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Detector Characterization
Published in Alan Owens, Semiconductor Radiation Detectors, 2019
Synchrotron light sources are widely used in materials science, protein crystallography and biomicroscopy applications. They provide a unique stable source of high intensity photons, extending over a broad energy range from the far infrared to the γ-ray region. However, they have also proven invaluable for carrying out detailed metrology of radiation detectors by making available highly collimated, monochromatized beams of synchrotron radiation [46]. Light sources are only accessible at synchrotron research facilities and a number of specialized laboratories (for example the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt radiometry laboratories in Berlin, Germany [47]) have been established specifically to carry out photon metrology from the UV to the X-ray range using primary source standards in conjunction with primary detector standards.
Vibrational Spectroscopy
Published in Grinberg Nelu, Rodriguez Sonia, Ewing’s Analytical Instrumentation Handbook, Fourth Edition, 2019
Peter Fredericks, Llewellyn Rintoul, John Coates
Despite their high cost, many countries around the world now have a synchrotron facility and countries with a strong research culture, such as the United States, have several. The storage ring circumference, which correlates with the light intensity, varies widely from about 70 m for the smaller facilities, up to more than 1000 m for the largest. While there are now many synchrotron facilities around the world, some of the better known are: the Advanced Light Source at the Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory, Berkeley, California; the National Synchrotron Light Source at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Brookhaven, New York; the Advanced Photon Source at the Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois, Daresbury Synchrotron Radiation Source, Cheshire, United Kingdom; the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France; and the Photon Factory, Tsukuba, Japan.
An Invitation: Acceleration!
Published in Rob Appleby, Graeme Burt, James Clarke, Hywel Owen, The Science and Technology of Particle Accelerators, 2020
Rob Appleby, Graeme Burt, James Clarke, Hywel Owen
From an accelerator point of view the most important secondary particle phenomenon is that of photon production; it's a fundamental behaviour when charges accelerate in electromagnetic fields, and so we discuss it in detail in Chapter 6. We show the basic connection between the bremsstrahlung utilised in radiotherapy and the production of photons via synchrotron radiation. So-called synchrotron light sources are a widespread application of electron accelerators – there are nearly a hundred such facilities around the world now – and they make use of the enormous enhancement of photon production when electrons with a large kinetic energy travel through a specific magnetic field arrangement.
Distinctive applications of synchrotron radiation based X-ray Raman scattering spectroscopy: a minireview
Published in Instrumentation Science & Technology, 2021
The unique characteristics of third-generation synchrotron light sources such as tunable energy from ultraviolet to hard X-rays, high brilliance over a broad energy range, low emittance, pulsed time structure, controlled polarization and high beam stability in terms of intensity and position[1] have enabled the development of various advanced experimental techniques.[2–4] X-ray Raman scattering (XRS) is a synchrotron radiation based non-resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (NRIXS) technique. In inelastic X-ray scattering (IXS), incoming photon transfers a portion of its energy and momentum to the system of interest and induces several excitations such as Compton scattering, core-electron excitations or phonon excitations[5–7] as presented in Figure 1.