Implications of nuclear reactions for single event effects test methods and analysis

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3356-3362

  Reed, Robert A ^a,b   Weller, Robert A ^a,b   Schrimpf, Ronald D ^a,b   Mendenhall, Marcus H ^c   Warren, Kevin M ^b   Massengill, Lloyd W ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Nuclear reactions; Single event effect rate; Single event effects

Indexed keywords

NUCLEAR REACTIONS; PRIMARY IONS; SINGLE EVENT EFFECT RATE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAYS; GALAXIES; IONIZATION; IRRADIATION;

PARTICLE ACCELERATORS;

EID: 33846311710     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.885950     Document Type: Conference Paper

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