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We present a study of the effect of heavy-ion irradiation on a thinned single crystal of the unconventional heavy fermion superconductor CeCoIn5. Magnetic susceptibility and low-temperature specific heat results show that the superconducting transition temperature (T c) changed only 4% with irradiation of 1×1012 ions/cm2, Energy=1 GeV, while the specific heat jump at T c, ΔC, divided by C n, where C n is the normal state specific heat just above T c, was reduced to 3.6 from ΔC/C n=4.5 for unirradiated CeCoIn5. The increase of low-temperature magnetic susceptibility and the saturation in magnetization suggest that the defects induced by heavy-ion irradiation are magnetic in nature, as was seen in the case of neutron irradiation on the heavy fermion superconductors, UBe13 and UPt3. The non-Fermi liquid behavior of the irradiated sample, based on the temperature dependence of the low temperature magnetic susceptibility, is significantly altered.
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Kim, J.S., Bedorf, D. & Stewart, G.R. Effect of Disorder Induced by Heavy-Ion Irradiation on CeCoIn5 Superconductivity. J Low Temp Phys 157, 29–35 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-009-9932-9
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