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Comparative analysis of the secondary electron yield from carbon nanoparticles and pure water medium

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The production of secondary electrons generated by carbon nanoparticles and pure water medium irradiated by fast protons is studied by means of model approaches and Monte Carlo simulations. It is demonstrated that due to a prominent collective response to an external field, the nanoparticles embedded in the medium enhance the yield of low-energy electrons. The maximal enhancement is observed for electrons in the energy range where plasmons, which are excited in the nanoparticles, play the dominant role. Electron yield from a solid carbon nanoparticle composed of fullerite, a crystalline form of C60 fullerene, is demonstrated to be several times higher than that from liquid water. Decay of plasmon excitations in carbon-based nanosystems thus represents a mechanism of increase of the low-energy electron yield, similar to the case of sensitizing metal nanoparticles. This observation gives a hint for investigation of novel types of sensitizers to be composed of metallic and organic parts.

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  1. MBN Research Center, Altenhöferallee 3, 60438, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Alexey Verkhovtsev, Andrei V. Korol & Andrey V. Solov’yov

  2. A.F. Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Politekhnicheskaya ul. 26, 194021, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Alexey Verkhovtsev & Andrey V. Solov’yov

  3. Centre for Medical Radiation Physics (CMRP), University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia

    Sally McKinnon, Susanna Guatelli & Anatoly Rosenfeld

  4. Departament de Física Aplicada, Universitat d’Alacant, Alicante, Spain

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    Pablo de Vera

  6. Department of Physics, Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan, 48309, USA

    Eugene Surdutovich

  7. Illawarra Health and Medical Research Institute (IHMRI), University of Wollongong, NSW, Australia

    Susanna Guatelli & Anatoly Rosenfeld

  8. Department of Physics, St. Petersburg State Maritime Technical University, Leninskii pr. 101, 198262, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Andrei V. Korol

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Verkhovtsev, A., McKinnon, S., de Vera, P. et al. Comparative analysis of the secondary electron yield from carbon nanoparticles and pure water medium. Eur. Phys. J. D 69, 116 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2015-50908-y

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