High-energy-resolution X-ray monochromator calibration using the detailed-balance principle
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- Zhao, J. Y.
- Sturhahn, W.
Abstract
A new method is presented to calibrate an X-ray energy scale with sub-meV relative accuracy by using the detailed-balance principle of the phonon creation and annihilation. This method is conveniently used to define or verify the energy scale of high-energy-resolution monochromators that are used in inelastic X-ray scattering and nuclear resonant inelastic X-ray scattering instruments at synchrotron radiation facilities. This method does not rely on sample properties and its precision only depends on the statistical data quality. Well calibrated instruments are essential for reliable comparison of data sets obtained at different synchrotron radiation beamlines, of data with theoretical predictions, and of data from other techniques such as neutron or light scattering. The principle of the detailed-balance method is described in this paper and demonstrated experimentally.
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© 2012 International Union of Crystallography. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original authors and source are cited. Received 18 November 2011; Accepted 16 May 2012. We thank Drs E. E. Alp, A. Alatas of APS, T. Sage, Y. Q. Zeng of Northeasten University, H. X. Wang of University of California at Davis, and Y. M. Xiao of HPCAT, APS, for fruitful discussions. This work was supported by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357.Attached Files
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- DE-AC02-06CH11357
- Department of Energy (DOE)
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