EC-6: Model questions

1. a) What is the energy transferred to a target atom from an incident ion in binary elastic
collision? (2 marks), b) What are the conditions for maximum energy transfer? (2 marks)
[Ans: Class 2, slides- 12 & 13]
2.Define a) Differential energy transfer cross section (1 mark) and b) Total collision cross
section ( 1 mark), and c) what is the relation between the total energy transfer cross section
and differential energy transfer cross section? (1 mark) [ Ans: Class 2, slides-17 & 18]
3. Define a) Mean free path and stopping power (1 mark), and b) total range and projected
range (1 mark) of projectile particles in materials. [No equations are needed, Ans: class-2,
slides-21&24]
4. a) What is the importance of potential functions in radiation damage? (1 mark), b) Write a
short note on the applicability of Born-Mayer, screened Coulomb and Coulomb potentials in
radiation damage (3 marks). [No equations are needed, Ans: class -3, slide-8]
5. What is displacement threshold energy? What is single displacement energy concept? ( 2
marks) [Ans: class-3, slides 25 & 26]
6. a) Explain the Kinchin-Pease model of displacement damage. ( 5 marks or more) [All 6
assumptions are needed, Ans: Class-4, slides- 5 to 8]
7. a) What are the three weakest assumptions in Kinchin-Pease model? How are they
corrected in the NRT model? (3 marks) [class 4, slides:10-12] and b) What is the modified
Kinchin-Pease (or NRT) model of displacement damage? (2 marks) [Ans: class 4, slides: 15
&16]
8. What are a) focusing, b) channeling, c) replacement collisions and d) assisted focusing? (1
mark each) [Ans: class-4, slides: 18, 24, 26]
10. Write any two advantages and disadvantages of positron annihilation spectroscopy. (2
marks) [Ans: Class-6, slide: 30]
11. Write any four advantages and disadvantages of ion beam simulation of radiation
damage. (4 marks) [Ans: class-7, slides-13 &14]
12. Write any four radiation damage issues in plasma-facing materials of fusion reactors. (2
marks) [Ans: Class-7, slide-26]
13. What is void distribution function? How to find out the average void size and void
swelling using void distribution function? (3 marks) [Ans: class-8, slide6]
14. What is irradiation creep? How is it different from thermal creep? What is the difference
between irradiation-enhanced creep and irradiation-induced creep? (3 marks) [Ans: class-8,
slides-28-30]
15. What is irradiation hardening? (1 mark) (Ans: Class-8, slide32)
16. What are Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS) (2 marks)? Write any two advantages of ADS.
(2 marks) (Class-1, slides: 28-29)
17. What is a) a primary knock-on atom (PKA) and b) displacement per atom (dpa)? (2
marks) [ Ans: Class1, slide-4]
18. a) What is the difference between thermal and fast nuclear reactors? (1 marks), b) what
is a fast breeder reactor (FBR)? And how breeding is achieved in FBR’s? (2marks) [Ans: Slide-
7, 15, 16]