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EP: Fachverband Extraterrestrische Physik

EP 3: Poster

EP 3.4: Poster

Monday, March 15, 2010, 17:45–19:00, AKM Foyer

¹⁰Be Production Calculations in the Atmosphere — •Klaudia Herbst¹, Daniel Matthiä², Friedhelm Steinhilber³, and Bernd Heber¹ — ¹IEAP, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany — ²Institut für Luft- und Raumfahrtmedizin, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, Köln, Germany — ³Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Ewag, Dübendorf, Switzerland

Cosmic Rays (CRs) interacting with the Earth’s atmosphere produce a cascade of secondary particles and cosmogenic nuclides. Cosmogenic nuclides itself are stored in natural archives such as ice cores and can therefore be measured by e.g. accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS). Here we present our calculations of the cosmogenic radionuclide ¹⁰Be, which is produced by spallation reactions between secondary neutrons and protons and the atmospheric gases nitrogen and oxygen, using PLANETOCOSMICS, a GEANT4 based computer code (Desorgher [2006]).