Proton Impact of Bimolecular Targets

Shadha J Khalaf, Khalid A Ahmad and Riayhd K. A Al-Ani

Journal of Asian Scientific Research, 2017, vol. 7, issue 8, 361-371

Abstract: For a better control and understanding of the effects of radiation damage in living tissues by using the irradiation of biological systems by energetic ion beams have multiple applications in medical physics and space radiation health, such as hadron therapy for cancer treatment and it is necessary to advance an accurate description of the energy loss from the ion beam to the target. In the present work the dielectric formalism like Drude has been used to calculate the probability for an energetic proton and to produce electronic excitations in five targets of high biological interest, namely, liquid water, DNA, PMMA, Adenine and Guanine. Also, the effects of ionization fraction on the mean excitation energy, average energy and Inelastic mean free path studied taking in to consideration electronic excitation in the target. Good agreement achieved with previous work.

Keywords: Hadron therapy; Organic compounds; Electronic excitation; DNA; Proton beams; Energy loss function; Liquid water (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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