Microdosimetry simulations of solar protons within a spacecraft

A. J. Wroe, University of Wollongong
I. Cornelius, University of Wollongong
A. Rosenfeld, University of Wollongong
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

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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.