Comparing Several Transport Models in Their Space Radiation Predictions

Zi-Wei Lin

East Carolina University

Dr. Zi-Wei Lin is Associate Professor of Physics at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. He has a PhD degree in Theoretical Nuclear Physics from Columbia University and has worked at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and University of Alabama Huntsville / Marshall Space Flight Center among other places. Since 2007 he has been a faculty at East Carolina University. His main research interests include transport models for nuclear reactions, radiation physics, and space radiation protection. In 2011 Thomson Reuters ScienceWatch® selected his article, 'Multiphase transport model for relativistic heavy ion collisions' (Physical Review C 72, 064901, 2005), as a featured Research Front Map paper, and an interview was published at http://www.sciencewatch.com/an...

Abstract

For space missions, solar particle events (SPE) and galactic cosmic rays (GCR) are major sources of space radiation to astronauts and electronics. To calculate the space radiation dose for risk analysis and mitigation,... [ view full abstract ]

Authors

  1. Zi-Wei Lin (East Carolina University)

Topic Areas

Modeling , Radiation , Space Weather

Session

Session 9c » Modeling (15:40 - Thursday, 18th May)

Paper

extAbstract-codeComparison-asec2017b.docx

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