Progress towards a FLUKA based simulation tool aimed at the evaluation of space radiation environments
Creators
- 1. Houston University, Texas (United States)
- 2. INFN (Italy)
- 3. University of Pavia (Italy)
- 4. University of Milan (Italy)
- 5. Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, INFN (Italy)
- 6. SLAC, California (US)
- 7. Siegen University (Germany)
- 8. CERN, Geneva, CH-1211 (Switzerland)
- 9. ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
- 10. NASA/JSC, Houston (United States)
Description
Goal of the NASA funded FLEUR project is to develop a simulation tool to predict the impact of radiation environments, in particular to evaluate the effect of shielding in space applications. The heart of this tool is the FLUKA Monte Carlo transport code which is traditionally used in related areas of research such as radio-protection and dosimetry, cosmic ray physics and modeling of biological effects of radiation on DNA (in connection with further external micro codes). An important aspect in this context are heavy ion nuclear interactions which at this point have been implemented in FLUKA for high and medium energies while work is proceeding to cover the low energy range. Further information is available at http://www.fluka.org and http://fleur.cern.ch
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.1664255;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Journal Volume
- 698
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 349-352
- ISSN
- 0094-243X
- CODEN
- APCPCS
Conference
- Title
- 8. conference on intersections of particle and nuclear physics
- Acronym
- CIPANP2003
- Dates
- 19-24 May 2003
- Place
- New York, NY (United States)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 36071362
- Subject category
- S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S61: RADIATION PROTECTION AND DOSIMETRY; S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; DNA; DOSIMETRY; ENERGY LOSSES; EVALUATION; F CODES; ION BEAMS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NASA; NEUTRON FLUX; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; RADIATION TRANSPORT; SPACE; SPACE VEHICLES
- Descriptors DEC
- BEAMS; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; CALCULATION METHODS; COMPUTER CODES; INTERACTIONS; LOSSES; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIATION FLUX; SIMULATION; US ORGANIZATIONS; VEHICLES
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2004 American Institute of Physics