Energy-dispersive x-ray detectors for inter-disciplinary science including martian geochemical exploration

我们工作的基础在于物理学，在物理学中，我们研究涉及围绕原子运行的最内部电子的过程。一个这样的过程是这些电子被来自粒子加速器的质子等快速重弹抛出，另一个过程是在随后的激发原子弛豫过程中发射特征X射线。我们的实验是通过对这些X射线的能量分布进行高度精细的计算机分析来解释的。

The foundations of our work lie in physics, where we study processes involving the innermost electrons that orbit the atom. One such process is the ejection of these electrons by swift heavy projectiles such as protons from a particle accelerator, and another is the emission of characteristic X-rays during the subsequent relaxation of the excited atom. Our experiments are interpreted through highly refined computer analysis of the energy distributions of these X-rays.