NO DETERIORATION ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS WITH IN-AIR SUBMILLI-PIXE CAMERA

Abstract

Elemental images of rice leaves with lesion parts were taken with an in-air submilli-PIXE camera at Tohoku University. The rice leaves were analyzed in vivo and it resulted that the elements of Ca and Mn are accumulated in the lesion parts. It was confirmed by checking the intactness of cells that the living leaves were not seriously damaged. The surface of japan bowls (the Edo period), Japanese vessels (Shigaraki wares, the Edo period) and wooden tablets (the Meiji period) were directly surveyed by submilli-beams (3 MeV protons). Japanese vessels and wooden tablets were not discolored by the beam irradiation. Shigaraki vessels were discolored first, but their color disappeared after 10 days from the irradiation. It is concluded that such samples are not seriously deteriorated in in-air PIXE analysis.