A Review of Secondary Particle Environments at Exploration Targets

Joe Mazur

The Aerospace Corporation

JOE MAZUR is an associate director of the Space Sciences Department at The Aerospace Corporation. He earned his bachelors in physics from the University of Chicago in 1985 and his masters and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland in 1989 and 1991 respectively. He has over thirty years of experience in space science and space hazard effects, including advanced particle detectors, space physics, solar energetic particles, trapped particles in the Earth’s magnetosphere, and space environment effects on space systems. He is active in the design and construction of advanced particle detectors and low-impact space radiation monitors. His scientific research interests include the composition, acceleration, and transport of solar energetic particles in interplanetary space and trapped particles in the Earth’s magnetosphere. He was co-investigator on the NASA Solar, Anomalous, and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer, the NASA/ESA Ulysses mission, the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, and was an instrument investigator on the NASA Advanced Composition Explorer spacecraft. He is currently principal investigator of a high-energy proton spectrometer for the NASA Radiation Belt Storm Probes mission.

Abstract

Nuclear interactions between solar and galactic cosmic ray primary ions and matter produce secondary particles that include neutrons, ions, photons, leptons, and intermediate particles with short mean lifetimes. These nuclear... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Joe Mazur (The Aerospace Corporation)
  2. Mark Looper (The Aerospace Corporation)

Topic Areas

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

Session

Session 4 » Observations (09:00 - Tuesday, 16th May)

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