Experimental Characterization of an Atmospheric Environment With a Stratospheric Balloon

Author

Wrobel, Fr?©d?©ric ; Vaill?©, Jean-Roch ; Pantel, Denis ; Dilillo, Luigi ; Rech, Paolo ; Galli?¨re, Jean-Marc ; Touboul, Antoine ; Chadoutaud, Pierre ; Cocquerez, Philippe ; Lacourty, Michel ; Lam-Trong, Thien ; Autran, Jean-Luc ; Chatry, Christian ; Lapl

Author_Institution

Univ. Montpellier II, Montpellier, France

Volume

58

Issue

3

fYear

2011

fDate

6/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

945

Lastpage

951

Abstract

We report a stratospheric flight with a CNES balloon for which we developed a silicon detector in order to obtain data on the atmospheric radiation environment. The number of detected protons is shown to be directly correlated with the altitude. Simulations with the MC-ORACLE code, which uses pre-calculated fluxes with QARM, are in good agreement with our experimental results.

Keywords

aerospace simulation; atmospheric radiation; balloons; silicon; CNES balloon; MC-ORACLE code; QARM; atmospheric radiation environment; pre-calculated fluxes; silicon detector; stratospheric balloon; stratospheric flight; Atmospheric modeling; Detectors; Instruments; Ionization; Neutrons; Protons; Silicon; Cosmic rays; QARM; neutrons; protons; real-time test; stratospheric balloons;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Location

5/5/2011 12:00:00 AM

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNS.2011.2136359

Filename

5762579