Table 3 Direct-damage parameters of this work and previous Monte Carlo simulations.

From: New damage model for simulating radiation-induced direct damage to biomolecular systems and experimental validation using pBR322 plasmid

Parameter

Friedland (2003)

Meylan (2017)

Sakata (2019)

Sakata (2020)

This work

Rdir (Å)

2VDWR

VDWR

4.5

3.5

3.4

\({{E}_{min}^{break}}(eV)\)

5

17.5

5

5

12.4@phosphate

30.5@deoxyribose

\({{E}_{max}^{break}}(eV)\)

37.5

17.5

37.5

37.5

12.4@phosphate

30.5@deoxyribose

  1. \({R}_{dir}\) Accumulation radius of energy deposition from nucleotide center, \({E}_{min}^{break}\) Minimum energy of direct strand break probability, \({E}_{max}^{break}\) Maximum energy of direct strand break probability model, VDWR Summation of atomic volume with each atomic van der Waals radius.
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