Space Radiation Environment and Effects Study and simulation of the radiation environment in the heliosphere: radiation monitoring and effects on EEE components
I have been the Coordinator of Space Radiation Environment and Effects activities at LIP since 2006, which resulted in the creation of the SpaceRad Research Group. Space exploration is one of the applications of particle physics technologies, particularly in what concerns radiation detection instrumentation and the modelling of complex interaction of radiation with matter processes. The competences developed at LIP in this field include all the technologies identified on ESA's roadmap for this domain: radiation environment measurement technologies; radiation environment modelling; radiation effects analysis tools; test characterization and Radiation Hardness Assurance (RHA) of EEE components. In the past years various activities were developed, mainly in the framework of contracts with ESA, involving different institutions both in academia and in national industry, and LIP is today an international reference in the Geant4 simulation of Space radiation monitors and also in the modelling of the radiation environment in Mars. The LIP SpaceRad group integrates senior researchers, PhD and Master students and is currently involved in different projects, mostly though contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA).

Projects

Project Coordination - Contract manager at LIP

• ECO-60 Verification of Co-60 testing representativeness for EEE components flown in the Jupiter electron environment (2014-2018) contract ESA 3-13975/13/NL/PA


• CODES IV CODES Framework Implementation (2013-2016) contract ESA 22381/09/NL/PA

Project Coordination - Subcontract manager at LIP

• CTTB Data Analysis Flight Data Analysis of the TDP8 radiation experiments onboard AlphaSat (2015-2019) contract ESA 4000115004/15/NL/RA/ZK with EFACEC SA and EVOLEO Technologies (industry)


• RADEM The JOVIAN RadHard Electron Monitor Proto-Flight Model (2014-2020) contract ESA 4000110643/14/NB with EFACEC SA (PT), IDEAS (NO) (industry) and PSI - Paul Scherrer Institute (CH)


• MFS Data Analysis AlphaSat TDP-8 MFS Particle Spectrometer Data Analysis (2014-2018) contract ESA 4000110640/14/NL/AK with EFACEC SA (industry)


• CTTB Flight Preparation CTTB Preparation of In-Flight Data Analysis (2011-2012) ESA 6403/10/NL/SFe with EFACEC SA and EVOLEO Technologies (industry)


• Heliospheric Network Participação Portuguesa na Rede Heliosférica (2008-2010) project PDCTE/CTE-SPA/81678/2003 with Dalmiro Maia, Observatório Astronómico Prof. Manuel de Barros FCUP




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Publications

Space Radiation Environment & Effects

Book Chapter

The MARSREM Project: Mars Radiation Environment Models and Active Shielding Studies for Interplanetary Missions
Patrícia Gonçalves et al.
in "The Energetic Particle Radiation Hazard en route to and at Mars"
Susan M. P. McKenna-Lawlor, Editor , Paris (France)
International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) 2016

PIER REVIEWED INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

• Beam test results of the RADEM Engineering Model, Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 2020
  DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2019.162795


• Dose measurements and simulations of the RADFETs response onboard the Alphasat CTTB experiments, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science 2020
  DOI: 10.1109/tns.2020.3013035


• Development of a Directionality Detector for RADEM, the Radiation Hard Electron Monitor aboard the JUICE Mission, M. Pinto, P. Gonçalves, A Marques, J. Costa Pinto, W. Hajdas, IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, (22/02/2019)
  DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2019.2900398


• GUIMesh: a tool to import STEP geometries into Geant4 via GDML, Marco Pinto and Patrícia Gonçalves, Computer Physics Communications, Volume 239, June 2019, Pages 150-156
  DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2019.01.024


• Electrons in GEO measured with the ESA Multi-Functional Spectrometer during the January 2014 SEP, L. Arruda, P. Gonçalves et al, IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci. Vol 65, Issue 8 pp 1540 - 1545 August 18
  DOI:10.1109/TNS.2018.2854161


• SEP Protons in GEO Measured With the ESA MultiFunctional Spectrometer, L. Arruda, P. Gonçalves, I. Sandberg et al., IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., Vol 64, Issue:8, August 2017
  DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2017.2714461


• The low energy magnetic spectrometer on Ulysses and ACE response to near relativistic protons, B. Morgado, D. Maia, L. Lanzerotti, P. Gonçalves, J. D. Patterson, Astronomy and Astrophysics 577, May 2015, 05/2015
  DOI:10.1051/0004-6361/201525960


• Modeling the response of the ESAPMOS4 RADFETs for the ALPHASAT CTTB experiment, P. Gonçalves, A. Keating, A. Trindade, P. Rodrigues, M. Ferreira, P. Assis, M. Muschitiello, B. Nickson, C. Poivey, IEEE - Trans. Nucl. Sci., Volume:61 , Issue: 3, pp 1439, June 2014
  DOI:10.1109/TNS.2014.2321477


• Modeling the effects of low-LET cosmic rays on electronic components, A. Keating, P. Gonçalves, M. Pimenta, et al., Radiation and Environmental Biophysics Volume: 51 Issue: 3 Pages: 245-254, August 2012.

