Jain-Lidiard model calculations of radiation damage in sodium chloride

In this paper numerical results on radiation damage of NaCl, obtained with an improved version of the Jain-Lidiard model are presented. The major radiation damage products are colloidal Na particles and Cl2 molecules, both embedded in the NaCl lattice. The geometry of the metallic Na particles is likely to be fractal. It is shown that the assumption of a fractal dimensionality leads to theoretical damage concentrations which are appreciably smaller than predicted by the original Jain-Lidiard model in which a nonfractal (Euclidean) dimension of the colloidal particles is assumed. (orig.)