MULASSIS - Monte Carlo radiation shielding simulation for space applications made easy
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Authors
Truscott, P.
Lei, F.
Dyer, C.
Quaghebeur, B.
Heynderickx, D.
Nieminen, P.
Evans, H.
Daly, E.
Mohammadzadeh, A.
Hopkinson, G.
Discipline
Physical sciences
Subject
Computer simulation
Computer software
Magnetoelectric effects
Mathematical models
Monte Carlo methods
Space applications
Electromagnetic processes
Integrated toolkit
Interaction processes
Radiation ionizing dose
Radiation shielding
Audience
Scientific
Date
2004Metadata
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This paper describes the MULASSIS ID radiation analysis tool, which is based on the Geant4 Monte Carlo radiation transport toolkit. MULASSIS permits simulation of a wide range of particle physics in almost any shielding material, including treatment of ionization and nuclear interactions of energetic protons, electromagnetic cascades for electrons and photons, and low-energy neutron transport, with the tracking of all secondary particles that are produced by interactions. The implementation of Geant4 physics in a 1D (spherical or planar) shielding application simplifies the input requirements, and because of this, the tool can be operated through a series of web pages from the ESA SPENVIS web-site. Outputs of MULASSIS include particle fluence at boundary layers, total ionizing dose to layers, non-ionizing energy loss at boundary layers and pulse height energy deposition spectra.
Citation
Truscott, P.; Lei, F.; Dyer, C.; Quaghebeur, B.; Heynderickx, D.; Nieminen, P.; Evans, H.; Daly, E.; Mohammadzadeh, A.; Hopkinson, G. (2004). MULASSIS - Monte Carlo radiation shielding simulation for space applications made easy. , ESA-SP 536, Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems, 2003. RADECS 2003, Issue 536, 191-196,Type
Conference
Peer-Review
No
Language
eng