Cosmic-ray heavy ions at and above 40,000 feet

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Dec 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984itns...31.1066t&link_type=abstract

(IEEE, U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency, U.S. Department of Energy, and NASA, Annual Conference on Nuclear and Space Radiation Effect

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Cosmic Rays, Flight Altitude, Heavy Ions, Heavy Nuclei, Linear Energy Transfer (Let), Particle Flux Density, Aerospace Environments, Atmospheric Sounding, Earth Atmosphere, Energy Spectra, Ionizing Radiation, Secondary Cosmic Rays, Single Event Upsets

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The flux and linear-energy-transfer (LET) spectra of heavy cosmic ray nuclei and their secondary progeny are computed for aircraft flight altitudes (down to 40,000 ft). The associated frequency of single event upsets is determined and compared with neutron-induced events. It is shown that below altitudes of 60,000 ft (or atmospheric depths exceeding 60 g/sq cm) neutron-generated nuclear recoils and nuclear evaporation products become the most important contributors to single event upsets.

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