DOE Science Showcase - Bent Crystals

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Bent crystals are being successfully used today as crucial working components by DOE researchers and their international collaborators to analyze x-rays to determine the conditions of the x-rays’ emitters, and to manipulate beams of subatomic particles.Read more about research being done with bent crystals in DOE Databases and additional resources shown below.

Related Research Information in DOE Databases

In the OSTI Collections: Bent Crystals, Dr. William Watson

Search Results for “Bent Crystals”, E-Print Network

Channeling through Bent Crystals, SciTech Connect

Imaging with Spherically BentCrystalsor Reflectors, SciTech Connect

First Results on the SPS Beam Collimation with Bent Crystals, SciTech Connect

Application of channeling in bent crystals to charged particle beams, SciTech Connect

Measuring the X-ray Resolving Power of BentPotassium Acid Phthalate Diffraction Crystals, SciTech Connect

Performance of bent-crystal x-ray microscopes for high energy density physics research, DOE PAGES^Beta           

Elemental and Chemically Specific X-ray Fluorescence Imaging of Biological Systems, DOE PAGES^Beta   

High resolution x-ray and gamma ray imaging using diffraction lenses with mechanically bent crystals, DOepatents

Non-astigmatic imaging with matched pairs of spherically bent reflectors, DOepatents

Additional Resources 

Bendable Crystals Resolve Properties of X-ray Pulses, SLAC Today Archive

The Potential of Crystals and SLAC’s Facilities, Fermilab

 SLAC-led Research Team Bends Highly Energetic Electron Beam with Crystal, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

The UA9 experiment is investigating how crystals could help to steer particle beams in high-energy colliders, CERN

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