Laboratory and synchrotron X-ray spectroscopy

Vincze, László; Tack, Pieter; Laforce, Brecht; Pauw, Ella De; Bauters, Stephen; Silversmit, Geert; Vekemans, Bart

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-818860-6.00007-6

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“…However, this approach necessitates the recording of XRS spectra for each voxel throughout the entire sample volume on a fine energy grid, which is both time-consuming for larger sample volumes and results in heavy, potentially harmful, , X-ray doses deposited in the sample.…”

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Identification of the Calcium, Aluminum, and Magnesium Distribution within Millimeter-Sized Extraterrestrial Materials Using Nonresonant X-ray Raman Spectroscopy in Preparation for the Hayabusa2 Sample Return Mission

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The nondestructive investigation of millimetersized meteoritic materials is often hindered by self-absorption effects. Using X-ray-based analytical methods, the information depth for many elements (Z < 30) is in the range of up to only a few hundred micrometers, and for low-Z elements (Z < 20), this is reduced even further to only a few tens of micrometers. However, the investigation of these low-Z elements, in particular calcium, aluminum, and magnesium, is of great importance to planetary geologists and cosmochemists, as these elements are regularly used to characterize and identify specific features of interest in extraterrestrial materials, especially primitive chondritic material. In this work, nonresonant inelastic X-ray scattering from core electrons was performed at beamline ID20 of the ESRF in a direct tomography approach in order to visualize these low-Z elements within the millimeter-sized meteoritic samples. The obtained 3D elemental distribution volumes were compared to results from Xray fluorescence-CT and absorption CT experiments and were found to be in good agreement. Additionally, several regions of interest could be identified within the inelastic scattering volumes, containing information that is not available through the other presented means. As such, the proposed approach presents a valuable tool for the nondestructive investigation of low-Z elemental distributions within millimeter-sized extraterrestrial materials, such as the samples of the Hayabusa2 sample return mission.

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