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Collaborations

Our crystals are tested on particle beams, at synchrotrons and free-electron lasers and in underground laboratories, together with the European Space Agency and partner institutes in astronomy and metrology.

Where we work.

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Particle beams
Synchrotrons and X-ray lasers
Institutes
Companies
Ferrara

Particle beams

CERN · Geneva

Beam tests at the SPS North Area and crystal collimation in the LHC: bent crystals, oriented calorimeters and positron-source prototypes.

DESY · Hamburg

Electron test beam of a few GeV, used to qualify bent crystals and calorimeter prototypes.

MAMI · Mainz

Sub-GeV electron and positron beams to study channeling and radiation of light particles in crystals.

Fermilab · Batavia

Crystal shadowing of the electrostatic septum for the slow extraction to the Mu2e experiment.

SLAC · Stanford

Multi-GeV electron beams to study quasi-channeling and strong-field radiation in oriented crystals (E336).

PSI · Villigen

Design and beam tests of the crystal-based positron source for the P3 experiment.

Synchrotrons and X-ray lasers

European XFEL · Hamburg

Silicon and diamond beam splitters for MHz X-ray multi-projection imaging.

ESRF · Grenoble

Synchrotron X-ray diffraction to measure the curvature and lattice quality of our crystals.

MAX IV · Lund

Ultrafast 3D X-ray imaging with crystal beam splitters.

Elettra · Trieste

Characterisation of X-ray optics for the CRYSTAL BOND project.

Diamond Light Source · Harwell

High-resolution synchrotron X-ray diffraction on beamline B16 to characterise crystals for crystal-based γ-ray light sources.

KIT · Karlsruhe

Silicon crystals diced along set lattice directions, to a hundredth of a degree, for X-ray optics at the KIT synchrotron.

Institutes

IJCLab · Orsay

Design of the crystal-based positron source for the FCC-ee.

ESA · Noordwijk

OTELLO, the ESA contract led by the University of Ferrara, develops the technologies for γ-ray Laue lenses.

INAF · Bologna · Milano

Laue lenses for γ-ray astronomy: OTELLO and NOW-CB.

INRiM · Torino

Metrology and finite-element modelling of bent crystals for OTELLO.

CNR-IMM · Bologna

Microstructures made in silicon crystals to raise the efficiency of channeling.

University of Padova · Padova

Periodically bent crystals for crystalline undulators, and a joint patent application on the method.

Companies

cosine · Sassenheim

Makers of silicon pore optics for ESA X-ray telescopes: we measure the miscut of their silicon wafers and, for the ESA project ASTROLAUE2, of oriented silicon coupons by high-resolution X-ray diffraction.

Sil’tronix · Archamps

Makers of custom silicon wafers: we measure their miscut to the microradian by X-ray diffraction with a laser autocollimator, their thickness by infrared interferometry and their surface by optical interferometry.

Integra TDS · Piešťany

Makers of silicon and germanium X-ray monochromators: we measure the thickness of their micrometre-thin silicon membranes by infrared interferometry.

Funding.

Funded by the
European Union European Research Council

European Research Council

DANAE · ERC CoG 101087663
SELDOM
CRYSBEAM

European Innovation Council

TECHNO-CLS · EIC Pathfinder 101046458
MHz-TOMOSCOPY · EIC Pathfinder 101046448

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

TRILLION · Global Fellowship 101032975
N-LIGHT · RISE 872196

Views and opinions expressed are those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the granting authority. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

National Institute
for Nuclear Physics

Mu2e
RD_FCC
RD_MUCOL

NUCLEUS
BULLKID-DM

CRYSTAL BOND
OREO
CORAL
GALORE
GEANT4INFN

European Space Agency

OTELLO

Ministry of University and Research

e+BOOST · PRIN 2022Y87K7X

INAF

NOW-CB