ESC2RAD

ESC2RAD is a Research and Innovation H2020 project financed by the European Commission (Grant agreement 776410). It aims at improving the modelling of Space radiation-induced effects on both biological matter and functional materials for spacecraft, in contexts that are relevant for Space and planetary missions, especially in those energy ranges where there is room to ameliorate current Monte Carlo particle transport models. ESC2RAD will use ab-initio coupled ion-electron dynamics (Time Dependent Density Functional Theory, coupled with Ehrenfest Dynamics) to provide, for the first time, parameter-free input to Monte Carlo track structure codes for biological damage and the development of new risk models for Space exploration and will help ameliorating the Non-Ionizing Energy Loss (NIEL) model for materials degradation (in particular, spacecraft solar cells). The energy ranges in which such ab-initio models are relevant, allowing for treatments beyond the perturbative ones, and on which..

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