5.2.5 Calibration of Detectors that Have Flown on Mir, ISS, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Orion Spacecraft and the Mars Science Laboratory

Eric R. Benton; Lawrence Pinsky; Cary Zeitlin; Yukio Uchihori; Thomas Berger

doi:10.3769/radioisotopes.68.433

Section 5 [Space Science] Space Radiation Physics and Biology

5.2.5 Calibration of Detectors that Have Flown on Mir, ISS, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the Orion Spacecraft and the Mars Science Laboratory

Eric R. Benton , Lawrence Pinsky, Cary Zeitlin, Yukio Uchihori, Thomas Berger

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Keywords: HIMAC (Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba), space radiation detector, ICCHIBAN project (InterComparison for Cosmic-ray with Heavy Ion Beams At NIRS), radiation protection, calibration by accelerator beam

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2019 Volume 68 Issue 6 Pages 433-441

DOI https://doi.org/10.3769/radioisotopes.68.433

J-STAGE : radioisotopes 68 8 pp.593-593

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Abstract

A variety of radiation detectors and instruments have been deployed to characterize the radiation environment in low and high Earth orbit, lunar orbit, Mars orbit and on the surface of Mars. Here we discuss the testing and calibration of these detectors using HIMAC ion beams.

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