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Velocity effect in swift heavy ion irradiation: how the low- and high-energy track formation thresholds meet

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Variations of the threshold of swift heavy ion track formation with the ion energy and mass are studied here. We apply the hybrid multiscale approach combining TREKIS-3 code describing the electronic kinetics with the classical molecular dynamics tracing the evolution of the excited lattice. The results demonstrate that with a lowering of the energy loss curve (by choosing lighter ions for irradiation), the high-velocity threshold starts to shift down, whereas the low-velocity one remains constant until the thresholds meet. For certain ion parameters, a situation is possible in which both thresholds (low- and high-velocity) lie at the low-energy shoulder of the Bragg curve which results from the mismatch between the ion energy positions of the maximal track radius and the Bragg peak.

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This work has been carried out in part using computing resources of the Federal collective usage center Complex for Simulation and Data Processing for Mega-science Facilities at NRC “Kurchatov Institute”, http://ckp.nrcki.ru/. The work of RR and AEV was funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (grant number AP09259476). NM gratefully acknowledges financial support from the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (grants No. LTT17015, LM2018114, and No. EF16_013/0001552).

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  1. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Joliot-Curie 6, 141980, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia

    R. A. Rymzhanov

  2. The Institute of Nuclear Physics, Ibragimov St. 1, 050032, Almaty, Kazakhstan

    R. A. Rymzhanov

  3. Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Na Slovance 1999/2, 182 21, Prague, Czech Republic

    N. Medvedev

  4. Institute of Plasma Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Za Slovankou 3, 182 00, Prague, Czech Republic

    N. Medvedev

  5. P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskij pr., 53, 119991, Moscow, Russia

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Rymzhanov, R.A., Medvedev, N. & Volkov, A.E. Velocity effect in swift heavy ion irradiation: how the low- and high-energy track formation thresholds meet. J Mater Sci 58, 14072–14079 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-023-08898-2

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