Author: Carballedo, A.
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TUOBM06 MINERVA, a New X-ray Facility for the Characterization of the ATHENA Mirror Modules at the ALBA Synchrotron 28
 
  • A. Carballedo, J.J. Casas, C. Colldelram, A. Crisol, G. Cuní, D. Heinis, J. Nicolàs, A. Sánchez, N. Valls Vidal
    ALBA-CELLS, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain
  • N. Barrière, M.J. Collon, G. Vacanti
    Cosine Measurement Systems, Warmond, The Netherlands
  • M. Bavdaz, I. Ferreira
    ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
  • L. Cibic, M. Krumrey, D. Skroblin
    PTB, Berlin, Germany
 
  Funding: MINERVA is funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
In this paper we pre­sent the newly built beam­line MIN­ERVA, an X-ray fa­cil­ity at the ALBA syn­chro­tron. The beam­line has been de­signed to sup­port the de­vel­op­ment of the X ray ob­ser­va­tory ATHENA (Ad­vanced Tele­scope for High En­ergy As­tro­physics). MIN­ERVA will host the nec­es­sary metrol­ogy equip­ment to in­te­grate the stacks pro­duced by co­sine in a mir­ror mod­ule (MM) and char­ac­ter­ize their op­ti­cal per­for­mances. The op­ti­cal and me­chan­i­cal de­sign is based on the XPBF 2.0 from the Physikalisch-Tech­nis­che Bun­de­sanstalt (PTB), at BESSY II al­ready in use to this ef­fect and its con­struc­tion is meant to sig­nif­i­cantly aug­ment the ca­pa­bil­ity to pro­duce MM. The de­vel­op­ment of MIN­ERVA has ad­dressed the need for im­proved tech­ni­cal spec­i­fi­ca­tions, over­come ex­ist­ing lim­i­ta­tions and achieve en­hanced me­chan­i­cal per­for­mances. We de­scribe the de­sign, con­struc­tion process and im­ple­men­ta­tion of Min­erva that lasted three years. Even though the beam­line is still under a com­mis­sion­ing phase, we ex­pose tests and analy­sis that have been re­cently per­formed, re­mark­ing the im­prove­ments ac­com­plished and the chal­lenges to over­come, in order to reach the op­er­a­tional readi­ness for the mir­ror mod­ules mass pro­duc­tion.
 
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DOI • reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-MEDSI2023-TUOBM06  
About • Received ※ 24 October 2023 — Revised ※ 03 November 2023 — Accepted ※ 09 November 2023 — Issued ※ 09 February 2024
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