08737 IUPAC Gold Book - muon induced X-ray emission analysis 10.1351/goldbook.08737 08737 current 1 Measurement method of X-ray analysis in which characteristic X-radiation emitted upon irradiation of a material with a beam of muons of certain energy is used to measure the chemical composition and chemical state of an element. X-ray analysis https://goldbook.iupac.org//terms/view/08769 PAC, 2021, 93, 69. 'Vocabulary of radioanalytical methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2020)' on page 88 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0302) https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08737/html https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08737/json https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/08737/plain Citation: 'muon induced X-ray emission analysis' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.08737 The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) for individual terms. If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org . The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using. 2026-05-18T03:51:11+00:00