Cosmic ray detection on the Foton-M2 satellite by a track etch detector stack

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1030-1036

  Palfalvi J K ^a   Szabo J ^a   Dudas B ^a   Feher I ^a   Eordogh I ^b  

^a KFKI ATOMIC ENERGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNICAL PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

BIOPAN; Foton M2; Space dosimetry; SSNTD

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAY DETECTORS; COSMOLOGY; DOSIMETRY; SATELLITES;

BIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS; BIOPAN; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; FOTON-M2; GALACTIC COSMIC RAYS; SPACE DOSIMETRY; SSNTD; TRACK-ETCH DETECTORS;

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 49049116294     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2008.05.007     Document Type: Article

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