Track structure simulation

Track structure simulation has found application in many areas of radiation research since the pioneering studies of Mozumder and Magee [35]. These studies all employ essentially the same type of approach, a collision-to-collision modeling of the trajectory of the primary radiation particle and of its daughter secondary electrons, with the most significant difference between different calculations being the interaction cross sections used to describe the... 

The first of these factors reduces the complexity of the simulation, but the second has entirely the opposite effect as charge cycling events affect both the energy of the primary ion and its inelastic collision cross section. While the proximity of energy loss events does not affect the details of track structure simulation (at reasonable LET), it may cause significant complications in subsequent diffusion-kinetic calculations due to the (potentially unphysi-cally) high local concentration of radiation-induced reactants. 

Figure 11 Effect of temperature on the yield of OH radicals from gamma radiolysis. Experiments (A) Kent and Sims [100], ( ) Elliot et al. [101] Calculation (solid line) IRT modeling using track structure simulation.

Stahin, M. G., Hamm, R. N., Tnmer, J. E., and Bolch, W. E. 1994. Track structure simulation and determination of prodnct yields in the electron radiolysis of water containing various solutes. Radiat. Prot. Dosim. 52 255-258. 

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