Experimental Study of Electronic Energy Loss Effects in Pure Metals

Key words: 
• swift heavy ion /
• pure metal /
• electronic energy loss effect

Abstract:  As swift heavy ions are available for irradiation damage study, it has been tried to evidence whether electronic energy loss might play a role in the damage processes of metallic targets. Experimental investigations showed that, as increase of electronic energy loss, large amount of electronic energy loss can result in radiation annealing of part of defects produced by elastic collisions, defect creation, latent track formation, as well as phase transition, and so on. Pure metals...