Early results from the Advanced Radiation Protection Thick GCR Shielding Project

Ryan Norman

NASA Langley Research Center

Ryan B Norman is a research physicist at NASA Langley Research Center where he specializes in the physics of space radiation interactions and transport.  Ryan earned his Ph.D. in physics from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2008. He then was a postdoctoral fellow with the University of Tennessee and the NASA Postdoctoral Program at NASA Langley Research Center.  He then held a joint appointment as a Research Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Tennessee (in residence at NASA Langley) and an Adjunct Professor of Physics at Old Dominion University.  His research interests include radiation shielding, nuclear fragmentation, heavy ion physics, radiation biophysics, risk quantification, and uncertainty quantification.

Abstract

The Advanced Radiation Protection Thick GCR Shielding Project leverages experimental and modeling approaches to validate a possible minimum in the radiation exposure versus shielding depth curve. Preliminary results of space... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Ryan Norman (NASA Langley Research Center)
  2. Martha Clowdsley (NASA Langley Research Center)
  3. Tony Slaba (NASA Langley Research Center)
  4. Lawrence Heilbronn (University of Tennessee - Knoxville)
  5. Cary Zeitlin (Wyle Laboratories)
  6. Sean Kenny (NASA Langley Research Center)
  7. Luis Crespo (NASA Langley Research Center)
  8. Dan Giesy (NASA Langley Research Center)
  9. James Warner (NASA Langley Research Center)
  10. Natalie Mcgirl (University of Tennessee - Knoxville)
  11. Luis Castellanos (University of Tennessee - Knoxville)
  12. Ashwin Srikrishna (University of Tennessee - Knoxville)
  13. Amir Bahadori (Kansas State University)
  14. Brandon Reddell (NASA Johnson Space Center)
  15. Robert Singleterry (NASA Langley Research Center)

Topic Areas

Modeling , Radiation Effects (e.g., SEE, TID, DDD) , Radiation

Session

Session 9b » Modeling (14:00 - Thursday, 18th May)

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