| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1679755 | Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms | 2016 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Natural apatite samples with different F/Cl content from a variety of geological locations (Durango, Mexico; Mud Tank, Australia; and Snarum, Norway) were irradiated with swift heavy ions to simulate fission tracks. The annealing kinetics of the resulting ion tracks was investigated using synchrotron-based small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) combined with ex situ annealing. The activation energies for track recrystallization were extracted and consistent with previous studies using track-etching, tracks in the chlorine-rich Snarum apatite are more resistant to annealing than in the other compositions.
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Authors
A. Nadzri, D. Schauries, P. Mota-Santiago, S. Muradoglu, C. Trautmann, A.J.W. Gleadow, A. Hawley, P. Kluth,