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ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH
Volume 47, Issue 6, Pages 1089-1105Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2010.11.013
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Space radiation; Transport codes; Galactic cosmic ray
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- NASA [NNL06AA14A, NNL07AA36C, NNL07AA18C]
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The HZETRN deterministic radiation code is one of several tools developed to analyze the effects of harmful galactic cosmic rays (GCR) and solar particle events on mission planning and shielding for astronauts and instrumentation. This paper is a comparison study involving the two Monte Carlo transport codes, HETC-HEDS and FLUKA and the deterministic transport code, HZETRN. Each code is used to transport an ion from the 1977 solar minimum GCR spectrum impinging upon a 20 g/cm(2) aluminum slab followed by a 30 g/cm(2) water slab. This research is part of a systematic effort of verification and validation to quantify the accuracy of HZETRN and determine areas where it can be improved. Comparisons of dose and dose equivalent values at various depths in the water slab are presented in this report. This is followed by a comparison of the proton and forward, backward and total neutron flux at various depths in the water slab. Comparisons of the secondary light ion H-2, H-3, He-3 and He-4 fluxes are also examined. (C) 2010 Published by Elsevier Ltd. on behalf of COSPAR.
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