L. Abalo

Science-driven design and performance evaluation of a Silicon Laue Component lens for hard X-ray polarimetry

Focusing hard X-rays above 80 keV is challenging for grazing-incidence optics. Laue lenses offer an alternative based on crystal diffraction. We assess a lens based on Silicon Laue Components (SiLCs), consisting of stacked silicon plates, for polarimetry of accreting stellar-mass black holes and strongly magnetized neu...