Instruments of RT-2 experiment onboard CORONAS-PHOTON and their test and evaluation IV: Background simulations using GEANT-4 toolkit

Experimental Astronomy

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 85-107

  Sarkar, Ritabrata ^a   Mandal, Samir ^a   Debnath, Dipak ^a   Kotoch, Tilak B ^a   Nandi, Anuj ^a   Rao, A R ^b   Chakrabarti, Sandip K ^a,c  

^a INDIAN CENTRE FOR SPACE PHYSICS   (India)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c S N BOSE NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BASIC SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Background radiation, cosmic; Monte Carlo simulations; Radiation detectors; Structural and shielding materials; X and gamma ray telescopes and instrumentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651474014     PISSN: 09226435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-010-9208-z     Document Type: Article

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