Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)
4. [processes and techniques by specific type]
5. analysis and testing techniques

Narrower term/s

• Rutherford backscattering spectroscopy
• nuclear reaction analysis
• ion beam induced luminescence

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to analysis of materials on a microscopic or macroscopic scale using a beam of positively charged light ions. Ion beam analysis (IBA) techniques are often used to study works of art, because of their noninvasive and nondestructive character. These techniques exploit the products of interactions between beams of accelerated charged particles and the target in order to determine its elemental composition.