Speakers
Description
The radiation environment in space poses unique challenges to the successful operation of electronic components exposed to it. It is hence important to test the devices sufficiently before their integrating them in space missions, if possible already during their design phase. Likewise, radiation effects on electronics pose reliability and availability threats for high-energy accelerator applications.
In order to evaluate the robustness of components against radiation, ground level radiation tests and Monte Carlo simulation tools like FLUKA play a key role and enable a reliable estimation of the associated risk.
Hence, this presentation will focus on the investigation of experimental beams mimicking this space and accelerator environments, such as ultra-high energy (UHE) heavy ions, high energy protons and electrons, with regards to their behavior while interacting with matter and related radiation effects. Special focus is placed on occurring nuclear fragmentation, energy deposition mechanisms and dosimetry issues. Among other tests, the heavy ion test campaigns at CERN in 2017 and 2018 have served as an excellent experimental opportunity for this. Additionally, the electron beam at CLEAR (CERN) representing the radiation environment around Jupiter has been exploited, with special focus on very high dose rates delivered in short pulses.
