Richard Gillilan wrote:
> I like Jim Plufgrath's way of looking at the problem: reflections and
> background scatter have different effective source sizes and
> distances. For a reflection, the source is the same as the beamline
> source (some place way upstream). For solvent the source is the sample
> itself, for air, the source is spread out over a range of distances
> ... thus background is very divergent.
I like Jim's way of looking at the problem too. Especially the part
about beer.
-James Holton
MAD Scientist
Jim Plufgrath wrote:
> So when your synchtrotron buddies talk about all this, be sure to buy them
> beers to help with their thinking. :)
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