Wavelength-dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy of rare-earth elements in extraterrestrial material and deep-Earth diamonds enabled by

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The aim of this proposal is to investigate the application of highly-curved HAPG analyzer crystals in WD-XRF spectroscopy for the simultaneous analysis of lanthanides in unique extraterrestrial materials and explore its 3D voxel scanning capabilities at low excitation energies. For this a novel analysis technique is proposed to obtain non-destructive, selective volume information of rare earth elements (REEs) in µm-sized analogues of coarse grain asteroid samples in preparation for the initial analysis of materials from asteroid sample return missions. The combination of cylindrical HAPG optics with ultra-high curvature having a mm-sized working distance is expected to provide higher throughput and collimation as compared to high energy resolution fluorescence detection (HERFD) spectroscopy.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.15151/ESRF-ES-895887601
Metadata Access https://icatplus.esrf.fr/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatplus.esrf.fr:inv/895887601
Provenance
Creator Frank E. BRENKER ORCID logo; Alexey MELNIKOV ORCID logo; Pieter TACK ORCID logo; Benjamin BAZI; Martin ROSENTHAL ORCID logo
Publisher ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility)
Publication Year 2025
Rights CC-BY-4.0; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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Representation
Resource Type Data from large facility measurement; Collection
Discipline Particles, Nuclei and Fields