Resonant Formation of DNA Strand Breaks
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Boudaïffa, B.
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Article
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2000
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American Association for the Advancement of Scienc
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English
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Most of the energy deposited in cells by ionizing radiation is channeled into the production of abundant free secondary electrons with ballistic energies between 1 and 20 electron volts. Here it is shown that reactions of such electrons, even at energies well below ionization thresholds, induce subs