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Radiolysis of pyridine in solid water

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We irradiated the complex organic molecule pyridine and mixtures of pyridine and water in the solid phase (thin icy films) at 12 K at different beam lines of the GANIL facility (ARIBE: 90 keV \(\hbox {O}^{\mathrm {6+}}\), SME: \(650\, \hbox {MeV Zn}^{\mathrm {26+}})\). The destruction of the initial molecule and the appearance of radiolytic products were followed by in-situ infrared absorption spectroscopy as a function of the projectile fluence with the CASIMIR experimental set-up of CIMAP. We measured the destruction cross section as a function of pyridine concentration. A clear dependence on the percentage of pyridine in \(\hbox {H}_{\mathrm {2}}\hbox {O}\) was found: the destruction cross sections are significantly higher for small concentration, i.e. pure pyridine is more radioresistant than pyridine diluted in water ice at 12 K. Thus, the presence of water environment significantly modifies the radiation resistance of the initial complex organic molecules: it enhances radiosensitivity and destruction of pyridine, with implications for radiobiology and astrochemistry.

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This manuscript has no associated data or the data will not be deposited. [Authors’ comment: The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.]

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Acknowledgements

We thank the staff of CIMAP and GANIL and among them all in particular T. Been, C. Feierstein, T. Madi, J.M. Ramillon, F. Ropars, P. Rousseau, P. Voivenel, L. Maunoury and our collaborators B. Augé, C. Desfrançois, F. Lecomte, B. Manil, R. Martinez, Gabriel S.V. Muniz and N. Nieuwjaer. We gratefully acknowledge funding from INSERM-INCa (Grant BIORAD), Région Normandie Fonds Européen de Développement Régional—FEDER Programmation 2014–2020, and a Ph.D. Grant from Région Normandie RIN 2018. The infrastructure of GANIL (Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lours, Caen, France) was used to do the research presented here. The research of Z.K. was supported by ENSAR2-Access-TNA GANIL and VEGA—the Slovak Grant Agency for Science (Grant No. 2/0023/18).

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Ada Bibang, P.C.J., Agnihotri, A.N., Boduch, P. et al. Radiolysis of pyridine in solid water. Eur. Phys. J. D 75, 57 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-021-00058-y

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