O. Diat et al., ULTRA-SMALL-ANGLE X-RAY-SCATTERING WITH A BONSE-HART CAMERA ON THE HIGH BRILLIANCE BEAMLINE AT THE ESRF, Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment, 356(2-3), 1995, pp. 566-572
We report on first experiments carried out on the high brilliance undu
lator beamline (BW) at the ESRF. A Bonse-Hart camera was installed in
order to examine the performance of the X-ray beam and its source for
this type of experiments. The results show that excellent data can be
obtained very fast. They belong to a scattering vector range which is
partially covered by visible light scattering experiments. The limitin
g problem is caused by diffuse scattering from the channel-cut crystal
s (up to 5 reflections) but according to our results it should be poss
ible to decrease this effect substantially by using a still higher num
ber of reflections while still maintaining unprecedentedly high count
rates and dynamic range due to the very bright source.