Dear Alexei, dear Claude, A follow up on the window: The NIM 197 (1982) 305 paper of Chapin et al. describes their Be window in some detail and also mentions a flapper valve (hard to get that into our set-up!). The Be thickness was 2" x 0.030". They also mention the decoupling of the window from the bending flanges. I would need drawing like fig.7 to ask for a quote. Regards Peter