HOTSAXS (High Overall Throughput Small Angle X-ray Scattering detector) is designed for small angle non-crystalline diffraction experiments on synchrotrons.
HOTSAXS/WAXS (for fast time resolved 1-d work) – To perform fast, combined, 1-D SAXS/WAXS well requires an excellently matched set of detectors. Until recently no such options were available. These are now available and offer high count rate capabilities >5MHz global, excellent dynamic range and very fast time framing <10µs. This is again far in excess of anything possible with the latest CCD technology.
HOTSAXS is based on microstrip gas counter technology and has been built by the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. This HOTSAXS detector will complement the Wide Angle X-ray Scattering detector HOTWAXS allowing combined dynamic, small and wideangle X-ray diffraction studies on one experimental station.
| Specification | |
|---|---|
| 506 channels | |
| 1 M events/sec/channel max. | |
| Full parallel readout (1 signal processing chain per channel) | |
| Photon counting readout (window discriminator) | |
| 32 bit multi channel scaler on every channel | |
| 1µS-10S integrating time frames | |
| 4keV – 12keV x-ray detection | |