JPL introduction 4th Geant4 Space Users

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JPL introduction4th Geant4 Space Users Workshop
and 3rd Spenvis Users WorkshopNovember 6, 2006

• Insoo Jun
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• California Institute of Technology

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JPL is part of NASA and Caltech

• Federally (NASA)-owned Federally-Funded Research
  and Development Center (FFRDC)
• University (Caltech)-operated
• 1.5 billion business base
• 5000 employees and contractors
• 177 acres
• 134 buildings and 57 trailers
• 670,000 net square feet of office space
• 860,000 net square feet of non-office space
  (e.g., labs)

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JPL history mosaic
1936
1940s
1958
1950s
JPL today
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JPL staff composition by job classification and
academic degree in Qtr 1 FY 2006

• Staff composition by job classification for 5355
  employees (4975 FTEs)

• RD staff distribution by academic degree for
  3687 employees

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JPL funding distribution for FY061.550 billion
business base
By NASA Office or Other Sponsor
By Implementing JPL Directorates
Percentages based on actual funding received
through February 2006
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Eighteen spacecraft and five instruments across
the solar system (and beyond).
Cassini studying Saturn
Spitzer studying stars and galaxies in the
infrared
Stardust carrier continuing after sample return
GALEX surveying galaxies in the ultraviolet
Ulysses and ACRIMSAT studying the sun
Deep Impact carrier continuing after hitting
comet Tempel 1
QuikScat, Jason 1, CloudSat, and GRACE (plus
ASTER, MISR, AIRS, MLS and TES instruments)
monitoring Earth.
Two Voyagers on an interstellar mission
Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, and MRO in
orbit around Mars. Spirit and Opportunity in
extended missions.
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JPL Upcoming Events
QuikScat, Jason 1, CloudSat, and GRACE (plus
ASTER, MISR, AIRS, MLS and TES instruments)
monitoring Earth.
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Geant4 Use at JPL

• Surface radiation environment at the Moon and
  Mars
• Galileo Heavy Ion Counter (HIC) simulation
• SIM CCD simulation
• Device simulation for SEE evaluation
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Special thanks goes to..

• NASA Electronic Parts and Packaging Program
  (NEPP)
• JPL Reliability Engineering Office Mission
  Environment Group
• For sponsoring the workshop.

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Final Program4th Geant4 Space Users Workshop
and 3rd Spenvis Users Workshop
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Monday Program

• 0730 - 0830 Breakfast
• 0730 - 0900 Registration
• 0900 - 1230 Opening Session and Geant4 Session
  I (Chair Shawn Kang/Tom Jordan)
• 0900 Welcome Address (I. Jun, NASA JPL)
• 0915 Recent Developments in Geant4 Kernel (M.
  Asai, SLAC)
• 1000 Recent Developments in Geant4 Standard EM
  (V. Ivanchenko, CERN)
• 1030 Coffee/Tea
• 1100 Recent Developments in Geant4 Low-E EM
  (M.G. Pia, INFN-Genova)
• 1130 Recent Developments in Geant4 Hadronics (D.
  Wright, SLAC)
• 1200 Status and Plans for Geant4 INCL/ABLA
  Implementations for Ions (A. Heikkinen, HIP)
• 1230 - 1400 Lunch Break
• 1400 - 1800 Geant4 Session II (Chair Giovanni
  Santin/Petteri Nieminen)
• 1400 Overview of Ion Physics and requirements
  for space applications  (P. Truscott, QinetiQ)