DOI: 10.1007/s00411-012-0412-2

• The impact of Mars geological evolution in high energy ionizing radiation environment through time, A. Keating, P. Gonçalves, Planetary and Space Science Volume: 72 Issue: 1 Pages: 70-77, 2012
  DOI:10.1016/j.pss.2012.04.009


• Overview of energetic particle hazards during prospective manned missions to Mars
  Susan McKenna-Lawlor, P. Gonçalves, A. Keating, G. Reitz and D. Matthia
  Planetary and Space Science, Volumes 63.64, April 2012, Pages 123-132
  DOI:10.1016/j.pss.2011.06.017


• Characterization of the particle radiation environment at three potential landing sites on Mars using ESA's MEREM models
  S. McKenna-Lawlor, P. Gonçalves, A. Keating, B. Morgado, D. Heynderickx, P. Nieminen, G. Santin, P. Truscott, F. Lei, B. Foing and J. Balaz
  Icarus, Volume 218, Issue 1, March 2012, Pages 723-734
  DOI:10.1016/j.icarus.2011.04.004


• GEANT4 Applications for Astroparticle Experiments
  Maria Catarina Espírito Santo, Patrícia Gonçalves, Mário Pimenta, Pedro Rodrigues, Bernardo Tomé and Andreia Trindade,
  IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science, Vol. 51(2004) 1373.
  DOI:10.1109/TNS.2004.832288

PIER REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

• Dose measurements and simulations of the RADFETs response onboard the ALPHASAT CTTB experiments J. Sampaio, P. Gonçalves, C. Pinto, T. Sousa, P. Ribeiro, C. Poivey, submitted to RADECS 2019, Monpellier, France September 2019


• Beam test results of the RADEM Engineering Model M. Pinto, P. Gonçalves, P. Socha, W.Hajdas, A. Marques, J. Costa Pinto, Nucl.Instrum. Meth. A Proceedings D-19-00091, VCI 2019 15th Vienna Conference on Instrumentation (organized in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy) Vienna, Austria, February 2019


• Development of a Directionality Detector for RADEM, the Radiation Hard Electron Monitor aboard the JUICE Mission , M. Pinto, P.Gonçalves, A Marques, J. Costa Pinto, W. Hajdas, Proceedings of RADECS 2018, September 2018 Gothenburg


• Radiation Analysis and Shielding Optimization of RADEM, a Radiation Hard Electron Monitor for the JUICE Mission, M. Pinto, P. Gonçalves, A. Marques, J. Costa Pinto, W. Hajdas, A. Mrigakshi, TNS-00496-2018, Proceedings of the IEEE NSREC 2018, July 2018 Hawai


• SEP Electrons in GEO measured with the ESA MultiFunctional Spectrometet L. Arruda, P. Gonçalves, F. Carvalho, A. Marques, J. Costa Pinto, A. Aguilar, P. Marinho, T. Sousa, H. Evans, P. Nieminen, Proceedings of the 17th RADECS,Genéve, Switzerland, 2017


• Assessment of radiation exposure in manned missions to Mars , A. L. Casimiro, J. M. Sampaio, P. Gonçalves, proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Radiation and Applications on Various Fields of Research, (RAD 2017) June 2017, Budva, Montenegro, 2017


• Representativeness of 60-Co testing for EEE components to be flown in JUICE, M. Pinto, P. Gonçalves, P. Assis, M. Ferreira, Space, LIP; M. Muschitiello, C. Poivey, ESTEC; 2017 proceedings of the IEEE Nuclear & Space Radiation Eects Conference (NSREC 2017), New Orleans, USA, 2017


• Bread-Board Testing of the Radiation Hard Electron Monitor(RADEM) being developed for the ESA JUICE Mission , A. Mrigakshi, W. Hajdas, R. Marcinkowski, H. Xiao, P. Gonçalves, M. Pinto, C. Pinto, A. Marques and Dirk Meier , EGU General Assembly 2016, Vol. 18, EGU2016- 13998-2, 2016


• SEP Protons in GEO with the ESA MultiFunctional Spectrometer L. Arruda, P. Goncalves, I. Sandberg et al, proceedings of the 16th RADECS, Bremen, Germany, 2016 [c8 ]


• Dose calculations from RADFETS response onboard the ALPHASAT CTTB experiment , J. M. Sampaio, P. Gonçalves, C. Pinto, T. Sousa, A. Marques, P. Ribeiro, S. Sobreiro, R. Martins, M. Muschitiello, and C. Povey, proceedings of the 16th RADECS, Bremen, Germany, 2016


• Protons in GEO with the ESA Multifunctional Spectrometer, L. Arruda, P. Goncalves, I. Sandberg, A. Marques, J. Costa-Pinto, A. Aguilar, P. Marinho, T. Sousa, A. Menicucci, P. Nieminen, PoS (ICRC2015) 137, Proceedings of Science, SISSA, for the the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 30 July- 6 August, 2015 The Hague, The Netherlands, August 2015


• Simulation of Single Event Eects and Rate Prediction: CODES an ESA Tool , A. Keating, S. Coutinho, P. Gonçalves, A. Zadeh, M. Pimenta, E.Daly and J. Martins, in proceedings of the IEEE NSREC 2014, Paris, July 2014.


