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Data Acquisition and Analysis for a TES-Based X-Ray Spectrometer

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X-ray spectrometers based on superconducting transition edge sensors (TESs) are promising in the spectroscopy research. For several X-ray light source facilities in Shanghai, deployment of TES-based spectrometers is proposed. This paper introduces the work on data processing for a TES-based X-ray spectrometer prototype developed at ShanghaiTech University. A data acquisition software is designed and programmed for multi-pixel data recording. The signal analysis method is optimized to best realize the performance of the prototype. We have achieved 12-channel simultaneous data acquisition and better than 9 eV resolution in the range from 2 to 9 keV for 11 TES pixels.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 12005134), National Key Scientific Instrument and Equipment Development Project of China (No. 11927805).

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  1. Center for Transformative Science, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, 201210, China

    Jingkai Xia, Shuo Zhang, Jinping Yang, Yanru Song & Zhi Liu

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Xia, J., Zhang, S., Yang, J. et al. Data Acquisition and Analysis for a TES-Based X-Ray Spectrometer. J Low Temp Phys 209, 1017–1023 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-022-02744-6

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