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The BepiColombo Mercury Imaging X-Ray Spectrometer: Science Goals, Instrument Performance and Operations
The Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer is a highly novel instrument that is designed to map Mercury’s elemental composition from orbit at two angular...
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The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (Swift) is a NASA medium explorer mission launched in 2004. Swift was designed with two primary scientific...
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A scanner for in situ X-ray radiography of large paintings: the case of “Paolo and Francesca” by G. Previati
A scanner for digital radiography of large paintings has been designed and developed, aimed to in situ performances. We report here the application...
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The design and sensitivity of JUNO’s scintillator radiopurity pre-detector OSIRIS
The OSIRIS detector is a subsystem of the liquid scintillator filling chain of the JUNO reactor neutrino experiment. Its purpose is to validate the...
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NICER: The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer
The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) is a NASA Explorer Mission of Opportunity that was launched in June 2017 to the International...
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Scanning Small-Angle X-ray Scattering and Coherent X-ray Imaging of Cells
In this chapter we review recent work towards high resolution imaging of unstained biological cells in the hydrated and living state, using...
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A compact and cost-effective hard X-ray free-electron laser driven by a high-brightness and low-energy electron beam
We present the first lasing results of SwissFEL, a hard X-ray free-electron laser (FEL) that recently came into operation at the Paul Scherrer...
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The MuCLS Beamline
After various developments on the inverse Compton X-ray source of the Munich Compact Light Source have been discussed in preceding chapters, here its...
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Evaluation of the Use of a Molybdenum Filter for Dose Reduction in Pediatric Digital X-ray Imaging
Pediatric dosimetry requires extra attention as young children are three times more sensitive to radiation than the average population. Soft tissues...
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Integration of a TES-based X-ray spectrometer in a kaonic atom experiment
We integrated a TES X-ray spectrometer with a charged kaon beam line at J-PARC to perform X-ray spectroscopy of kaonic helium atoms. Limited beam...
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Element-Specific Spin States in Heusler-Alloy Compounds Probed by X-Ray Magnetic Spectroscopy
Recent progress of x-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) studies for Heusler alloy compounds which are expected as high spin-polarized materials...
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Silicon Detectors for Gamma-Ray Astronomy
Silicon semiconductor detectors have heralded a worldwide revolution in gamma-ray astrophysics. Because of their ease of fabrication, abundance, and...
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Electron spectrometry with Silicon drift detectors: a GEANT4 based method for detector response reconstruction
Precision electron spectrometry in the keV range has always been considered a challenging task. The reconstruction of the original electron energy...
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A double-tapered fibre array for pixel-dense gamma-ray imaging
Luminescence intensity in photodetectors, radiation imagers and light-emitting diodes is proportional to the thickness of the light-emitting layer....
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The Einstein Probe Mission
The Einstein Probe (EP) is a mission designed to monitor the sky in the soft X-ray band. It will perform systematic surveys and characterization of...
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CubeSats for Gamma-Ray Astronomy
After many years of flying in space primarily for educational purposes, CubeSats – tiny satellites with form factors corresponding to arrangements of...
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Preparation, Crystallization, and Preliminary X-Ray Diffraction Study of Mutant Carboxypeptidase T Bearing the Primary Specificity Pocket and the Active-Site Loop of Carboxypeptidase B
AbstractCrystals of mutant carboxypeptidase T from Thermoactinomyces vulgaris (CPT11QG) with amino-acid substitutions G215S, Q249G, A251G, T257A,...
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Computerized Tomography
Computed tomography (CT) imaging is a non-invasive diagnostic technique and is widely used for severe diseases in the field of medical imaging. X-ray...
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NICER: The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer
The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) is a NASA Explorer Mission of Opportunity that was launched in June 2017 to the International...