radhub.rpp.rpp

radhub.rpp.rpp(F, w, h, l, Qcrit, density=2.321, ionization=3.6)

The rectangular parallelepiped method for single event rate calculations.

Parameters

• w (float) – RPP dimension of width w cm

• h (float) – RPP dimension of height h cm

• l (float) – RPP dimension of length l cm

• Qcrit (float) – Critical charge in pC

• density (float, optional) – Target material density in g/cm3, default 2.32

• ionization (float, optional) – Ionization energy in eV, default 3.6

Returns

event rate per second

Return type

float

References

[1] J. H. Adams, “Cosmic Ray Effects on Microelectronics. Part IV.,” NRL Memorandum Report 5901 (December 1986).