• Solar panels as cosmic-ray detectors C. Stella, M. Palatiello, P. Assis, P. Brogueira, C. Espirito- Santo, P. Goncalves, M. Pimenta, A. de Angelis, Science with the New Generation of High Energy Gamma-ray experiments, 10th Workshop 04-06 June 2014 Lisbon - Portugal, arXiv:1411.5560v1 [astro-ph.IM] 20 Nov 2014


• Modeling the response of the ESAPMOS4 RADFETs for the ALPHASAT CTTB experiment, P. Gonçalves et al, proceedings of the 14th RADECS, Oxford, UK, 2013 [c12 ]


• Lunar Radiation Environment, European Lunar Symposium, Gonçalves P. , Keating A., (2012), Abstract Volume, pp. 50, April 2012


• Characterization of RADFET Dosimeters for the ESA ALPHASAT CTTB Experiments, RADECS IEEE Proceedings - Gonçalves P., Keating A., et al.(2012)


• Validation of the component degradation simulation tool (CODES), A. Keating, P. Gonçalves, A.Zadeh, M.Pimenta, S. Coutinho, P.Brogueira, E.Daly
  proceedings of IEEE RADECS 2011, Sevilla.


• The Mars Energetic Radiation Environment Models
  P.Truscott, F.Lei, A.Keating, S.Valente, P.Gonçalves, L.Desorgher, D.Heynderickx, N.Crosby, H.de Witte, G.Degreef, P.Nieminen & G.Santin
  proceedings of IEEE NSREC 2008, Tucson, Arizona.

Pierre Auger Observatory ( updating ...)

Some of the most relevant publications are listed below.

• MARTA: a high-energy cosmic-ray detector concept for high-accuracy muon measurement, Abreu P. et al., Eur. Phys. J. C (2018) 78: 333 DOI: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-018-5820-2; 1[W0K]
• Interpretation of the depths of maximum of extensive air showers measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory, Abreu, P.; Aglietta, M.; Ahlers, M.; et al., Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Issue:2 Published:FEB 2013
• Measurement of the cosmic ray energy spectrum using hybrid events of the Pierre Auger Observatory Settimo, Mariangela; Abreu, P.; Aglietta, M.; et al.,European Physical Journal, Volume:127, Issue:8 Published: AUG 2012


• Measurement of the Proton-Air Cross Section at root s=57 TeV with the Pierre Auger Observatory Abreu, P.; Aglietta, M.; Ahn, E. J.; et al., Physical Review Letters, Volume:109 Issue: 6, Published:AUG 10 2012


• A Study of the Effect of Molecular and Aerosol Conditions in the Atmosphere on Air Fluorescence Measurements at the Pierre Auger Observatory , Pierre Auger Observatory Collaboration Astropart.Phys.33 (2010) 108,


• The Fluorescence Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory , The Pierre Auger Collaboration, Nucl. Instrum. and Meth. A 620, 227 (2010)


• Measurement of the Depth of maximum of extensive air showers above 1018 eV , J.Abraham et al., The Pierre Auger Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 091101, (2010).


• Measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 1018 eV using the Pierre Auger Observatory , J.Abraham et al., The Pierre Auger Collaboration, Physics Letters B 685 (2010) 239


• Upper limit on the cosmic-ray photon fraction at EeV energies from the Pierre Auger Observatory , Pierre Auger Collaboration, Astropart. Phys 31, 6, (2009) 399


• Correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with the positions of nearby active galactic nuclei , Pierre Auger Collaboration , Astropart. Phys 29, 3 (2008) 188, Erratum-ibid. 30, 45 (2008)


• Observation of the Suppression of the Flux of Cosmic Rays above 4 x 1019 eV , J.Abraham et al., The Pierre Auger Collaboration, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 061101 (2008)


• Correlation of the highest-energy cosmic rays with nearby extragalactic objects , by Pierre Auger Collaboration, Science 318, 938 (2007)

AMS

• Prototype study of the Cherenkov imager of the AMS experiment P. Aguayo et al, \nim{560}{2006}{291}.
• In-beam aerogel light yield characterization for the AMS RICH detector, M.Aguilar-Benitez et al., Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A614 (2010) 237


• In-beam tests of the AMS RICH prototype with 20-A-GeV/c secondary ions
  B. Baret et al., \nim{525}{2004}{126}.


• Cherenkov angle and charge reconstruction with the RICH detector of the AMS experiment
  F. Barão, L.Arruda, J. Borges, P. Gonçalves, M. Pimenta, I. Perez, \nim{502}{2003}{310}


• GEANT4 detector simulations - Radiation interaction simulations for the high-energy astrophysics experiments EUSO and AMS
  New Worlds in astroparticle Physics 2005. Faro, Portugal 8 -10 January 2005. (proceedings)