RIFFALD SOUZA BREUER, Jean-Paul Bernhard, Gábor GALGÓCZI, Valentina FIORETTI, Jakub ZLÁMAL, Petr LISKA, Norbert WERNER, Giovanni SANTIN, Nathalie BOUDIN, Ivo FERREIRA, Matteo GUAINAZZI, Andreas VON KIENLIN, Simone LOTTI, Teresa MINEO, Silvano MOLENDI and Emanuele PERINATI. Athena charged particle diverter simulations: effects of micro-roughness on proton scattering using Geant4. Online. In Jan-Willem A. den Herder, Shouleh Nikzad, Kazuhiro Nakazawa. Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 12181: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Washington: SPIE, 2022, p. 1-12. ISBN 978-1-5106-5343-6. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2630076.
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Original name Athena charged particle diverter simulations: effects of micro-roughness on proton scattering using Geant4
Authors RIFFALD SOUZA BREUER, Jean-Paul Bernhard (76 Brazil, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Gábor GALGÓCZI (348 Hungary, belonging to the institution), Valentina FIORETTI, Jakub ZLÁMAL, Petr LISKA, Norbert WERNER (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution), Giovanni SANTIN, Nathalie BOUDIN, Ivo FERREIRA, Matteo GUAINAZZI, Andreas VON KIENLIN, Simone LOTTI, Teresa MINEO, Silvano MOLENDI and Emanuele PERINATI.
Edition Washington, Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 12181: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, p. 1-12, 12 pp. 2022.
Publisher SPIE
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Original language English
Type of outcome Proceedings paper
Field of Study 10308 Astronomy
Country of publisher United States of America
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form electronic version available online
WWW URL URL
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/22:00126669
Organization unit Faculty of Science
ISBN 978-1-5106-5343-6
ISSN 0277-786X
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2630076
UT WoS 000865607100101
Keywords in English Geant4; Particle Scattering; Proton simulations; Scanning Probe Microscopy; Surface Roughness
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Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Marie Šípková, DiS., učo 437722. Changed: 19/1/2023 14:23.
Abstract
The last generation of X-ray focusing telescopes operating outside the Earth's radiation belt discovered that optics were able to focus not only astrophysical X-ray photons, but also low-energy heliophysical protons entering the Field of View (FOV). This "soft proton" contamination affects around 40\% of the observation time of XMM-Newton. The ATHENA Charged Particle Diverter (CPD) was designed to use magnetic fields to move these soft protons away from the FOV of the detectors, separating the background-contributing ions in the focused beam from the photons of interest. These magnetically deflected protons can hit other parts of the payload and scatter back to the focal plane instruments. Evaluating the impact of this secondary scattering with accurate simulations is essential for the CPD scientific assessment. However, while Geant4 simulations of grazing soft proton scattering on X-ray mirrors have been recently validated, the scattering on the unpolished surfaces of the payload (e.g. the baffle or the diverter itself) is still to be verified with experimental results. Moreover, the roughness structure can affect the energy and angle of the scattered protons, with a scattering efficiency depending on the specific target volume. Using Atomic Force Microscopy to take nanometer-scale surface roughness measurements from different materials and coating samples, we use Geant4 together with the CADMesh library to shoot protons at these very detailed surface roughness models to understand the effects of different material surface roughnesses, coatings, and compositions on proton energy deposition and scattering angles. We compare and validate the simulation results with laboratory experiments, and propose a framework for future proton scattering experiments.
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