ESA Space Environment Effects Analysis Section ESA Geant

ESA Space Environment & Effects Analysis Section ESA Geant 4 Activities P. Nieminen, E. Daly, A. Mohammadzadeh, H. D. R. Evans, G. Santin ESA-ESTEC

ESA Space Environment & Effects Analysis Section Recent and on-going Geant 4 -related R&D funded by ESA § Radiation Effects Analysis Tools (REAT), SPENVIS and Geant 4 interface for Multi-Layered Shielding Simulation Software (MULASSIS), including WWW version [Qineti. Q, University of Southampton] § Dose Estimation by Simulation of the ISS Radiation Environment (DESIRE) [University of Stockholm, Karolinska Institut, EAC, ESTEC, INR] § Geant 4 simulations on the ESA SREM instrument [University of Bern] § Predicting displacement damage effects in electronic components by method of simulation (NIEL). [University of Cologne] § Further work on low-energy e. m. extensions, e. g. for Bepi Colombo [INFN Genova, ESA Astrophysics, other Institutes and Universities] § Improvement of graphical representation of solids, investigation of STEP to XML translation [E. Chernaev, CERN] § Development of Internal Conversion process [Qineti. Q] § Space. GRID, WP on Geant 4 application [Datamat, Qineti. Q] § INTAS project 00 -629: comparisons with SHIELD code [ESTEC, BISA, CNES, Russian Institutes]

ESA Space Environment & Effects Analysis Section Upcoming Geant 4 R&D and other activities § Energetic Particle Shielding and Interactions Software, major R&D item. 5 ESA missions + 5 other activities for new Geant 4 models and applications [Qineti. Q + 5 other Institutes / Teams] § Aurora: Manned and unmanned Solar System exploration initiative. Items for space environments and effects: ü Radiation Shielding and Effects (Geant 4 models, open competition) ü Radiation Exposure and Mission Strategies for Interplanetary Manned Missions (Geant 4 applications, open competition) § Proposals in the 2003 -04 ESA General Studies Programme for plasma and components tools and applications § Proposal for ESA-Portugal Task Force: Study on EUSO and AMS on the ISS § Geant 4 Space Users’ Forum 20 -22 January 2003 at ESTEC: http: //www. estec. esa. nl/conferences/03 C 05/index. html

ESA Space Environment & Effects Analysis Section MULASSIS: WWW tool for shielding calculations

ESA Space Environment & Effects Analysis Section MULASSIS: WWW tool for shielding calculations

ESA Space Environment & Effects Analysis Section Standard Radiation Environment Monitor (SREM)

ESA Space Environment & Effects Analysis Section Standard Radiation Environment Monitor (SREM)

ESA Space Environment & Effects Analysis Section Standard Radiation Environment Monitor (SREM)

ESA Space Environment & Effects Analysis Section SREM on PROBA: protons and electrons SREM

ESA Space Environment & Effects Analysis Section ESA Columbus module on ISS

ESA Space Environment & Effects Analysis Section DESIRE (Dose Estimation by Simulation of the ISS Radiation Environment): http: //gluon. particle. kth. se/desire/ · Prediction of the ambient energetic particle environment (SPENVIS & additional models) · Construction of COLUMBUS geometry · Radiation transport, including secondary particle production, through the geometry. · Geant 4, HZETRN, and SHIELD intercomparison. · Calculation of astronaut radiation doses · Connection to an INTAS-00 -629 activity: http: //srd. sinp. msu. ru/INTAS/ Neutrons

ESA Space Environment & Effects Analysis Section INTAS-00 -629: proton and heavy ion data base

ESA Space Environment & Effects Analysis Section INTAS-00 -629: proton and heavy ion data base

ESA Space Environment & Effects Analysis Section HERMES X-Ray Spectrometer on Mercury Planetary Orbiter PIXE from solar proton events

ESA Space Environment & Effects Analysis Section HERMES X-Ray Spectrometer on Mercury Planetary Orbiter BESSY-II data

ESA Space Environment & Effects Analysis Section Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Satellite Test of the Equivalence Principle (STEP) Charging of test masses by cosmic rays and solar particles, d-rays, and displaced gold ions p+, a, Au+ · Analysis by Geant 3. 21 down to 10 ke. V; interfacing with ITS 3. 0 down to 1 ke. V. [Y. Jafry et al. , Class. Quantum Grav. 13, 1996] -rays · Geant 4: Analysis possible in one framework down to 250 e. V. · SMART-2 application

ESA Space Environment & Effects Analysis Section SPENVIS spectra