Study of the effect of irradiation with Proton beams on RNA

الملخص

   Radiation causes damage in chromosomes (which are mainly responsible for the transmission of genetic traits from cell to cell and from generation to generation) by directly affecting the hereditary material (DNA and RNA), which in turn leads to physical or mental deformities in children from birth resulting from exposure to one Parent or both of them to ionizing radiation (perhaps during pregnancy for the mother). However, irradiation has many applications in the field of medicine through radiation therapy for cancer patients, and one of its types is proton therapy, which uses beams of protons directed at the cancerous tumor. In this research, the special effects on RNA, which is short for Ribonucleic Acid, or RNA, were studied by knowing the energy loss of proton beams and calculating the stopping power to reach an accurate understanding of how radiation affects RNA compounds and knowing the energy loss by determining the Bragg peak of these compounds. The current work employs the dielectric formalism, Quantum Oscillator (QO) was utilized to evaluate the chance of an energetic proton producing electronic excitations in a high biological interest sample, RNA, that was used to assess the probability that an active proton would produce electronic excitations in a sample. Where the Fortran 90 language (Fortran PowerStation 4.0.) was used to program all mathematical equations.