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    Usui, Koki; Kikuchi, Ryota; Nakatsu, Sota; Imayoshi, Takahiro; Kumagai, Kimiyo; Tago, Hiroshi; Satoh, Takahiro; Ishii, Yasuyuki; Kada, Wataru

    Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section B, Beam interactions with materials and atoms, November 2023, 2023-11-00, Letnik: 544
    Journal Article

    We investigated element composition ratios in two sets of sequentially collected airborne particulate matter (PM) samples obtained through the automatic sampler of the Atmospheric Environmental Regional Observation System (AEROS). A series of micro-PIXE analyses and imaging were performed on a PTFE (Polytetrafluoroethylene) membrane tape filter corresponding to two hourly time slots through a high-concentration air pollution event from 26th to 27th March 2020 sampled at Ota, Japan (36.290° N, 139.381° E) by utilizing an external 3 MeV proton microprobe. Latent variables of sequentially collected PM samples were analyzed by the non-linear least square method and classified by those clustering driven by house-made data analysis software. Micro-PIXE imaging effectively confirmed the presence of large elemental agglomerations on the PTFE membrane tape filter of AEROS that often appeared as outliners in data analysis.