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We present the expected X-ray polarization signal resulting from distant reprocessing material around black holes. Using a central isotropic power-law emission at the center of the simulated model, we add distant equatorial and axially…

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X-ray polarimetric observations from the Imaging X-ray Polarimeter Explorer (IXPE) is an excellent tool for probing the geometry and dynamics of X-ray emitting corona in active galactic nuclei (AGN). This work aims to investigate the…

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In the past decade, several neutron reflectometry methods for determining the modulus and phase of the complex reflection coefficient of an unknown multilayer thin film have been worked out among which the method of variation of…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-09-06 Seyed Farhad Masoudi , Saeed S. Jahromi

X-ray polarization is a powerful tool for unveiling the anisotropic characteristics of high-energy celestial objects. We present a novel imaging reconstruction method designed for hard X-ray polarimeters employing a Si CMOS sensor and coded…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-09 Tsubasa Tamba , Hirokazu Odaka , Taihei Watanabe , Toshiya Iwata , Tomoaki Kasuga , Atsushi Tanimoto , Satoshi Takashima , Masahiro Ichihashi , Hiromasa Suzuki , Aya Bamba

With the advancement of non-classical light sources such as single-photon and entangled-photon sources, innovative microscopy based on the quantum principles has been proposed over traditional microscopy. This paper introduces the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Mousume Samad , Maki Shimizu , Yasuto Hijikata

Polarimetry is widely considered a powerful observational technique in X-ray astronomy, useful to enhance our understanding of the emission mechanisms, geometry and magnetic field arrangement of many compact objects. However, the lack of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-28 Ronaldo Bellazzini , Fabio Muleri

The theoretical possibility to use an electron microscope as a spin polarizer is studied. It turns out that a Bessel beam passing a standard magnetic objective lens is intrinsically spin polarized. In the limit of infinitely small detectors…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Peter Schattschneider , Vincenzo Grillo

Linear polarization analysis of hard x-rays is employed to probe electronic anisotropies in metal-containing complexes with very high selectivity. We use the pronounced linear dichroism of nuclear resonant x-ray scattering to determine…

Measuring a weak gravitational lensing signal to the level required by the next generation of space-based surveys demands exquisite reconstruction of the point-spread function (PSF). However, unresolved binary stars can significantly…

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We introduce a novel methodology for addressing systematic uncertainties in unbinned inclusive cross-section measurements and related collider-based inference problems. Our approach incorporates known analytic dependencies on parameters of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-21 Lisa Benato , Cristina Giordano , Claudius Krause , Ang Li , Robert Schöfbeck , Dennis Schwarz , Maryam Shooshtari , Daohan Wang

The measurement of the linear polarization is one of the hot topics of High Energy Astrophysics. Gas detectors based on photoelectric effect have paved the way for the design of sensitive instruments and mission proposals based on them have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Fabio Muleri

Single molecule imaging is one of the main target areas of X-ray free electron lasers. It relies on the possibility of orienting the large number of low counting statistics 2D diffraction patterns taken at random orientations of identical…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2012-11-30 Zoltan Jurek , Gyula Faigel

We consider birefringent (i.e., polarization changing) scattering of x-ray photons at the superposition of two optical laser beams of ultra-high intensity and study the resonant contributions of axions or axion-like particles, which could…

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This study addresses the critical need for high signal-to-noise ratio in optical detection methods for biological sample discrimination under low-photon-flux conditions to ensure accuracy without compromising sample integrity. We explore…

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Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering (RIXS) in the soft x-ray range is an element-specific energy-loss spectroscopy used to probe the electronic and magnetic excitations in strongly correlated solids. In the recent years, RIXS has been…

Entangled-photon coincidence imaging is a method to nonlocally image an object by transmitting a pair of entangled photons through the object and a reference optical system, respectively. The image of the object can be extracted from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Jing Cheng , Shensheng Han

X-ray polarimetry promises to give qualitatively new information about high-energy astrophysical sources, such as binary black hole systems, micro-quasars, active galactic nuclei, neutron stars, and gamma-ray bursts. We designed, built and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-22 Matthias Beilicke , F. Kislat , A. Zajczyk , Q. Guo , R. Endsley , M. Stork , R. Cowsik , P. Dowkontt , S. Barthelmy , T. Hams , T. Okajima , M. Sasaki , B. Zeiger , G. De Geronimo , M. G. Baring , H. Krawczynski

Polarimetric measurements, especially if extended at high energy, are expected to provide important insights into the mechanisms underlying the acceleration of relativistic particles in jets. In a previous work we have shown that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 F. Tavecchio , M. Landoni , L. Sironi , P. Coppi

A method is suggested to produce, with the help of colliding laser photons with bunches of relativistic ions having two energy levels, both intense beams of monochromatic polarized X-ray fluorescence photons and significant number of X-ray…

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