Radiation chemistry of high-energy carbon, neon, and argon ions: hydrated electron yields.

Neutral aqueous solutions of sodium nitrate/ethanol have been irradiated with high-energy heavy ions from the Berkeley Bevalac. Yields of nitrite have been used to estimate G values for the hydrated electron as a function of the residual range of these ions. Values of G(e-aq) have been estimated as a function of ion energy by adjusting the measured values for the effects of heavy ion fragmentation.