Group Prof. Hofsäss, II. Institute of Physics

Advanced Lab Course experiments offered by our group

• Positron annihilation spectroscopy, positron life time measurements



Detector setup for positron lifetime measurements and angular correlation of annihilation photons



• Mössbauer Spectroscopy




• Nuclear Reaction Analysis (NRA) ¹¹B(¹H,2α)⁴He reaction

Energy scheme for the nuclear reaction of protons with ¹¹B


• Surface analysis by Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES)


• Interaction of α-radiation with matter


• Elemental analysis using Proton Induced X-ray Emission (PIXE)

PIXE analysis of the blue color and the glaze of a desert plate


• Elemental analysis using Rutherford Backscattering Spectroscopy (RBS)
• Magnetron sputter deposition of thin films
  
• Low-Level gamma spectroscopy of environmental samples