Validation Study of the Spacecraft Background Activation using RHESSI Data
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
This document serves as a brief writeup of the work done to validate CINDER2008 and the Activation Analysis Tools in the Activation in Accelerator Radiation Environments (AARE) distribution that are used to calculate the activation of spacecraft material while in orbit [1{3]. The validation study involves replicating the decay gamma spectrum as observed onboard the RHESSI spacecraft in the high-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors after crossing the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) [4]. The tools involved are a suite of Python scripts, the transmutation code CINDER2008 accompanied with a suite of scripts distributed with AARE,MCNPX, and MCNP6.2 [2,5{7]. Figure 1 shows the gamma ray spectrum this study replicates as the spectrum designated \Difference".
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396
- OSTI ID:
- 1467299
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR--18-27990
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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