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Development of a multi-technique setup based on a liquid anode X-ray source for the characterization of materials.
Picollo F., Re A., Marabotto M., Vigorelli L., Alessio A., Guidorzi L., Donazzolo C., Lo Giudice A., Truccato M.
In the last decades, a novel technology for X-ray sources based on the use of a liquid anode has been developed, in order to increase the maximum achievable brilliance by at least one order of magnitude compared to conventional microfocus sources. With this innovative equipment, a High-Brilliance X-ray laboratory (HiBriX Lab) is under development at the University of Turin, hosted at the NIS Inter-departmental Centre. It was designed by integrating different detectors and focusing optics to represent a unique laboratory in Italy and with a handful of comparable examples in the world. The aim is to cover several applications such as: material characterization via $\mu XRD$ and $\mu XRF$ maps; investigation of detector performances (charge collection efficiency and damage effects); single cell level radiobiology; X-ray imaging (radiography and tomography) of objects having a wide size range. This work is funded by: RESOLVE project (INFN), PLaMeRaX and BiophysiX projects (CRT Foundation), SAX project (Regione Piemonte), "Departments of Excellence" (L. 232/2016) project (Italian MIUR), SAXSAB and HiBriX Lab (University of Torino and Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation).