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Detector

The Eiger and a retractable fluorescence detector. Design-phase; values are reverse-engineered from dodal or inferred.

I03's detection is the standard MX shape: one large area detector on a translation, plus a retractable fluorescence detector for anomalous and element-identification work. They are modelled in the detection stage of the descriptor.

The detectors

Device Family Role Control handle Notes
Eiger Camera Detector BL03I-EA-EIGER-01: Dectris Eiger area detector, the MX science detector
DetectorMotion LinearStage Positioner BL03I-MO-DET-01: detector translation (z + upstream / downstream x, with a derived yaw); carries an integrated shutter
FluorescenceDetector (Sensor, deferred) Sensor BL03I-EA-FLU-01: a retractable fluorescence / XRF detector

How each maps onto CORA

  • The Eiger reuses Camera. A pixel-array area detector is the Camera Family presenting the Detector Role, the same shape the imaging pilots use; the photon-counting specifics (threshold energy) and the beam-center are calibration dodal does not carry (DET-1).
  • The detector motion is a Positioner. The translation stage reuses LinearStage; its integrated shutter is a Shutter affordance on the same mount. The axis ranges are calibration to confirm.
  • The fluorescence detector presents the Sensor Role. It reads a scalar / short-vector signal, not a 2D frame, so it is the Sensor Role, not Detector. Its modelling is deferred (DET-1); the catalog now carries an EnergyDispersiveSpectrometer Family (graduated by 2-ID + 7-BM) that is the likely binding once the detector is confirmed, but i03 keeps it family-less for now, the same deferred-Sensor posture I22 takes for its flux monitors. The retract mechanism is a binary Positioner state, not a separate Family.

Families

The Eiger reuses Camera; the detector motion reuses LinearStage. No new Family is earned on the detector side; the fluorescence detector and the sample backlight are carried loose (Sensor and the new Backlight family respectively), tracked by DET-1. See Inventory for the Asset tree and Open questions for the detector calibration still to confirm.