• Particle-Induced X-Ray Emission or Proton-Induced X-Ray Emission (PIXE) is a technique used for determining the elemental composition of a material or...
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    shells, which results in the emission of a characteristic X-ray. This process is termed particle-induced X-ray emission and is relatively easy to detect...
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  • Particle-induced gamma-ray emission (PIGE) spectroscopy is a form of nuclear reaction analysis, one of the ion beam analysis thin-film analytical techniques...
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    charged particles such as electrons or protons can be used to excite a sample rather than X-rays. This is called particle-induced X-ray emission or PIXE...
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    other heavier particles in particle-induced X-ray emission and electrons or X-ray photons in energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy or X-ray fluorescence...
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  • resonance (NMR) Optical microscopy Optical emission spectroscopy Optical rotation (OR) Particle induced X-ray emission spectroscopy (PIXE) Pyrolysis gas chromatography...
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    X-ray fluorescence (XRF) is the emission of characteristic "secondary" (or fluorescent) X-rays from a material that has been excited by being bombarded...
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  • fluorescence spectroscopy, particle-induced X-ray emission, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and wavelength-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy. Spectral line...
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    gamma rays are a rapid subtype of radioactive gamma decay. In certain cases, the excited nuclear state that follows the emission of a beta particle or other...
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  • PXE (disambiguation) Pyx Pixey, English indie pop musician Particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE), a technique for analyzing the composition of materials...
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    ions, including Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS), particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE), accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS), Elastic recoil...
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    fast protons or other positive ions. The proton-induced X-ray emission or particle-induced X-ray emission is widely used as an analytical procedure. For...
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    light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays. All forms of EMR travel at the speed of light in a vacuum and exhibit wave–particle duality, behaving both...
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  • In physics, induced gamma emission (IGE) refers to the process of fluorescent emission of gamma rays from excited nuclei, usually involving a specific...
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    telescope that can see x-ray radiation which standard optical telescopes, such as the Mauna Kea Observatories, cannot. X-ray emission is expected from astronomical...
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    Sea Scroll fragments is from the Qumran area, by using X-ray and particle-induced X-ray emission testing of the water used to make the parchment that were...
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  • gravimetric analysis IGF – Inert gas fusion IIX – Ion induced X-ray analysis, see particle induced X-ray emission INS – Ion neutralization spectroscopy Inelastic...
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  • with Materials and Atoms. 14th International Conference on Particle Induced X-ray Emission. 363: 79–85. Bibcode:2015NIMPB.363...79A. doi:10.1016/j.nimb...
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    Alpha particles, also called alpha rays or alpha radiation, consist of two protons and two neutrons bound together into a particle identical to a helium-4...
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    the inner electronic structure of atoms such as X-ray fluorescence, particle-induced X-ray emission, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and Auger electron...
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    University. The APXS instrument takes advantage of particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) and X-ray fluorescence, previously exploited by the Mars Pathfinder...
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  • over the possibility of "triggering" rapid energy releases, via gamma-ray emission, from 178m2Hf, a nuclear isomer of hafnium. The energy release per event...
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    analysis: petrographic analysis, neutron activation, x-ray fluorescence, particle-induced x-ray emission, individual flake analysis and mass analysis. Another...
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    Alain; Guicharnaud, H; Dran, Jean-Claude (November 2004). "Particle induced X-ray emission: a valuable tool for the analysis of metalpoint". Nuclear Instruments...
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  • replaced about every 5 years. Medical linear particle accelerators, developed since the 1940s, began replacing X-ray and cobalt units in the 1980s and these...
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  • Accélérateur Grand Louvre d'analyse élémentaire (category Particle accelerators)
    items in the path of the particle beams. The techniques used at AGLAE include particle-induced X-ray and gamma-ray emission spectrometries. The data is...
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    Cherenkov radiation (category Particle physics)
    18 MV ranges. The secondary electrons induced by these high energy x-rays result in the Cherenkov light emission, where the detected signal can be imaged...
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  • Field electron emission, also known as field-induced electron emission, field emission (FE) and electron field emission, is the emission of electrons from...
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  • detection is sensitive to light elements in a heavy matrix PIXE: Particle-induced X-ray emission gives the trace and minor elemental composition NRA: Nuclear...
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    Thomas Cahill at the University of California, Davis, using particle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) found that only trace amounts (<  0.0062% by weight)...
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