Radiation Induced Reactions of Succinic Acid in Aqueous Solution: An Agent-Based Model

 

• Ana Leonor Rivera
  Institute of Nuclear Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Coyoacan-04510, CDMX, Mexico; Center for Complexity Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico
• Sergio Ramos-Beltran
  Institute of Nuclear Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Coyoacan-04510, CDMX, Mexico
• Alicia Negrón-Mendoza
  Institute of Nuclear Sciences, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Coyoacan-04510, CDMX, Mexico

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15415/jnp.2020.72014

Keywords: Radiation induced chemical reactions, Succinic Acid, Kinetics of reactions, Agent-based model

Abstract

An approach to studying the formation of critical bio-organic compounds in the early Earth is to simulate in the laboratory possible processes that may occur in primitive scenarios. In this context, it can be studied the evolution of succinic acid in an aqueous media exposed to gamma radiation, as starting material produced more complex prebiotic molecules. To describe the products generated by the interaction of the different elements under radiation, there is a mathematical model that considers chemical reactions as nonlinear ordinary differential equations based on the mass balance of all the species, that has been implemented here by an agent-based model. In this simulation, each chemical species involved is considered as an agent that can interact with other species with known reaction rates, and the radiation is taken as a factor that promotes product formation. The results from the agentbased model are compared with the molar concentrations of succinic acid, and its products obtained in the lab. Simulation shows the exponential decomposition of succinic acid due to gamma radiation at room temperature in agreement with the laboratory model.

 

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Issue

Vol 7 No 2 (2020): Special Issue 

 

 

How to Cite

Ana Leonor Rivera; Sergio Ramos-Beltran; Alicia Negrón-Mendoza. Radiation Induced Reactions of Succinic Acid in Aqueous Solution: An Agent-Based Model. J. Nucl. Phy. Mat. Sci. Rad. A. 2020, 7, 117-121.