Electron Attachment to Uracil: Effective Destruction at Subexcitation Energies

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 18, 2003, Pages 4-

  Hanel, G ^a   Gstir, B ^a   Denifl, S ^a   Scheier, P ^a   Probst, M ^a   Farizon, B ^a   Farizon, M ^a   Illenberger, E ^a   Mark T D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA; URACIL;

CHEMISTRY; DNA DAMAGE; ELECTRON; RADIATION RESPONSE;

DNA DAMAGE; ELECTRONS; RNA; URACIL;

CHEMICAL BONDS; DECOMPOSITION; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRONS; HYDROGEN; MOLECULES; MONOCHROMATORS; NEGATIVE IONS;

DISSOCIATIVE ELECTRON ATTACHMENT; ELECTRON AFFINITY; ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; HYDROGEN RADICAL; SUBEXCITATION ENERGIES; URACIL;

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

EID: 0037928811     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.188104     Document Type: Article

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