Identification of an unusual source of background signals in energy dispersive PIXE analysis - A detective story

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms

Volumn 136-138, Issue , 1998, Pages 831-836

  Hietel, B ^a   Wittmaack, K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Background; Be window; PIXE; Proton transmission

Indexed keywords

POLYPROPYLENES; PROTONS; WAVE FILTERS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

ENERGY DISPERSIVE PROTON INDUCED X RAY ANALYSIS (PIXE);

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION;

EID: 0032017085     PISSN: 0168583X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-583X(97)00753-2     Document Type: Article

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