Implications of disturbed photon-counting statistics of Eiger detectors for X-ray speckle visibility experiments

This paper reports on coherent scattering experiments in the low-count regime with less than one photon per pixel per acquisition on average, conducted with two detectors based on the Eiger single-photon-counting chip. The obtained photon-count distributions show systematic deviations from the expec...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of synchrotron radiation. - 1994. - 26(2019), Pt 5 vom: 01. Sept., Seite 1705-1715
1. Verfasser: Möller, Johannes (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Reiser, Mario, Hallmann, Jörg, Boesenberg, Ulrike, Zozulya, Alexey, Rahmann, Hendrik, Becker, Anna Lena, Westermeier, Fabian, Zinn, Thomas, Zontone, Federico, Gutt, Christian, Madsen, Anders
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2019
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Journal of synchrotron radiation
Schlagworte:Journal Article X-ray coherence X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) X-ray speckle visibility spectroscopy (XSVS) dynamics photon-counting detectors photon-counting statistics speckle
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Zusammenfassung:This paper reports on coherent scattering experiments in the low-count regime with less than one photon per pixel per acquisition on average, conducted with two detectors based on the Eiger single-photon-counting chip. The obtained photon-count distributions show systematic deviations from the expected Poisson-gamma distribution, which result in a strong overestimation of the measured speckle contrast. It is shown that these deviations originate from an artificial increase of double-photon events, which is proportional to the detected intensity and inversely proportional to the exposure time. The observed miscounting effect may have important implications for new coherent scattering experiments emerging with the advent of high-brilliance X-ray sources. Different correction schemes are discussed in order to obtain the correct photon distributions from the data. A successful correction is demonstrated with the measurement of Brownian motion from colloidal particles using X-ray speckle visibility spectroscopy
Beschreibung:Date Completed 10.09.2019
Date Revised 10.09.2019
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1600-5775
DOI:10.1107/S1600577519006349