Introduction
Physics Today paper
The basics
Figure 2
An X-ray Calorimeter basically consists of a thermal mass to absorb incident x-ray photons, a thermometer to measure the resulting temperature rise, and a weak link to a low-temperature heat sink that provides the thermal isolation needed to sense a temperature change.
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