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Detector

The detectors that make SST multi-technique. PVs verified against the RSoXS, HAXPES, and NEXAFS TOML device manifests.

SST's three technique families show up in its detectors: which one is read decides whether the measurement is soft-X-ray scattering, photoemission, or energy-resolved absorption.

Asset Family PV Technique it serves
ScatteringDetector Camera XF:07ID1-ES:1{GE:2} RSoXS soft-X-ray scattering
ElectronAnalyzer ElectronAnalyzer XF:07ID-ES-SES HAXPES photoemission
CalorimeterSpectrometer EnergyDispersiveSpectrometer XF:07ID-ES{UCAL}: NEXAFS energy-resolved fluorescence
FluxMonitor FluxMonitor XF:07ID-ES1{DMR:I400-1} I0 / drain-current normalization
BeamStop BeamStop XF:07ID2-ES1{BS-Ax:1} blocks the RSoXS direct beam
SampleCamera Camera XF:07ID1-ES:1{Scr:4} on-axis sample viewing

Three detectors, three techniques

The ScatteringDetector is a Greateyes 4k x 4k CCD reading the soft-X-ray scattering pattern (a second SAXS-arm Greateyes is commented out in source, DET-1); it reuses Camera. The CalorimeterSpectrometer is a transition-edge-sensor (TES) microcalorimeter reading energy-resolved fluorescence for NEXAFS; it resolves photon energy per event to give a spectrum, so it reuses EnergyDispersiveSpectrometer (whether a cryogenic microcalorimeter is a per-Asset settings variant of that family, alongside the silicon-drift and germanium variants, or warrants its own Family is a question; carried as reuse for now). Absorption is also read as drain current and partial electron yield through the SR570 / ADC flux channels.

The electron analyzer: a graduation

The ElectronAnalyzer is the HAXPES Scienta SES hemispherical electron analyzer (pass energy, lens mode, kinetic / excitation energy, acquisition mode). It is a photon-in / electron-out device that fits no photon-detector family, so it binds the ElectronAnalyzer family that NSLS-II ESM introduced. SST-HAXPES is the second sighting of that family, the same Scienta SES analyzer type as ESM, so it earned the rule-of-three; the abstraction is settled (a hemispherical electron analyzer is a distinct, recurring device class), so it GRADUATED into the catalog (ARPES-1), ESM's references swept alongside. The flux channels reuse FluxMonitor (graduated in #353); the beamstop reuses BeamStop.