Monte Carlo Simulation of Energy Dissipation during the Cascade Decay of Inner-Shell Vacancies in an Iron Atom Placed in Water

• Published in: Journal of experimental and theoretical physics 2023-12, Vol.137 (6), p.800-813
• Main Authors: Chaynikov, A. P., Kochur, A. G., Dudenko, A. I.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Atoms; Classical and Quantum Gravitation; Decay; Electron impact; Electrons; Elementary Particles; Energy dissipation; Ionization; Iron; Mathematical analysis; Molecules; Monte Carlo method; Monte Carlo simulation; Optics; Particle and Nuclear Physics; Photoionization; Physics; Physics and Astronomy; Quantum Field Theory; Relativity Theory; Solid State Physics; Spectral emittance
• ISSN: 1063-7761; 1090-6509
• DOI: 10.1134/S1063776123120178

We have performed the Monte Carlo simulation of the processes of secondary ionization of water induced by cascade decays of inner-shell vacancies in an iron atom placed in water. We have obtained the spectra of electrons and photons emitted during the decay of vacancies in the K and L shells of the iron atom. The dependences of the number of secondary ionization events and the energy absorbed as a result of these processes on the radius of the sphere in which such processes occur have been calculated. The decay of a single 1 s vacancy in an iron atom generates on the average 232 events of secondary ionization induced by an electron impact, in which the energy of 3274 eV is absorbed, as well as 18 secondary photoionization events, in which the energy of 256 eV is absorbed. The dependences of the dose absorbed in water on the distance from the iron atom have been calculated.