[Ifeffit] [Ext] Brain teaser

[matthew marcus]

The mirror was set up for a run at the Pd K-edge, according to the 
problem statement.  Therefore, its nominal angle must be such as to put 
the critical energy >25keV.  An angle of 3mrad would do it. At that 
angle, the reflectivity (assuming  no roughness) goes up with energy in 
the relevant range, but only by a few percent.

We're not told what the ratio of gains of the current amps is, or 
whether the ion chambers have the same path length, so we can't tell 
whether the signals are comparable, as shown on the graph, or orders of 
magnitude different.
	mam

On 6/14/2023 10:17 PM, Jeffrey Terry wrote:
> Well, I’ll take a shot. Looks like the mirror angle is totally fubared, 
> you are getting Bragg peaks from the coating or substrate that are 
> giving you the peaks in Io. Since you have no idea what angle those are 
> going through Io, they are unlikely to make it into either the sample or 
> It. Since those photons are removed from the beam hitting the sample, 
> they would show up as intensity dips in It. I’d bet that most (all?) of 
> the reflected beam is not going into the sample. I’m kind of surprised 
> It signal is as clean as it is, but then I don’t know the gains on 
> either measurement amplifiers. I couldn’t find a flat mirror angle that 
> would cause the cutoff at 12870? eV but since it is a collimating mirror 
> who knows what range of angles were actually being hit.
> 
> Jeff Terry
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>> On Jun 14, 2023, at 7:27 PM, Anatoly Frenkel 
>> <anatoly.frenkel at stonybrook.edu 
>> <mailto:anatoly.frenkel at stonybrook.edu>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello, all. It is a low- to medium- level brain teaser.
>>
>> Pt-coated collimating mirror was in place for Pd K-edge measurement, 
>> but Au L3-edge of Pd-Au alloy was measured (for testing purposes). I0 
>> and It detectors were both Ar filled ionization chambers. Because of 
>> the energy dependence of reflectivity of the Pt mirror, I0 intensity 
>> was strongly nonlinear (blue curve). However, the transmission 
>> intensity in the It detector was almost linear (red curve). Why?
>>
>> Anatoly
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