Validation of comprehensive space radiation transport code
- NASA, Hampton, VA (United States). Langley Research Center
- NASA, Houston, TX (United States). Johnson Space Center; and others
The HZETRN code has been developed over the past decade to evaluate the local radiation fields within sensitive materials on spacecraft in the space environment. Most of the more important nuclear and atomic processes are now modeled and evaluation within a complex spacecraft geometry with differing material components, including transition effects across boundaries of dissimilar materials, are included. The atomic/nuclear database and transport procedures have received limited validation in laboratory testing with high energy ion beams. The codes have been applied in design of the SAGE-III instrument resulting in material changes to control injurious neutron production, in the study of the Space Shuttle single event upsets, and in validation with space measurements (particle telescopes, tissue equivalent proportional counters, CR-39) on Shuttle and Mir. The present paper reviews the code development and presents recent results in laboratory and space flight validation.
- OSTI ID:
- 323950
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-980705-; ISSN 0018-9499; TRN: 99:004470
- Journal Information:
- IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 45, Issue 6Pt1; Conference: IEEE nuclear and space radiation effects conference, Newport Beach, CA (United States), 20-24 Jul 1998; Other Information: PBD: Dec 1998
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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