Monte Carlo simulation of characteristic secondary fluorescence in electron probe microanalysis of homogeneous samples using the splitting technique

Fil: Petaccia Trobatto, Mauricio Germán. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física; Argentina.

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Main Authors: Petaccia Trobatto, Mauricio Germán, Seguí Osorio, Silvina Inda María, Castellano, Gustavo Eugenio
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11086/27481
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1431927615000495
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1431927615000495
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Seguí Osorio, Silvina Inda María
Castellano, Gustavo Eugenio
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spelling rdu-unc.274812022-10-13T11:08:35Z Monte Carlo simulation of characteristic secondary fluorescence in electron probe microanalysis of homogeneous samples using the splitting technique Petaccia Trobatto, Mauricio Germán Seguí Osorio, Silvina Inda María Castellano, Gustavo Eugenio EPMA Characteristic fluorescence enhancement Monte Carlo simulation Variance reduction publishedVersion Fil: Petaccia Trobatto, Mauricio Germán. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física; Argentina. Fil: Petaccia Trobatto, Mauricio Germán. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola; Argentina. Fil: Petaccia Trobatto, Mauricio Germán. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola; Argentina. Fil: Seguí Osorio, Silvina Inda María. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica. Centro Atómico Bariloche; Argentina. Fil: Seguí Osorio, Silvina Inda María. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Fil: Castellano, Gustavo Eugenio. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física; Argentina. Fil: Castellano, Gustavo Eugenio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola; Argentina. Fil: Castellano, Gustavo Eugenio. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola; Argentina. Electron probe microanalysis (EPMA) is based on the comparison of characteristic intensities induced by monoenergetic electrons. When the electron beam ionizes inner atomic shells and these ionizations cause the emission of characteristic X-rays, secondary fluorescence can occur, originating from ionizations induced by X-ray photons produced by the primary electron interactions. As detectors are unable to distinguish the origin of these characteristic X-rays, Monte Carlo simulation of radiation transport becomes a determinant tool in the study of this fluorescence enhancement. In this work, characteristic secondary fluorescence enhancement in EPMA has been studied by using the splitting routines offered by PENELOPE 2008 as a variance reduction alternative. This approach is controlled by a single parameter NSPLIT, which represents the desired number of X-ray photon replicas. The dependence of the uncertainties associated with secondary intensities on NSPLIT was studied as a function of the accelerating voltage and the sample composition in a simple binary alloy in which this effect becomes relevant. The achieved efficiencies for the simulated secondary intensities bear a remarkable improvement when increasing the NSPLIT parameter; although in most cases an NSPLIT value of 100 is sufficient, some less likely enhancements may require stronger splitting in order to increase the efficiency associated with the simulation of secondary intensities. publishedVersion Fil: Petaccia Trobatto, Mauricio Germán. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física; Argentina. Fil: Petaccia Trobatto, Mauricio Germán. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola; Argentina. Fil: Petaccia Trobatto, Mauricio Germán. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola; Argentina. Fil: Seguí Osorio, Silvina Inda María. Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica. Centro Atómico Bariloche; Argentina. Fil: Seguí Osorio, Silvina Inda María. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Fil: Castellano, Gustavo Eugenio. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física; Argentina. Fil: Castellano, Gustavo Eugenio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola; Argentina. Fil: Castellano, Gustavo Eugenio. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Instituto de Física Enrique Gaviola; Argentina. Física Atómica, Molecular y Química (física de átomos y moléculas incluyendo colisión, interacción con radiación, resonancia magnética, Moessbauer Efecto.) 2022-07-26T14:37:13Z 2015 article http://hdl.handle.net/11086/27481 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1431927615000495 https://doi.org/10.1017/S1431927615000495 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1431927615000495 eng Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International restrictedAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Impreso; Electrónico y/o Digital ISSN: 1431-9276 e-ISSN: 1435-8115
spellingShingle EPMA
Characteristic fluorescence enhancement
Monte Carlo simulation
Variance reduction
Petaccia Trobatto, Mauricio Germán
Seguí Osorio, Silvina Inda María
Castellano, Gustavo Eugenio
Monte Carlo simulation of characteristic secondary fluorescence in electron probe microanalysis of homogeneous samples using the splitting technique
title Monte Carlo simulation of characteristic secondary fluorescence in electron probe microanalysis of homogeneous samples using the splitting technique
title_full Monte Carlo simulation of characteristic secondary fluorescence in electron probe microanalysis of homogeneous samples using the splitting technique
title_fullStr Monte Carlo simulation of characteristic secondary fluorescence in electron probe microanalysis of homogeneous samples using the splitting technique
title_full_unstemmed Monte Carlo simulation of characteristic secondary fluorescence in electron probe microanalysis of homogeneous samples using the splitting technique
title_short Monte Carlo simulation of characteristic secondary fluorescence in electron probe microanalysis of homogeneous samples using the splitting technique
title_sort monte carlo simulation of characteristic secondary fluorescence in electron probe microanalysis of homogeneous samples using the splitting technique
topic EPMA
Characteristic fluorescence enhancement
Monte Carlo simulation
Variance reduction
url http://hdl.handle.net/11086/27481
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1431927615000495
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1431927615000495
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1431927615000495
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