Abstract
In the present paper the effects of the room temperature X-irradiation in calcium and lead-doped NaCl have been reinvestigated in order to get a deeper insight into the nature of the radiation induced halogen interstitial traps. Special attention has been paid to determine whether a correlation exists between the change in the concentration of Ca 2+ (Pb 2+-cation vacancy dipoles and the color center formation. Our results indicate that for both systems, the dipoles are the fundamental traps for the interstitial defects in agreement with the theoretical models recently developed for F-center formation in alkali halides doped with divalent impurities. This conclusion is, however, in disagreement with that reported by Ikeya et al in a previous work on calcium-doped NaCl in which it was concluded that the isolated positive ion vacancies were the dominant traps for the halogen interstitial defects. Some comments about this discrepancy are given.
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