Plans for a new ground based space radiation research facility in the USA
- Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Inst., Bethesda, MD (United States)
The availability of energetic heavy ion beams at particle accelerator laboratories is essential to simulate components of the space radiation environment. Such ion beams are needed for radiobiological research, to assess radiation shielding requirements for space missions, to calculate spacecraft radiation detectors, and to study space radiation effects on electronic devices and systems. Such ground-based studies are complementary to obviously more realistic, but also much more difficult and more expensive space-based research. The purity of the accelerator beam and their monoenergetic and unidirectional nature are indispensible to gain a detailed understanding of the effecst caused by the complex radiation fields encountered in space.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- OSTI ID:
- 79448
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-9110312-; TRN: 9581445
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: NATO Advanced Studies Institute on the biological effects and physics of solar and galactic cosmic radiation conference, Faro (Portugal), 13-22 Oct 1991; Other Information: PBD: 1993; Related Information: Is Part Of Biological effects and physics of solar and galactic cosmic radiation, Part B; Proceedings of a NATO Advanced Study Institute on Biological Effects and Physics of Solar and Galactic Cosmic Radiation, Algarve, Portugal, Oct. 13-23, 1991; Swenberg, C.E.; Horneck, G.; Stassinopoulos, E.G.; PB: 939 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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