Using a fluorescent probe for the OH-yield determination with high-LET particles

Maeyama, Takuya*; Yamashita, Shinichi; Baldacchino, G.*; Katsumura, Yosuke; Muroya, Yusa*; Taguchi, Mitsumasa; Kimura, Atsushi; Murakami, Takeshi*

Fluorescent probe 7-Hydroxy-coumarin-3-carboxylic acid, which is a product of reaction between Coumarin-3-carboxylic acid (CCA) and hydroxyl radical (OH), was applied to estimation of the yield of OH produced in water radiolysis with heavy ions of energies up to 28 GeV provided from HIMAC (Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba). LET was varied from 0.2 for -ray or fast electron beam to 346 eV/nm for iron ion beam. With changing the concentration of CCA in the range from 0.1 to 26 mM, scavenging time scale was varied from 4 ns to 1 s, at which time scale intra-track reactions between water decomposition radicals including OH are significant.