The Sirad experiment on board the International Space Station

✍ Scribed by M. Casolino; F. Altamura; M. Minori; M. Nagni; P. Picozza; E. Reali; G. Mazzenga; M. Ricci; T. Napolitano; M.A. Franceschi; V. Bonvicini; A. Galper; M. Korotkov; A. Popov

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 389 KB
• Volume: 572
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0168-9002
• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2006.10.313

✦ Synopsis

The Sirad experiment aims to measure with great precision the cosmic ray radiation environment on the outside of the International Space Station. The detector, composed of a stack of 32 silicon detectors arranged in X-Y pattern and surmounted by a scintillator system, is capable of detecting nuclei from protons to Iron in the energy range between ' 30 MeV=n and ' 5 GeV=n.