Resemblance of Intratrack Processes as a Common Starting Point of Radiation Chemistry and Positron, Muon, and Mossbauer Spectroscopies

A comparison of the yields of final products (Fe-57(2+), Sn-119(2+)) of the transformation of Mossbauer nuclei (Co-57, Sn-119) in frozen aqueous and alcoholic glassy solutions with the Ps, Ms, and radiolytic-hydrogen formation probabilities in the same liquid media subjected to irradiation with positrons, muons, and fast electrons, respectively shows that the yields of Fe-57(2+), Sn-119(2+), Ps, Mu, and H-2 vary in similar manners with a change in the concentration of electron scavengers or the temperature of the medium. These correlations are a manifestation of a profound similarity between the primary processes occurring in ionizing-particle tracks. Obviously, the recombination of ion-electron pairs inside large swarms (blobs) involving H2O+, e(+), mu(+), Fe3+, and Sn-119(3+), respectively, is the most important process for understanding the formation of H-2, Ps, Mu, Fe-57(2+), and Sn-119(2+). DOI: 10.1134/S0018143910050036