“…Such verification has not been performed yet to our knowledge, but there is experimental evidence of plasticity increase under low temperature subthreshold electron or gamma irradiation, which has been discovered in early sixties [7] and investigated extensively thereafter (see e.g., [8]). Single crystals of Zn, Sn, In and Pb have been irradiated at liquid nitrogen temperature (78 K) with electron flux density ranging from 10 17 to 10 18 m À2 s À1 and energies below and above the threshold displacement energies, the latter being 0.7 MeV (Zn), 0.8 MeV (Sn, In) and 1.2 MeV (Pb).…”