  High-energy incident particles from both pulsed and continuous radiation
sources can induce significant damage to the structure of a material by
creating vacancy-interstitial pairs and other more complex defects, and this
leads typically to localized melting. In this work, we present evidence via
molecular dynamics simulations of a superheated solid state in BCC tungsten
induced by single PKA events of $\sim$ 1.5 keV of energy. Despite the striking
difference between this highly inhomogeneous energy injection and homogeneous
melting, the lifetime of the obtained superheated solid state, reaching up to
200 ps, is described through a waiting time distribution in agreement with
previous studies on superheating in the Z-method methodology.
