Dr
Patrícia Gonçalves
(LIP - Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas)
04/03/2013, 15:45
Dr
Pete Truscott
(Kallisto Consultancy Ltd)
04/03/2013, 16:10
The Jovian radiation environment presents a severe threat to spacecraft operation due to the large magnetic field of Jupiter allowing it to stably trap charged particles, especially electrons, at higher energies and over greater distances than found in Earth’s Van Allen belts. As part of the ESA JUICE mission, an assessment is on-going into the different hardening and alternative radiation...
Mr
Maurício Tizziani Pazianotto
(Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITA, Sao José dos Campos, Brazil)
04/03/2013, 16:35
High-energy neutrons are produced by primary cosmic ray interactions with atoms in the atmosphere through spallation reactions and intranuclear cascade processes. These neutrons can produce secondary neutrons and also undergo moderation due to atmospheric interactions, resulting in a wide energy spectrum, which ranges from thermal energies (0.025 eV) to energies of several hundreds of MeV....
Mr
Andres Russu
(Space and Research Group of University of Alcala (SRG-UAH) | Science and Technology Park of Guadalajara | Spain)
04/03/2013, 17:00
Castilla-La Mancha Neutron Monitor (CaLMa) is the first installed in Spain and has as mission the continuous measurement of the extra-terrestrial radiation that reaches the ground. Is integrated into the neutron monitors network NMDB (Neutron Monitor Database). A neutron monitor measures the intensity variation of cosmic rays, monitoring solar activity continuously at energy between 1 and 20...
