Journal
JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS
Volume 469, Issue -, Pages 244-250Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2015.12.004
Keywords
Ion irradiation; Borosilicate glasses; Hardness; Defect recovery; Saturation dose
Funding
- CEA Vestale project
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Simple and complex borosilicate glasses were irradiated with single and double ion beams of light and heavy ions over a broad fluence and stopping power range. As a result of the heavy ion irradiation (U, Kr, Au), the hardness was observed to diminish and saturate after a decrease by 35 +/- 1%. Unlike slow and swift heavy ion irradiation, irradiation with light ions (He,O) induced a saturation hardness decrease of 18 1% only. During double ion beam irradiation; where glasses were first irradiated with a heavy ion (gold) and then by a light ion (helium), the light ion irradiation induced partial damage recovery. As a consequence of the recovery effect, the hardness of the pre-irradiated glasses increased by 10-15% depending on the chemical composition. These results highlight that the nuclear energy loss and high electronic energy loss (>= 4 keV/nm) result in significant and similar modifications whereas light ions with low electronic energy loss (<= 1 keV/nm) result in only mild damage formation in virgin glasses and recovery in highly pre-damaged glasses. These results are important to understand the damage formation and recovery in actinide bearing minerals and in glasses subjected to self-irradiation by alpha decays. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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