About the project

The experiments with the MÖNCH detector [1][2][3] were perforemed as part of the my Bachelor thesis [4] at the TU Berlin, at the Max-Born-Institute in Berlin, Germany.

Afterwards, multiple experiements were conducted between 2023 and 2025 and resulted of two publications: [5][6].

Due to the demand of intensive work with the detector, this software was developed to simplify the work with detector and accelerate data acquisition and processing.

[1]

A. Bergamaschi, M. Andrä, R. Barten, C. Borca, M. Brückner, S. Chiriotti, R. Dinapoli, E. Fröjdh, D. Greiffenberg, T. Huthwelker, A. Kleibert, M. Langer, M. Lebugle, C. Lopez-Cuenca, D. Mezza, A. Mozzanica, J. Raabe, S. Redford, C. Ruder, V. Scagnoli, B. Schmitt, X. Shi, U. Staub, D. Thattil, G. Tinti, C. F. Vaz, S. Vetter, J. Vila-Comamala, and J. Zhang. The MÖNCH Detector for Soft X-ray, High-Resolution, and Energy Resolved Applications. Synchrotron Radiation News, 31(6):11–15, November 2018. doi:10.1080/08940886.2018.1528428.

[2]

S. Cartier, A. Bergamaschi, R. Dinapoli, D. Greiffenberg, I. Johnson, J. H. Jungmann, D. Mezza, A. Mozzanica, B. Schmitt, X. Shi, M. Stampanoni, J. Sun, and G. Tinti. Micron resolution of MÖNCH and GOTTHARD, small pitch charge integrating detectors with single photon sensitivity. Journal of Instrumentation, 9(05):C05027–C05027, May 2014. doi:10.1088/1748-0221/9/05/C05027.

[3]

S. Cartier, M. Kagias, A. Bergamaschi, Z. Wang, R. Dinapoli, A. Mozzanica, M. Ramilli, B. Schmitt, M. Brückner, E. Fröjdh, D. Greiffenberg, D. Mayilyan, D. Mezza, S. Redford, C. Ruder, L. Schädler, X. Shi, D. Thattil, G. Tinti, J. Zhang, and M. Stampanoni. Micrometer-resolution imaging using MÖNCH: towards G2-less grating interferometry. Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, 23(6):1462–1473, November 2016. doi:10.1107/S1600577516014788.

[4]

Leonid Lunin. Pulsgetriggerte Detektion resonanter magnetischer Kleinwinkelstreuung an einer Laser-getriebenen Röntgenquelle. Bachelor’s Thesis, TU Berlin, Berlin, July 2022. URL: https://github.com/lrlunin/bachelorarbeit_lunin_tu_berlin.

[5]

Niklas Schneider. … Master’s Thesis, TU Berlin, Berlin, July 2024.

[6]

Leonid Lunin, Martin Borchert, Niklas Schneider, Konstanze Korell, Michael Schneider, Dieter Engel, Stefan Eisebitt, Bastian Pfau, and Daniel Schick. Laser-driven resonant soft-X-ray scattering for probing picosecond dynamics of nanometre-scale order. January 2025. arXiv:2501.11506, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2501.11506.