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Radiation detectors based on microchannel plates for free-electron lasers

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Detectors based on microchannel plates are used to detect the radiation of free-electron lasers operating in short-wavelength ranges. We present descriptions of radiation detectors for the FLASH free-electron laser (DESY, Hamburg) that operates in vacuum ultraviolet and soft X-ray wavelength ranges (4–100 nm) and detectors for the European X-ray free electron laser that is being constructed in Hamburg and is designed to operate in the X-ray wavelength range from 0.05 to 4.3 nm.

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  1. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia

    E. Syresin, O. Brovko, A. Grebentsov, N. Zamjatin, A. Shabunov & M. Yurkov

  2. European XFEL GmbH, Hamburg, Germany

    J. Gruenert & W. Freund

  3. DESY, Hamburg, Germany

    M. Yurkov & D. Novikov

  4. Vakuum Praha, Prague, Czech Republic

    R. Basta, T. Fiala & P. Hedbavny

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Original Russian Text © E. Syresin, O. Brovko, A. Grebentsov, N. Zamjatin, A. Shabunov, M. Yurkov, J. Gruenert, W. Freund, D. Novikov, R. Basta, T. Fiala, P. Hedbavny, 2014, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Fizika Elementarnykh Chastits i Atomnogo Yadra, 2014.

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Syresin, E., Brovko, O., Grebentsov, A. et al. Radiation detectors based on microchannel plates for free-electron lasers. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 11, 730–736 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477114060144

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