Dose-Rate Dependence of the Impurity-Defect Interaction in Silver

Abstract

The ${}_{}{}^{111}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Cd}$ hyperfine quadrupole interaction due to the effect of radiation damage was studied following the reaction ${}_{}{}^{109}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{Ag}(\alpha , 2n){}_{}{}^{111}{}_{}{}^{}\mathrm{In}$ In in silver at 80 K. A strong dose-rate dependence is observed, which is related to interactions between recoil-damage cascades.