Proton Track-Structure in Biological Matter

M.A. QUINTO; J.M. MONTI; M.E. GALASSI; P. WECK; O. FOJON; J. HANSSEN; R. RIVAROLA; C. CHAMPION

San Carlos de Bariloche

Conferencia; 17th International Conference on the Physics of Highly Charged Ions; 2014

Instituto de Fisica de Rosario - Centro Atomico Bariloche

Several numerical codes for proton and electron transport in water - a commonly used surrogate of the living matter - have been reported in the literature. In the current work, we report on a home-made step-by-step Monte Carlo code, called TILDA-V, based on a complete set of multiple-differential and total cross sections for describing all the inelastic processes occurring throughout the slowing-down of protons in water and DNA.