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@inproceedings{burholt:ibic2023-wep020, author = {S.B. Burholt and L. Bobb and N. Vitoratou}, title = {{Performance Evaluation of GAGG+ and Tungsten Carbide Blades in an X-ray Pinhole Camera}}, % booktitle = {Proc. IBIC'23}, booktitle = {Proc. 12th Int. Beam Instrum. Conf. (IBIC'23)}, eventdate = {2023-09-10/2023-09-14}, pages = {382--386}, paper = {WEP020}, language = {english}, keywords = {photon, synchrotron, diagnostics, synchrotron-radiation, radiation}, venue = {Saskatoon, Canada}, series = {International Beam Instrumentation Conference}, number = {12}, publisher = {JACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland}, month = {12}, year = {2023}, issn = {2673-5350}, isbn = {978-3-95450-236-3}, doi = {10.18429/JACoW-IBIC2023-WEP020}, url = {https://jacow.org/ibic2023/papers/wep020.pdf}, abstract = {{At Diamond Light Source two X-ray pinhole cameras are used to measure the transverse profile of the 3 GeV electron beam. The current pinhole assembly is formed using tungsten blades with chemically etched shims to produce a 25 µm x 25 µm aperture and the imager incorporates a 0.2 mm LuAG:Ce scintillator. Tungsten carbide is a machinable high-Z material which at millimetre thicknesses is opaque to X-rays. With a slight change in pinhole design, similar to that already in place at the ESRF, tungsten carbide blades could offer a well-controlled aperture size for the pinhole camera with simpler assembly. Further to this, improvements to the photon yield of scintillators mean that the new scintillator GAGG+ has an almost two fold increase in yield compared to the current LuAG: Ce scintillator. An evaluation of the tungsten carbide blades and GAGG+ scintillator is presented.}}, }