The Biological Effect of Very High Energy Hadrons
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Radiation Biology
- Vol. 39 (5) , 559-563
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09553008114550661
Abstract
The meristems of Vicia faba bean roots were irradiated at different depths in water in a 250 GeV/c positive hadron beam from the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). The growth during the 10 days following irradiation was determined and compared with results obtained from 60Co gamma-ray exposures. The data indicate a Relative Biological Efficiency (r.b.e.) near to one, independent of the contribution of secondaries to the dose. However, some anomalies in the radiation response of the irradiated beans were noted.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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