“…The amorphization process is less possible in our experiment because, for an energy of the incident ions beam of 0.66 GeV and a minimum thickness of the sample absorbing the energy of the ions corresponding to R p = 157 μm, the calculated increase in local temperature inside the individual track, (Δ T ), determined by uniform energy deposition is <5 °C. Δ T is given by the equation, where δ benzil cristal = 1.23 g/cm 3 , c benzil crystal = 1.169 Jg −1 K −1 and the volume of benzil affected by one Ni ion passage is approximated with a cylinder. Therefore we can suppose that benzil is not melted along the track.…”