Status of the DESIRE project: Geant4 physics validation studies and first results from Columbus/ISS radiation simulations

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 51, Issue 4 I, 2004, Pages 1378-1384

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

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c ESA Astronaut Centre   (Germany)

^d NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f RHEA System SA   (Belgium)

^g INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

GEANT4; HARDONIC PHYSICS; RADIATION FIELDS; SIMULATION SOFTWARES;

ANISOTROPY; BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAYS; DOSIMETERS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ORBITS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACE STATIONS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 4444237076     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2004.832648     Document Type: Conference Paper

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