title: Twenty years of space radiation physics at the BNL AGS and NASA Space Radiation Laboratory.
abstract: Highly ionizing atomic nuclei HZE in the GCR will be a significant source of radiation exposure for humans on extended missions outside low Earth orbit. Accelerators such as the LBNL Bevalac and the BNL AGS, designed decades ago for fundamental nuclear and particle physics research, subsequently found use as sources of GCR-like particles for ground-based physics and biology research relevant to space flight. The NASA Space Radiation Laboratory at BNL was constructed specifically for space radiation research. Here we review some of the space-related physics results obtained over the first 20 years of NASA-sponsored research at Brookhaven.
authors.affiliation: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States . Electronic address: j_miller@lbl.gov.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.affiliation: Lockheed Martin Information Services & Global Solutions, 625 Bay Area Blvd. #800, Houston, TX 77058, United States.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zeitlin
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D003359:Cosmic Radiation; D006283:Health Physics; D006801:Humans; D007753:Laboratories / Q000592:standards*; D010315:Particle Accelerators / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011853:Radiobiology; D013026:Space Flight; D014481:United States; D018557:United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration
keywords: Space radiation physics