Applicability of particle and heavy ion transport code PHITS to the shielding design of spacecrafts

Radiation Measurements

Volumn 41, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 1142-1146

  Sato, Tatsuhiko ^a   Niita, Koji ^b   Iwase, Hiroshi ^c   Nakashima, Hiroshi ^a   Yamaguchi, Yasuhiro ^a   Sihver, Lembit ^d,e  

^a Nuclear Science and Engineering Directorate   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH ORGANIZATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c GSI ^*  (Germany)

^d CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^e ROANOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NEUTRONS; RADIATION SHIELDING; SPACE SHUTTLES;

DETERMINISTIC CODES; MONTE CARLO CODES; NEUTRON SPECTRA; SHIELDING DESIGN;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 33751258595     PISSN: 13504487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radmeas.2006.07.014     Document Type: Article

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