primary beam
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Directed
flux of beam particles
or photons incident on a sample.
Source:
PAC, 2020,
92
, 1781. 'Glossary of methods and terms used in surface chemical analysis (IUPAC Recommendations 2020)' on page 1810 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2019-0404)