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Oct 2011
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Xiaohui Fu, Yongliao Zou, Yongchun Zheng, Huaiyu He, Ziyuan Ouyang. Noble Gas Diffusion Mechanism in Lunar Soil Simulant Grains: Results from 4He+ Implantation and Extraction Experiments. Journal of Earth Science, 2011, 22(5): 566-577. doi: 10.1007/s12583-011-0207-4
Citation: Xiaohui Fu, Yongliao Zou, Yongchun Zheng, Huaiyu He, Ziyuan Ouyang. Noble Gas Diffusion Mechanism in Lunar Soil Simulant Grains: Results from 4He+ Implantation and Extraction Experiments. Journal of Earth Science, 2011, 22(5): 566-577. doi: 10.1007/s12583-011-0207-4

Noble Gas Diffusion Mechanism in Lunar Soil Simulant Grains: Results from 4He+ Implantation and Extraction Experiments

doi: 10.1007/s12583-011-0207-4
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the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China 2009AA122201

the National Natural Science Foundation of China 40904051

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  • Corresponding author: Yongliao Zou, ylzou@bao.ac.cn
  • Received Date: 20 Dec 2010
  • Accepted Date: 10 Mar 2011
  • Publish Date: 01 May 2011
  • Experiments on ion implantation were performed in order to better characterize diffusion of noble gases in lunar soil. 4He+ at 50 keV with 5×1016 ions/cm2 was implanted into lunar simulants and crystal ilmenite. Helium in the samples was released by stepwise heating experiments. Based on the data, we calculated the helium diffusion coefficient and activation energy. Lunar simulants display similar 4He release patterns in curve shape as lunar soil, but release temperatures are a little lower. This is probably a consequence of long-term diffusion after implantation in lunar soil grains. Variation of activation energy was identified in the Arrhenius plots of lunar simulants and Panzhihua (攀枝花) ilmenite. We conclude that noble gas release in lunar soil cannot be described as simple thermally activated volume diffusion. Variation of diffusion parameters could be attributed to physical transformation during high temperature. Radiation damage probably impedes helium diffusion. However, bubble radius growth during heating does not correlate with activation energy variation. Activation energy of Panzhihua ilmenite is 57.935 kJ/mol. The experimental results confirm that ilmenite is more retentive for noble gas than other lunar materials.

     

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