Hard x-ray magnetic circular dichroism under high magnetic field

Abstract

We describe high-field X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) setup developed at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility beamline ID12, which is dedicated to polarization dependent X-ray absorption spectroscopy in the soft and hard X-ray range from 2 to 15 keV. The static magnetic field up to 17 T is generated by a superconducting solenoid. Performance of the setup is illustrated with three representative studies: metamagnetic transitions in PrCo2Ge2 single crystal, Pauli paramagnetism in uranium monocarbide, and induced magnetism on gold atoms in different environment: MnAu4, UAu4 and a pure gold metal.