Multilayer optic based components for synchrotron sources

Synchrotron IRadiation Sources

Synchrotron Light Sources

YNCHROTRON RADIATION sources have proven to be immensely important tools throughout the sciences and engineering. In consequence, synchrotron radiation usage continues to grow, assuring the need for additional synchrotron radiation machines well into the foreseeable future. Storage rings, the basis for all major existing hard X-ray synchrotron facilities, have inherent limitations that constrai...

Synchrotron-driven Spallation Sources

The use of synchrotrons for pulsed neutron spallation sources is an example of spin-off from the accelerator development prompted by particle physics. The first proposal for an accelerator-driven source with a thermalised neutron facility was in the 1960s (Intense Neutron Generator, ING) [1], but this project was never built. There was earlier work on 'electrical' breeders [2] and the direct bo...

Empirical dead-time corrections for synchrotron sources.

An experimental comparison of models for performing dead-time corrections of photon-counting detectors at synchrotron sources is presented. The performance of several detectors in the three operating modes of the Advanced Photon Source is systematically compared, with particular emphasis on asymmetric fill patterns. Several simple and well known correction formulas are evaluated. The results de...

Synchrotron Radiation Sources for the Future

1. Introduction Synchrotron sources have proven to be immensely important research tools throughout the biological, physical and engineering sciences. This is illustrated by the fact that most issues of Science or Nature are likely to contain articles which depended on synchrotron radiation (SR). Worldwide , about 70 SR sources are in various stages of operation, construction, or planning, repr...