Chain of phase transitions in metals subjected to heavy inert gas ion bombardment

The totality of new phenomena taking place on heavy inert gas (Ar, Kr, Xe) ion bombardment of metals was under study in this work. Such phenomena are: grains creation in metals, their crystallization, melting and anomalous thermal desorption bound to these. We suggest that all of these phenomena originate from the presence of mutually interacting complexes made of heavy inert gas atoms and vacancies in such metals. A model of one of phase transitions in irradiated metal layer is proposed.