Description of light ion production cross sections and fluxes on the Mars surface using the QMSFRG model

Radiation and Environmental Biophysics

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 101-106

  Cucinotta, Francis A ^a   Kim, Myung Hee ^a   Schneider, Susana I ^b   Hassler, Donald M ^c  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT NUCLEI; NUCLEAR ABRASION; NUCLEAR FRAGMENTATION CROSS SECTIONS; QUANTUM MULTIPLE SCATTERING FRAGMENTATION (QMSFRG);

COALESCENCE; GALAXIES; HEAVY IONS; NEUTRONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

COSMIC RAYS;

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERIC RADIOACTIVITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; COSMIC RADIATION; ENVIRONMENT; HEAVY ION RADIATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; NEUTRON RADIATION; RADIATION DETECTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RADIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; IONS; MARS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION MONITORING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 34248206106     PISSN: 0301634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00411-007-0099-y     Document Type: Conference Paper

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