Foundations and trends of high resolution energy dispersive PIXE (HiRED-PIXE)

High resolution energy dispersive spectrometry (HiREDS), a new tool for X-ray emission work

“…XMS systems therefore have an important role to play as an additional tool capable of making the bridge between WDS systems and semiconductor based spectrometers. First installed in 2008 the CTN HRHE-PIXE facility led to the establishment of HiREDS-PIXE, described in detail in previous studies 9,10 and to the development and optimization of the P2HA soware DSP code and the DT2 spectral tting soware that avoids the need to know all line ratios a priori in a group of transitions to the same subshell. Both are important tools for the production and handling of HiREDS spectra.…”

“…In the present work, details are presented on the developments carried out to be able to properly exploit the HRHE-PIXE facility and establish HiREDS 10 as a new approach on its own in the frame of X-ray emission spectrometry, XES. Problems and solutions starting at the transition edge sensor (TES) signal handling and HiREDS spectra generation, up to details on the demands imposed on software for spectral treatment, are discussed, and a U M-shell spectrum analysis is presented as an example case study showing the potential of HiREDS in the frame of fundamental parameter research work.…”