Microdosimetry simulations of solar protons within a spacecraft

Authors

A. J. Wroe, University of Wollongong
I. Cornelius, University of WollongongFollow
Anatoly B. Rosenfeld, University of WollongongFollow
V. L. Pisacane, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, USA
J. F. Zeigler, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, USA
M. E. Nelson, United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, USA
F. Cucinotta, NASA Johnson Space Centre, Houston, USA
M. Zaider, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Care Centre, New York, USA
J. F. Dicello, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA

RIS ID

13761

Publication Details

This paper originally appeared as: Wroe, AJ, Cornelius, I, Rosenfeld, AB et al, Microdosimetry simulations of solar protons within a spacecraft, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, December 2005, 52(6)1, 2591-2596. Copyright IEEE 2005.

Abstract

The microdosimetric spectra derived by silicon microdosimeter in a proton radiation field traversing heterogeneous structures were simulated using the GEANT4 toolkit.