Effect of the Bethe surface description on the electronic excitations induced by energetic proton beams in liquid water and DNA

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 268, Issue 11-12, 2010, Pages 1763-1767

  Abril, Isabel ^a   Denton, Cristian D ^a   de Vera, Pablo ^a   Kyriakou, Ioanna ^b   Emfietzoglou, Dimitris ^b   Garcia Molina, Rafael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dielectric formalism; DNA target; Electronic excitations; Energy loss; Energy loss function; Liquid water; Proton beams

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC FORMALISM; DNA TARGETS; ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; ENERGY LOSS; LIQUID WATER; LOSS FUNCTIONS;

DNA; ELECTRIC FURNACES; ELECTRON ENERGY LOSS SPECTROSCOPY; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY DISSIPATION; GENES; ION BEAMS; LIQUIDS; MANNED SPACE FLIGHT; PROTON BEAMS; PROTONS; RADIATION DAMAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION;

TARGETS;

EID: 77953135243     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nimb.2010.02.069     Document Type: Article

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