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High Pressure Single Crystal Diffraction at PX^2
Published on: January 16, 2017
X-ray polarization splitting by a single crystal evaluated with synchrotron x-rays
N R Pereira1, R Presura2, M Wallace2
1Ecopulse, Inc., 7884 Vervain Ct, Springfield, Virginia 22152, USA.
Abstract:
In hexagonal crystals such as quartz, an asymmetric Bragg reflection from two equivalent internal crystal planes can separate unpolarized x-rays into two linearly polarized components. The perfectly polarized and tunable x-rays from a synchrotron are ideal to evaluate polarization spitting in detail. One unanticipated feature is that additional reflections from the crystal affect the diffraction intensity of the two polarized components, an effect that is unlikely to matter in polarization spectroscopy of radiating plasmas for which the crystal is intended.
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