International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Research Applications and Utilization of Accelerators
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AP/P3-12 Overview of Ion Beam Analysis Applications at the Lebanese Accelerator M. Roumié, B. Nsouli, and K. Zahraman Accelerator Laboratory, Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission, National Council for Scientific Research, Beirut, Lebanon Corresponding Author: mroumie@cnrs.edu.lb The 5SDH tandem accelerator facility was established within the IAEA TC project LEB 1003 at the Lebanese Atomic Energy Commission. Since its installation in 1999, Ion Beam Analysis techniques
IBA are performed, in order to provide elemental analysis in a wide range of applications. The
main strength of IBA is to be multi-elemental, fast and non destructive analysis and could be
performed simultaneously. Hence, they could determine the elemental composition of different
kind of samples, covering nearly the whole periodic table, with sensitivity for some elements of
ppm level (part per million). Furthermore, they can measure the stoichiometry and thickness
of thin films, or multilayer, elaborated on bulk materials with a possibility to perform elemental
depth profile. The analytical capabilities available on the facility include particle-induced X-ray
emission (PIXE), proton induced γ-ray emission (PIGE), Rutherford backscattering spectrometry
(RBS), nuclear reaction analysis (NRA) and elastic recoil detection analysis (ERDA). The most
undertaken research activities are related to IBA applications in materials science and archeology,
however, other applications in aerosols, pharmaceutical science and biomedicine will also be shown
as to summarize the different activities of the accelerator during the past few years.
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