Geant4 Monte Carlo simulations of the belt proton radiation environment on board the international space station/Columbus

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1444-1453

  Ersmark, Tore ^a   Carlson, Per ^a   Daly, Eamonn ^b   Fuglesang, Christer ^a,c   Gudowska, Irena ^d   Lund Jensen, Bengt ^a   Nieminen, Petteri ^b   Pearce, Mark ^a   Santin, Giovanni ^b,e  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c European Astronaut Centre   (Germany)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e Rhea System SA   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biological effects of radiation; Monte Carlo methods; Radiation effects; Simulation software; Space stations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; SPACE STATIONS;

ASYMMETRIC SHIELDING; PROTON RADIATION; SIMULATION SOFTWARE; TRAPPED PROTON DOSE;

BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS;

EID: 34548081378     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2007.896344     Document Type: Conference Paper

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