The radiation environment on the moon from galactic cosmic rays in a lunar habitat

Radiation Research

Volumn 173, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 238-244

  Jia, Y ^a   Lin, Z W ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICKEL; PROTON;

ALBEDO; ARTICLE; ATOM; COSMIC RADIATION; ELECTRON; GEOMETRY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOON; NEUTRON; PHOTON; PION; POSITRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; THICKNESS;

COSMIC RADIATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MOON;

EID: 75149150315     PISSN: 00337587     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1667/RR1846.1     Document Type: Article

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