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Revisited water radiolysis at elevated pH by accounting O 3 ˙ − kinetics at low and high LET

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Ozonide radical, O3˙−, is used in this study for probing radiolytic species formed in the radiolysis of liquid water at elevated pH. Its formation allows the scavenging of O˙− whereas its disappearing is due to its reactions with HO2− and O2˙−. This article focuses on the formation and the reaction of O3˙− at pH 13.2 by using pulse radiolysis technique, with 10 MeV electrons and 1 GeV C6+ ions beams for the first time. This allowed us to work with two different Linear Energy Transfer (LET) values (0.27 and 33 eV nm−1 respectively), which means with two different primary distributions of radiolytic species. Consequently the rates constant of reactions O3˙− + HO2− and O3˙− + O2˙− could be revised with acceptable accuracy thanks to deterministic simulations: (1.1 ± 0.2) × 106 M−1 s−1 and (1.5 ± 0.5) × 107 M−1 s−1 respectively. Furthermore, the primary radiolytic yields of HO˙/O˙− and H2O2/HO2− at high LET and pH 13.2 were estimated at 6.5 and 9.6 × 10−8 mol J−1 respectively which corresponds to the literature values.
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cea-03180028 , version 1 (24-03-2021)

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A. El Omar, G. Baldacchino, I. Monnet, P. Bouniol. Revisited water radiolysis at elevated pH by accounting O 3 ˙ − kinetics at low and high LET. RSC Advances, 2015, 5 (108), pp.89244-89253. ⟨10.1039/c5ra16858a⟩. ⟨cea-03180028⟩
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