Using Synchrotron Radiation for Characterization of Cultural Heritage Materials

Janssens, Koen; Cotte, Marine

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-23201-6_78

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“…Synchrotron radiation facilities are increasingly used to study ancient materials from cultural heritage [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]. Assets of synchrotron radiation (SR)-based techniques are many, in particular including the following: (i) the beam brightness, which offers small probes (down to tens of nanometers) combined with high beam intensity (>10 12 photons per seconds) and consequently high acquisition speed and high data quality; (ii) the energy tunability, a key property for absorption spectroscopy techniques, from X-ray to UV-vis and infrared range.…”

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The “Historical Materials BAG”: A New Facilitated Access to Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Analyses for Cultural Heritage Materials at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

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The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) has recently commissioned the new Extremely Brilliant Source (EBS). The gain in brightness as well as the continuous development of beamline instruments boosts the beamline performances, in particular in terms of accelerated data acquisition. This has motivated the development of new access modes as an alternative to standard proposals for access to beamtime, in particular via the “block allocation group” (BAG) mode. Here, we present the recently implemented “historical materials BAG”: a community proposal giving to 10 European institutes the opportunity for guaranteed beamtime at two X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) beamlines—ID13, for 2D high lateral resolution XRPD mapping, and ID22 for high angular resolution XRPD bulk analyses—with a particular focus on applications to cultural heritage. The capabilities offered by these instruments, the specific hardware and software developments to facilitate and speed-up data acquisition and data processing are detailed, and the first results from this new access are illustrated with recent applications to pigments, paintings, ceramics and wood.

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“…X-ray spectroscopy methods at synchrotron radiation facilities are increasingly being used to analyze cultural heritage materials such as pigments and decorated artefacts. These materials are often characterized by complex stratigraphy and/or heterogeneous material compositions [5][6][7][8][9]; the possibility of using a combination of techniques to study different aspects, namely, characterization, degradation, and material changes, is highly recommended.…”

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X-ray Synchrotron Radiation to Look at Pigments in Antiquities: Overview and Examples

Gianoncelli,

Schöder,

Plaisier

et al. 2024

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The recent upgrading of synchrotron radiation (SR) sources has favored, in the last few years, the construction and design of beamlines optimized for the study of cultural heritage materials, which may require ad hoc setups, specific spatial resolutions, and detection limits. In the field of cultural heritage, integrated approaches combining different techniques are often required, even at large facilities, where some beamlines offer the possibility of performing different types of measurements at the same point of analysis, complementing preliminary information usually obtained by conventional laboratory and/or portable in situ methods. An overview of the last ten years of synchrotron applications for the study of pigments is given, with discussion of upstream and downstream challenges to methods and techniques. The possibilities offered by the synchrotron techniques are illustrated by a case study of a particular class of painted ceramics, as an example of different research questions that are solved by a combination of SR-based methods.

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“…The experience that PBPL has in experiments generating X-rays through inverse Compton scattering makes this a natural endeavor for the MITHRA facility [16,17]. While ICS-generated X-rays have many applications, including medicine and the study of radioisotopes, the photon energies obtainable in this beginning stage of first experiments are more suited towards other applications, including those involving cultural heritage research using X-ray absorption spectroscopy, specifically for elements with K-and L-edge absorption peaks at less than 20 keV [18]. Example parameters for the X-ray source are given in Table 3 and spectra can be seen in Figure 10.…”

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Overview and Commissioning Status of the UCLA MITHRA Facility

Williams,

Fukasawa,

Sakai

et al. 2023

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Presented here are the first results of commissioning of the S-Band hybrid photoinjector and laser systems at the new accelerator and light source facility, MITHRA, at UCLA. The radiation bunker and capabilities of the facility are described with motivation for detailed measurement of beam parameters explained. Following thorough characterization of the photoinjector, a 1.5 m linac is to be installed and experiments up to 30 MeV will begin. These will include experiments in basic plasma physics, space plasma, terahertz production in dielectric structures, and inverse Compton scattering and applications for the X-rays produced.

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Using Synchrotron Radiation for Characterization of Cultural Heritage Materials

Cited by 8 publications

References 138 publications

The “Historical Materials BAG”: A New Facilitated Access to Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Analyses for Cultural Heritage Materials at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

The “Historical Materials BAG”: A New Facilitated Access to Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Analyses for Cultural Heritage Materials at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

X-ray Synchrotron Radiation to Look at Pigments in Antiquities: Overview and Examples

Overview and Commissioning Status of the UCLA MITHRA Facility

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