Annealing behavior of alpha recoil tracks in phlogopite

Reconstructing Nuclear Recoil Tracks in the Dark

Astrophysical evidence indicates that 23% of our universe's energy density is in the form of nonluminous, nonbaryonic matter referred to as dark matter. One theoretically appealing dark matter candidate is the Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP). Because of astrophysical dynamics, the detectable signal from the expected WIMP dark matter halo should exhibit a unique daily directional modu...

Different shapes of tracks in phlogopite, biotite and soda lime glass

Etched track opening geometries in Biotite, Phlogopite and soda-lime glass irradiated with swift heavy ions [197Au(11.64 MeV/n), 136Xe(11.56 MeV/n), 58Ni(11.56 MeV/n)] at different angle of incidence have been studied using appropriate chemical etching technique. Different geometries (Hexagonal, irregular polygon, triangular in case of Biotite and Phlogopite, and circular & elliptical in case o...

Thermal annealing of unetched fission tracks in apatite

a Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1005, USA b School of Earth Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic 3010, Australia c Institute of Nuclear Physics, National Nuclear Centre, 010008 Astana, Kazakhstan d Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2104, USA e Depar...

Annealing Studies on Ion Tracks in Metallic Glasses

High energetic ions can lead to the formation of long columnar defects along the ion trajectories, so called “ion tracks”. In amorphous metals, overlapping tracks produce macroscopic anisotropic growth phenomena [1]. Characterization and imaging of single ion tracks in these materials is challenging and has been successful only in a few cases using chemical etching [2], scanning probe [3] and t...

Thermal annealing mechanisms of latent fission tracks: Apatite vs. zircon