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SPring-8 Users Community (SPRUC)
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Research Group: Cultural Heritage Research Group
Research Area: Applied MaterialsBeamline: BL01B1, BL08W, BL20XU,BL20B2, BL28B2, BL37XU, BL43IR, BL47XUOverview of Research Group, Goals and Purposes: Synchrotron radiation was applied to cultural heritage objects in 1987 at the Photon Factory in Japan before the rest of the world. Today, the advanced third-generation synchrotron radiation at SPring-8 is applicable to wide range of studies in the field of cultural heritage, archaeology and arts. Our successful applications include the study on ceramics, glass artifacts, wooden statues metal artifacts, silk fibers, Japanese lacquer, art of painting, and so on. Utilization of advanced properties of SR X-rays from SPring-8 allow high energy XRF with 116-keV X-rays, X-ray microbeam (1 µmφ) analysis, and CT with highly collimated parallel 200-keV beams for advanced nondestructive high-sensitive three dimensional X-ray analyses of cultural heritage. Our "Cultural Property Research Group" aims to promote a fruitful application of synchrotron radiation at SPring-8 to cultural heritage science and produce advanced and international research achievements. We also aim to make proposals concering our expected light source, beamline, and techniques to contribute to the SPring-8 upgrade plan. The details are as follows.
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