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Research question
Can an adaptive phase-state layer improve a protected-region deposition proxy beyond a passive slab, and how do geometry and latency bound that advantage?
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Method and experiment series
The evidence ledger moves through unshielded/passive baselines, adaptive and gated response, mixed-event stress, geometry/coverage scaling, latency sweeps, predictive control, and phase-advance compensation.
Series: S1.1–S1.9 · passive/adaptive · geometry · latency · phase advance
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Key results
- Adaptive control improves the protected-region deposition proxy over the passive baseline in the intended directional stress case.
- Coverage, thickness, and protected-region placement determine leakage and wall-load trade-offs.
- Uncompensated latency erodes the adaptive advantage; phase advance restores most of the delayed response across the tested sweep.
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What is not established
This is not an ab initio material calculation, full radiation-transport solver, biological dosimetry, spacecraft shield design, or device-level validation. The source and deposition readouts are synthetic proxies.
This work is a numerical proof-of-concept. It establishes model-level behaviour under the stated assumptions and does not replace independent laboratory validation.