A question because I'm not really super clear on how harmonics work:
(I'll get to the question in a moment...) I note that I0 starts to go non-linear around 12200-12400 eV and stays that way. So an increase (proportional?) in the amount of signal in It might be happening at around the same point.
Could Pd fluorescence into It be impacting the signal in It? I realize that the Pd emission lines are very low in energy but they are around 3k eV.
I'm not super familiar with alloy systems but I did have an issue once upon a time with back fluorescence into an ion chamber and things went a bit wonky. This wouldn't exactly be "back" fluorescence, but if the system is mostly Pd with a little bit of Au, I guess...? And it might be easy enough to test, just put a high-pass filter in front of It?
I got nothin' but it's kinda fun to take a shot. Cheers,
Mike
On Jun 16, 2023, at 03:26, Matt Newville <newvi...@cars.uchicago.edu> wrote:
Hi Anatoly,
I think Robert or Matthew made this point, but if set up for Pd, the mirror angle may have been chosen to reject ~70 keV, but possibly not 36 keV -- the harmonic at the Au edge. Do you know what the mirror angle was?
The Ar-filled I0 would be very efficient at absorbing 12 keV, and only pretty efficient at absorbing 36 keV. That would leave a more harmonic-rich beam exiting I0 and hitting the sample than entering I0. The good news is that the dense Pd/Au sample would be efficient at absorbing 36 keV too (but it was ~1 absorption length at 24 keV?) too.
Mono reflectivity of 36 keV vs 12 keV might also factor in. If you were not deliberately detuning but the crystals were slightly misaligned, the harmonic content may change significantly over the scan range. I would not guess that to dominate, but maybe it factors in.
Thank you, Matt. Ion chambers were filled with 90% Ar, and Pt coating was used, because we were measuring Pd K edge for the project, but we decided to look at the Au edge for testing purposes. I'm not sure why the intensity would go up unless the ion chamber was poorly set up. But, as others have pointed out, the mirror reflectivity for a Pt mirror should not change significantly over this energy range - the energy range is not that close to the Pt L3 or L2 edges. Depending on where it was located, fluorescence from the Pt mirror might pollute the signal in the I0 ion chamber, but that would also likely be a fairly constant background.
But, why would you fill the I0 ion chamber with Argon? A 10-cm ion chamber filled with Ar would absorb about 50% of the beam at 12 keV. Even at 24 keV, that would absorb 8% of the beam - not necessarily a problem but also probably generating at least a micro-Amp, so way more signal than you would need.
For mirror reflectivity curves, allow me to humbly remind everyone of
which is both interactive and works with X-ray energies above 30 keV.
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