Schematic of X-Calibur (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Schematic of X-Calibur

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This sketch of X-Calibur shows its main components. X-rays focused on a scintillator rod by an assembly of X-ray mirrors collide with electrons in the rod and are scattered into solid-state detectors (gray bars), developed at Washington University, that wrap round the rod. The scattering directions encode information about the polarization properties of the incident X-rays.

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