{"term":{"id":"08748","title":"particle-induced gamma-ray-emission analysis","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - particle-induced gamma-ray-emission analysis","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.08748","code":"08748","status":"current","acronym":"<em>acronym<\/em>: PIGE","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Measurement principle in which the energies and intensities of characteristic prompt gamma-radiation emitted during nuclear reactions with charged particles other than electrons is used to measure the amounts of elements in a material.","notes":{"1":"The particle that induces gamma-rays may be explicitly mentioned, e.g. 'proton-induced gamma-ray-emission analysis'."},"links":[{"term":"prompt gamma-radiation","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/08753"}],"sources":["PAC, 2021, 93, 69. 'Vocabulary of radioanalytical methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2020)' on page 91 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2019-0302)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/08748\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/08748\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/08748\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'particle-induced gamma-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.08748","license":"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.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"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.","accessed":"2026-04-19T04:08:03+00:00"}}