Specific heat of MgB2 after irradiation

@article{Wang2002SpecificHO,
  title={Specific heat of MgB2 after irradiation},
  author={Yuxing Wang and Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric Bouquet and I. Sheikin and Pierre Toulemonde and Bernard Revaz and Michael Eisterer and Harald W. Weber and Joerg Hinderer and Alain F. Junod},
  journal={Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter},
  year={2002},
  volume={15},
  pages={883-893}
}
We studied the effect of disorder on the superconducting properties of polycrystalline MgB2 by specific-heat measurements. In the pristine state, these measurements give a bulk confirmation of the presence of two superconducting gaps with 2Δ0/kBTc = 1.3 and 3.9 with nearly equal weights. The scattering introduced by irradiation suppresses Tc and tends to average the two gaps although less than predicted by theory. We also found that by a suitable irradiation process by fast neutrons, a… 
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