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Tuesday Program

• 0730 - 0830 Breakfast
• 0800 - 0830 Registration
• 0830 - 1230 Geant4 Session III (Chair Randall
  Swimm/Martin Ratliff)
• 0830 An Update on the Goodness-of-Fit
  Statistical Toolkit  (S. Guatelli, INFN Genova)
• 0900 Simulation for LHC Radiation Background
  Optimization of Monitoring Detectors and
  Experimental Validation  (S. Guatelli, INFN
  Genova)
• 0930 ESA Space Physics List Unification of
  Physics Configurations of GRAS and MULASSIS  (V.
  Ivanchenko, CERN)
• 1000 Novice Status 2006 (T. Jordan, E.M.P.
  Consultants)
• 1030 Coffee/Tea
• 1100 Geant4 Microdosimetry for Aerospace
  Radiation Effects (P. Truscott, QinetiQ)
• 1130 GEANT4 and the Vanderbilt Radiation Effects
  Simulation Strategy, RADSAFE (R.A. Weller,
  Vanderbilt University)
• 1200 Applications of RADSAFE for Single Event
  Effects Analysis  (R.A. Reed, Vanderbilt
  University)
• 1230 - 1400 Lunch Break
• 1400 - 1800 Geant4 Session IV (Chair Pete
  Truscott/Tatsumi Koi)
• 1400 Space Environment Simulations of COMPTON
  Telescopes - Status and Outlook  (A. Zoglauer, UC
  Berkeley)
• 1430 GEANT4 Simulation for the Study of the
  Origins for the Background of the X-Ray CCD
  Camera On-board the Suzaku Satellite  (T. Anada,
  JAXA)

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Wednesday Program

• 0730 - 0830 Breakfast
• 0800 - 0830 Registration
• 0830 - 1230 Geant4-Spenvis Joint Session I
  (Chair Makoto Asai/Dennis Wright)
• 0830 Geant4 physics validation - 1 (V.
  Ivanchenko, CERN)
• 0855 Geant4 physics validation - 2 (M.G. Pia,
  INFN Genova)
• 0920 Geant4 physics validation - 3 (T. Koi,
  SLAC)
• 1000 Geant4 validation on proton stopping power
   (T. Aso, TNCMT)
• 1030 Coffee/Tea
• 1100 Validation of ion physics in Geant4 against
  carbon  (T. Sasaki, KEK)
• 1130 Solar Energetic Particle Environment
  Modelling Activities At ESA  (A. Glover,
  ESA/ESTEC)
• 1200 Total Ionising Dose Environment for a
  Jovian Mission Using GEANT4  (S. Kang, JPL)
• 1230 - 1400 Lunch Break
• 1400 - 1800 Geant4-Spenvis Joint Session II
  (Chair Insoo Jun/Makoto Asai)
• 1400 The New JPL Interplanetary Solar
  High-Energy Particle Environment Model  (I. Jun,
  JPL)
• 1430 Why and How to update the JPL91
  Interplanetary Proton Cumulated Fluence Model?
   (Glover, ESA/ESTEC)
• 1500 The Solar Energetic Particle Environment
  How to Transition from Science to International
  Standard Models (S.B. Gabriel, Univ. Southampton)
• 1530 Coffee/tea

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Thursday Program

• 0730 - 0830 Breakfast
• 0800 - 0830 Registration
• 0830 - 1200 Spenvis Users' Workshop (Chair
  Robert Singleterry)
• 0830 SPENVIS Utilisation in Education at the
  Department of Space Science, Lulea University of
  Technology  (J. Ejemalm, Lulea University of
  Technology)
• 0900 Radiation Modelling Activities at JPL (H.
  Garrett, JPL)
• 1000 Coffee/Tea
• 1030 Update and recent developments on SPENVIS
  (B. Quaghebeur, BIRA)
• 1115 Discussion and Workshop Conclusions
• 1200 - 1300 Lunch Break
• 1300 - 1800 JPL Tour
• Bus departs the workshop site at 1300 sharp.
• For non-US citizen of 18 or older, a passport is
  required. For US citizen of 18 or older,
  government-issued photo-ID is required.
• The tour includes considerable walking and stair
  climbing.
• Cameras are allowed on the tour and photographs
  may be taken at any area visited.

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Friday Program

• 0730 - 0830 Breakfast
• 0830 - 1230 Geant4 Short Course (Chair Makoto
  Asai)
• 0830 Guided Tour of Geant4 Physics List - 1 -
  Based on Advanced Examples (M.G. Pia,
  INFN-Genova)
• 0915 Guided Tour of Geant4 Physics List - 2 -
  Based on Process / Model Catalogue (D. Wright,
  SLAC)
• 1000 Scorer and Sensitive Detector Filter (T.
  Aso, TNCMT)
• 1030 Coffee/Tea
• 1100 Nested Parameterization Volume (M. Asai,
  SLAC)
• 1130 Visualization (J. Perl, SLAC)
• 1200 Q/A
• 1230 Adjourn