ENHANCEMENTS IN THE LIVERMORE SPECTRUM ANALYSIS PACKAGE PIXEF

Authors
ANTOLAK AJ BENCH GS HILDNER ML
Citation
Aj. Antolak et al., ENHANCEMENTS IN THE LIVERMORE SPECTRUM ANALYSIS PACKAGE PIXEF, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms, 99(1-4), 1995, pp. 406-409
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Nuclear","Nuclear Sciences & Tecnology","Instument & Instrumentation
Journal title
Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms → ACNP
ISSN journal
0168583X
Volume
99
Issue
1-4
Year of publication
1995
Pages
406 - 409
Database
ISI
SICI code
0168-583X(1995)99:1-4<406:EITLSA>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
A number of enhancements have been incorporated into the Livermore par ticle-induced X-ray emission (PIXE) spectral fitting program PIXEF (fo r PIXE-FIT) in order to improve our quantitative analysis capability f or data collected with Si(Li) detectors. Some of the new features incl ude an improved description for the background which takes into accoun t X-ray absorption effects, a better representation of the line shapes using Voigtian distributions, and a better treatment of peak fitting in regions of poor counting statistics. The implementation of these im provements into PIXEF is described.