA DISCIPLINE RADIATION HEALTH; NON-NASA CENTER;

ALGORITHMS; COSMIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS; LINEAR ENERGY TRANSFER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION PROTECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOLAR ACTIVITY; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ION BEAMS; ION BOMBARDMENT; RADIATION EFFECTS; SPACE SHUTTLES; SPACE SIMULATORS; SPACE STATIONS;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE HZETRN; SPACE RADIATION TRANSPORT CODE;

RADIATION PROTECTION;

EID: 0032227809     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/23.736519     Document Type: Article

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