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Description
ICARE-NG is a radiation monitor already embedded in several space missions such as SAC-C, SAC-D, JASON2, JASON3 and more recently E7C.
Composed of several detection heads, a wide range of electron and proton energies can be measured. Initially designed with three detection heads, the geometries have recently been revised in order to integrate a new low-energy proton detection head. To guarantee an accurate discrimination of ionizing particles in a mixed field as radiation belts, magnets are used to deflect incident electrons. Moreover, a suitable shielding composed of aluminium and tungsten materials have been determined to reduce high-energy proton and bremsstrahlung contributions. The range of measured energies is now extended and protons from 2 MeV to 300 MeV can be measured.
Deposited energies are sampled by ICARE-NG as counts and methods for converting these counts to fluxes are needed. Recently, a dedicated Machine Learning algorithm have been developed and promising results were obtained.
