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Transition Edge Sensors (TESs) are amongst the most sensitive cryogenic detectors and can be easily optimized for the detection of massive particles or photons ranging from X-rays all the way down to millimetre radiation. Furthermore, TESs…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-11-05 Mario De Lucia , Paolo Dal Bo , Eugenia Di Giorgi , Tommaso Lari , Claudio Puglia , Federico Paolucci

We study resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) peaks corresponding to low energy particle-hole excited states of metallic FeTe and semi-metallic TiSe$_2$ for photon incident energy tuned near the $L_{3}$ absorption edge of Fe and Ti…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-07-04 B. Barbiellini , J. N. Hancock , C. Monney , Y. Joly , G. Ghiringhelli , L. Braicovich , T. Schmitt

Large arrays of superconducting transition-edge sensor (TES) microcalorimeters are becoming the key technology for future space-based X-ray observatories and ground-based experiments in the fields of astrophysics, laboratory astrophysics,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Luciano Gottardi , Stephen Smith

The development of high-brightness free-electron lasers (FEL) has revolutionised our ability to create and study matter in the high-energy-density (HED) regime. Current diagnostic techniques have been very successful in yielding information…

Transition-edge sensors (TES) as microcalorimeters for high-energy-resolution X-ray spectroscopy are often fabricated with an absorber made of materials with high Z (for X-ray stopping power) and low heat capacity (for high resolving…

Resonant elastic x-ray scattering (REXS) is an exquisite element-sensitive tool for the study of subtle charge, orbital, and spin superlattice orders driven by the valence electrons, which therefore escape detection in conventional x-ray…

Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) is a powerful photon-in, photon-out spectroscopy technique for probing electronic, magnetic, and lattice excitations in matter. Time-resolved RIXS extends this capability through a stroboscopic…

Resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) at the $L$-edge of transition metal elements is now commonly used to probe single magnon excitations. Here we show that single magnon excitations can also be measured with RIXS at the $K$-edge of…

Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) is an extremely valuable tool for the study of elementary, including magnetic, excitations in matter. Latest developments of this technique mostly aimed at improving the energy resolution and…

Transition-edge sensors (TESs) have found a wide range of applications in both space- and land-based astronomical photon measurement and are being used in the search for dark matter and neutrino mass measurements. A fundamental aspect of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-05-29 K. M. Patel , D. J. Goldie , S. Withington , C. N. Thomas

The next generation of ultra-low-noise cryogenic detectors for space science applications require continued exploration of materials characteristics at low temperatures. The low noise and good energy sensitivity of current Transition Edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-01 D. J. Goldie , D. M. Glowacka , K. Rostem† , S. Withington

We demonstrate very high resolution photon spectroscopy with a microwave-multiplexed two-pixel transition-edge sensor (TES) array. We measured a $^{153}$Gd photon source and achieved an energy resolution of 63 eV full-width-at-half-maximum…

The measurement of shifts in the energy of X-ray emission lines is important for understanding the electronic structure and physical properties of materials. In this study, we demonstrate a method using a synchrotron source to introduce…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-02-19 Tejas Guruswamy , Orlando Quaranta , Lisa Gades , Umeshkumar Patel , Antonino Miceli

The superconducting Transition-Edge Sensor (TES) is a critical technology for next-generation X-ray spectrometers, known for its exceptional energy resolution. In the last decade, TESs based on AlMn alloy films have been extensively used in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-13 Liangpeng Xie , Yifei Zhang , Zhengwei Li , Zhouhui Liu , Shibo Shu , Junjie Zhou , Xufang Li , Haoyu Li , He Gao , Yudong Gu , Xuefeng Lu , Yong Zhao , Congzhan Liu

The state-of-the-art technology of X-ray microcalorimeters based on superconducting transition edge sensors (TESs), for applications in astrophysics and particle physics, is reviewed. We will show the advance in understanding the detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-14 Luciano Gottardi , Kenichiro Nagayoshi

In the past decade, Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) has made remarkable progress as a spectroscopic technique. This is a direct result of the availability of high-brilliance synchrotron X-ray radiation sources and of advanced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-03 Luuk J. P. Ament , Michel van Veenendaal , Thomas P. Devereaux , John P. Hill , Jeroen van den Brink

Transition edge sensors (TESs) are superconducting energy-resolving microcalorimeters that have demonstrated low background rates as well as quantum efficiencies close to unity for photons at optical and near-infrared wavelengths. This…

The resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) was measured in an insulating SrCuO$_{2}$ with changing the incident photon energy ($h\nu$) near the Cu $1s$ absorption edge (K-edge). Complex structures and their dependences on the momentum…

We describe an ab initio approach to simulate L-edge X-ray absorption (XAS) and 2p3d resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) spectroscopies. We model the strongly correlated electronic structure within a restricted active space and…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-06-01 Seunghoon Lee , Huanchen Zhai , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan

We present a study of resonant inelastic X-ray scattering (RIXS) spectra collected at the rare-earth $L$ edges of divalent hexaborides YbB$_6$ and EuB$_6$. In both systems, RIXS-active features are observed at two distinct resonances…