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A New Method for Calculating Low Energy Neutron Flux
Technical Paper
2006-01-2149
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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A new method is developed for calculating the low energy neutron flux in a space environment which is protected from galactic cosmic rays (GCR) and solar particle events (SPE) by shielding materials. Our calculations are compared with low energy neutron flux flight data recorded on four different STS low earth orbit missions. We also compare our neutron flux calculations with the low energy neutron flux data recorded by MIR.
The low energy neutron flux calculations can be described as a deterministic method for solving the Boltzmann equation for the light ion flux associated with a given environment. Existing Monte Carlo neutron flux simulations associated with the MIR and ISS space stations are also compared with our deterministic method for calculating neutron flux.
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Slaba, T., Heinbockel, J., Wilson, J., Blattnig, S. et al., "A New Method for Calculating Low Energy Neutron Flux," SAE Technical Paper 2006-01-2149, 2006, https://doi.org/10.4271/2006-01-2149.Also In
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