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Building on the demonstrated sensitivity of the Heavy Ion Monitor on a Chip (HIMoC) presented in Part I of this work, we performed additional irradiation exposures using 24.8 MeV/u beams of $^{14}$N, $^{22}$Ne, and $^{40}$Ar at the Texas…