Photoemission by Polarized X-Rays

Polarized X-rays from Magnetized Neutron Stars

We review the polarization properties of X-ray emission from highly magnetized neutron stars, focusing on emission from the stellar surfaces. We discuss how x-ray polarization can be used to constrain neutron star magnetic field and emission geometry, and to probe strong-field quantum electrodynamics and possibly constrain the properties of axions.

Elastic scattering of linearly polarized hard x - rays

Frontiers in imaging magnetism with polarized x-rays

*Correspondence: Peter Fischer, Center for X-ray Optics, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, MS 2-400, 1 Cyclotron Rd, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA e-mail: [email protected] Although magnetic imaging with polarized x-rays is a rather young scientific discipline, the various types of established x-ray microscopes have already taken an important role in state-of-the-art...

Spin-sensitive magnetic microscopy with circularly polarized X-rays

Generation and Proof of Elliptically Polarized X-Rays

Using an arrangement being analogous to optics of visible light the phase relation of the mutually perpendicularly polarized wave fields are examined in the Laue case of X-ray diffraction. Bragg reflections at an angle of reflection of about 45° are used as polarizer and analyzer. The different phase relations result from different thicknesses of a wedge-shaped silicon crystal, which is placed ...