Ion beam analysis (IBA) at J. Stefan Inst.e

Low-energy accelerator based analytical methods serve as a precise, fast, multielemental, and nondestructive techniques for studies of materials. Several examples stemming from the above approach can be shown as serving the needs for investigation of materials used in the nuclear production technology. In the paper the fundamentals of some of these IBA methods are given in general. Between them PIXE (Proton Induced X-ray Emission), RBS (Rutherford Backscattering Spectometry), ERDA (Elastic Recoil Analysis), and NRA (Nuclear Reaction Analysis) are mentioned as tools for elemental composition and depth profiles determination.(author)