In order to improve our transverse diagnostic tools, two new pinhole beamlines will be designed. The pinhole arrays will be in air for easier maintenance: this will result in a significant loss of X-Ray photons when passing through the vacuum window. To overcome this issue, the option to directly illuminate a CCD/CMOS camera with X-Ray radiation without prior conversion into visible light is under study. Tests in the existing beamline both with a conventional CMOS camera and with a dedicated X-Ray camera are foreseen. This report describes our findings regarding the current status regarding the use of X-Ray cameras as a "high flux" diagnostic tool, as well as our preliminary experimental results.
Marongiu et al. (Tue,) studied this question.