Risk Assessment Based on Upset Rates From High Energy Proton Tests and Monte Carlo Simulations
- Resource Type
- Authors
- C.K. Kouba; C.C. Foster; P.M. O'Neill
- Source
- IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 55:2962-2969
- Subject
- Physics
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Proton
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Monte Carlo method
Cosmic ray
Gamma-ray astronomy
Upset
Ion
Nuclear physics
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
High energy proton
Deposition (phase transition)
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Nuclear Experiment
- Language
- ISSN
- 0018-9499
LEO upset rates and bounds due to heavy ion cosmic rays are assessed from 200 MeV proton tests using Monte Carlo simulations of energy deposition distributions in sensitive volumes of 26 parts.