{"id":47,"date":"2007-09-10T13:47:17","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T11:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lookingatnothing.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2014-01-12T12:31:42","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T03:31:42","slug":"pushbutton-machines-detector-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/archives\/47","title":{"rendered":"Pushbutton machines &#8211; Detector option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fancy new detector is being developed by the Swiss Light Source. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dectris.com\/pilatus_overview.html\">This Pilatus detector<\/a> would be of special interest in pushbutton machines, for its range in count rate would allow the use of this detector in a beamstop-less system.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a SAXS machine without a beamstop, and how convenient it would be, and it quickly becomes apparent that this would much simplify the operation and measurement requirements for samples. The advantages I can quickly think of are:<br \/>\n  &#8211; no more beamstop alignment, 1 less set of x,y motor stages<br \/>\n  &#8211; immediate determination of the beam center<br \/>\n  &#8211; two-step determination of the primary and secondary beam intensity, greatly simplifying the required procedure for determining the sample attenuation\/transmission factor, as well as the primary beam intensity in absolute units. <\/p>\n<p>If it works as advertised, this detector could thus greatly simplify the SAXS technique.<br \/>\nSoon I&#8217;ll post a simple drawing of an example pushbutton machine. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A fancy new detector is being developed by the Swiss Light Source. This Pilatus detector would be of special interest in pushbutton machines, for its <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/archives\/47\" title=\"Pushbutton machines &#8211; Detector option\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gZ2v-L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lookingatnothing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}