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Lecture

Quantifying Synchrotron Radiation: Part 1

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This lecture covers the spectral flux, bandwidth, emittance, and brightness of synchrotron radiation. It delves into the history of brightness, explaining concepts such as flux, relative bandwidth, and emittance. The instructor discusses the evolution of brightness since Röntgen, highlighting key advancements in the field.

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An X-ray tube is a vacuum tube that converts electrical input power into X-rays. The availability of this controllable source of X-rays created the field of radiography, the imaging of partly opaque objects with penetrating radiation. In contrast to other sources of ionizing radiation, X-rays are only produced as long as the X-ray tube is energized. X-ray tubes are also used in CT scanners, airport luggage scanners, X-ray crystallography, material and structure analysis, and for industrial inspection.

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A Crookes tube (also Crookes–Hittorf tube) is an early experimental electrical discharge tube, with partial vacuum, invented by English physicist William Crookes and others around 1869-1875, in which cathode rays, streams of electrons, were discovered. Developed from the earlier Geissler tube, the Crookes tube consists of a partially evacuated glass bulb of various shapes, with two metal electrodes, the cathode and the anode, one at either end.

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