TY - JOUR
T1 - Spaceborne COTS-Capsule hodoscope
T2 - Detecting and characterizing particle radiation
AU - Simhony, Yoav
AU - Segal, Alex
AU - Orlov, Yuri
AU - Bashi, Dolev
AU - Amrani, Ofer
AU - Etzion, Erez
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2025/1
Y1 - 2025/1
N2 - The COTS-Capsule Spaceborne hodoscope was launched into low Earth orbit aboard the International Space Station and operated from 2021 to 2022. The primary objectives of the payload are measuring and characterizing the radiation environment within the space station, serving as a technology demonstrator for the COTS-Capsule radiation mitigation apparatus, and testing the interaction of high-energy cosmic particles on-orbit with our detectors. The payload features a particle hodoscope equipped with an array of novel detectors based on polyvinyl toluene scintillators and silicon photomultiplier sensors that are used for radiation detection and characterization employing 2D intensity-based triangulation. This paper provides a comprehensive account of the COTS-Capsule payload's construction, preflight performance, testing, qualification, and on-orbit calibration. The hodoscope, sensitive to ionizing cosmic particles, facilitates impinging particle track reconstruction by multi-detector 2D position estimation, energy deposition estimation, and linear energy transfer estimation.
AB - The COTS-Capsule Spaceborne hodoscope was launched into low Earth orbit aboard the International Space Station and operated from 2021 to 2022. The primary objectives of the payload are measuring and characterizing the radiation environment within the space station, serving as a technology demonstrator for the COTS-Capsule radiation mitigation apparatus, and testing the interaction of high-energy cosmic particles on-orbit with our detectors. The payload features a particle hodoscope equipped with an array of novel detectors based on polyvinyl toluene scintillators and silicon photomultiplier sensors that are used for radiation detection and characterization employing 2D intensity-based triangulation. This paper provides a comprehensive account of the COTS-Capsule payload's construction, preflight performance, testing, qualification, and on-orbit calibration. The hodoscope, sensitive to ionizing cosmic particles, facilitates impinging particle track reconstruction by multi-detector 2D position estimation, energy deposition estimation, and linear energy transfer estimation.
KW - Cosmic particles
KW - GEANT4
KW - Hodoscope
KW - International Space Station (ISS)
KW - Particle detector
KW - Space
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2024.169996
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2024.169996
M3 - مقالة
SN - 0168-9002
VL - 1070
JO - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
M1 - 169996
ER -