Cement analysis by PIPS: comparison of the effect of different charged particle beams

The manufacture of cements involves the processing of geological materials from different sources, and the exact composition of the ores may have a profound effect on the performance of the final product. It is thus obvious that rapid analysis of raw materials and the products, is vital for process control. Since particle-induced prompt photon spectrometry (PIPPS) is a rapid, non-destructive and experimentally simple technique for multi-element analysis, the application of this technique was evaluated with standard cement, using 4.75 MeV protons, 2.0 MeV deuterons and 5.0 MeV alpha-particles