“…In most of them the radiation source was no longer a γ -ray radioactive source as used by DuMond but a solid, liquid, or gaseous sample placed in the beam line of a nuclear reactor or particle accelerator. Laue-type crystal spectrometers have been installed at nuclear reactors for, e.g., high-resolution n-γ spectroscopy experiments 17 and at particle accelerators for the study of, e.g., (α, xnγ ) nuclear reactions, 18 heavy-ion induced multiple atomic innershell ionization, [19][20][21] or X-rays from muonic 22 and pionic atoms. 23 More recently, the advent of third generation synchrotron radiation (SR) facilities and X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) sources have given a new boost to the domain and many XES (X-ray emission spectroscopy) and RIXS (resonant inelastic X-ray scattering) experiments have been carried out at such facilities using crystal spectrometers.…”