About

The conference is organized by the Laboratory for Ion Beam Interactions, Division of Experimental Physics, RuđerBošković Institute, Zagreb, in cooperation with the Department of Physics, University of Rijeka.

The PIXE conference is a biennial event with a long tradition of being the international forum to discuss recent developments and future prospects in particle induced X-ray spectrometry. The conference brings together physicists, engineers and scientists from different fields, including biology and medicine, environmental and earth sciences, cultural heritage and materials research.

Topics

Fundamental Physics

• Charged particles, electron and X-ray propagation in solids
• Ion-atom and electron-atom collisions
• Inner-shell transition physics
• Solid state effects

Hardware

• X-ray detectors and electronics
• Instrumentation developments
• Problems and solutions of merging PIXE with other techniques

Software

• Codes, revisions and new developments
• Algorithms
• Spectra fitting and simulation

Unsolved Problems

• Links to related techniques
• High and low beam energy PIXE
• Chemical speciation

New Fields of Application

• New methods, methodologies and
• PIXE based analytical techniques
• Combination of PIXE and other techniques
• Tough and challenging problems

Standard Analysis and Tutorials

• Software and analysis tutorials or workshops Atmospheric aerosol analysis
• Archaeometry and cultural heritage
• Biological/medical sample analysis
• Geological and environmental sample analysis
• Materials science

Commercial and Commercial-Like Presentations