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Hernán Asorey1, Mauricio Suárez-Durán2, Rafael Mayo-García3
1Medical Physics Department, Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Centro Atómico Bariloche, Av. E. Bustillo 9500, San Carlos de Bariloche, 8400, Río Negro, Argentina; Instituto de Tecnologías en Detección y Astropartículas (ITeDA), Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica, Centro Atómico Constituyentes, Av. Gral. Paz 1499, Villa Maipú, 1650, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abstract:
Atmospheric radiation produced during the interaction of cosmic rays with the atmosphere could be considerably high at typical flight altitudes and constitutes a risk factor for people and avionics onboard the plane. In this work, we present ACORDE, a Monte Carlo-based method to estimate the dose during a commercial flight by using state-of-the-art simulation codes and considering the course travelled, the real-time atmospheric and geomagnetic conditions, and a model of the plane and an anthropomorphic phantom to obtain the effective dose on a flight-by-flight basis.
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