廃棄物安全試験施設(WASTEF)におけるガンマ線照射利用

佐野 成人; 山下 直輝; 渡邊 勝哉; 塚田 学*; 星野 一豊*; 平井 功希; 池上 雄太*; 田代 信介; 吉田 涼一朗; 畠山 祐一; et al.

JAEA-Technology 2023-029, 36 Pages, 2024/03

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廃棄物安全試験施設(WASTEF)においては、令和元年度に原子力科学研究所内の第4研究棟よりガンマ線照射装置「ガンマセル220」を移設し、ガンマ線照射利用が開始された。当初は本装置の所有者である安全研究センター燃料サイクル安全研究ディビジョン サイクル安全研究グループがメインユーザーとして試験を実施していたが、令和4年度以降、日本原子力研究開発機構外部も含む他のユーザーの利用も開始された。ガンマ線照射装置「ガンマセル220」は、カナダNordion International Inc.製であり、平成元年度に購入してから、内蔵されるCo線源の線源更新を1回実施し、核燃料サイクル等に係る安全研究の目的で、今日まで利用されている。本報告書は、ガンマ線照射装置「ガンマセル220」設備概要、WASTEFにおける許認可、利用状況、保守点検及び今後の展望についてまとめたものである。

Oxidation of anatase TiO(001) surface using supersonic seeded oxygen molecular beam

勝部 大樹*; 大野 真也*; 高柳 周平*; 尾島 章輝*; 前田 元康*; 折口 直紀*; 小川 新*; 池田 夏紀*; 青柳 良英*; 甲谷 唯人*; et al.

Langmuir, 37(42), p.12313 - 12317, 2021/10

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c01752

超音速分子ビーム(SSMB)を用いて、アナターゼ型TiO(001)表面の酸素空孔の酸化を調べた。SSMBによって表面およびサブサーフェイスの酸素空孔を除去できた。格子間空孔が酸素空孔の大部分と考えられるが、SSMBによって効果的に除去できた。表面の酸素空孔は、TiO結晶成長後の状態では安定であるが、SSMBを用いて同様に効果的に除去できた。

J-PARC E07; Systematic study of double strangeness system with hybrid emulsion method

吉田 純也; 赤石 貴也; 藤田 真奈美; 長谷川 勝一; 橋本 直; 細見 健二; 市川 真也; 市川 裕大; 今井 憲一*; Kim, S.; et al.

JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 33, p.011112_1 - 011112_8, 2021/03

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSCP.33.011112

J-PARC E07 is the most ambitious and complex emulsion experiment to date investigating double hypernuclei with Hybrid emulsion method. The physics run at the K1.8 beam line in the J-PARC hadron experimental facility have been completed in 2017. The emulsion sheets are presently being analyzed with dedicated optical microscopes. Current statistics are estimated to be more 3 times than that of previous experiments. Quantitative data on the and interaction are being accumulated successfully via analysis of double and hypernuclei. Multiple hypernucleus candidates suggests several features about hypernucleus that the identification efficiency of C is significantly higher than other mode, many daughters of C are identified as He or Be, and multiple bound states of exist in the N nucleus. An analysis of X-ray spectroscopy of hyperatoms are ongoing.

Measurement of displacement cross-sections of copper and iron for proton with kinetic energies in the range 0.4 - 3 GeV

松田 洋樹; 明午 伸一郎; 岩元 洋介; 吉田 誠*; 長谷川 勝一; 前川 藤夫; 岩元 大樹; 中本 建志*; 石田 卓*; 牧村 俊助*

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 57(10), p.1141 - 1151, 2020/10

https://doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2020.1771453

加速器駆動型核変換システム(ADS)等の陽子ビーム加速器施設におけるビーム窓などの構造材の損傷評価には、原子当たりの弾き出し数(dpa)が損傷指標として広く用いられる。dpaの評価は弾き出し断面積に基づいて行われるものの、20MeV以上のエネルギー領域の陽子に対する弾き出し断面積の実験データは乏しく、計算モデルの間でも約8倍の差が存在している。このため、弾き出し断面積を実験的に取得するのは計算に用いるモデルの評価のために重要となる。弾き出し断面積の取得のため、J-PARCの加速器施設において、0.4-3GeVにわたる陽子エネルギー領域における銅と鉄の断面積を測定した。弾き出し断面積は、損傷を保持するために極低温に冷却された試料における、陽子ビームに金する抵抗率変化により得ることができる。本測定で得られた実験結果を元に、計算モデルの比較検討を行った。広く用いられているNorgertt-Robinson-Torrens (NRT)モデルは、実験値を3.5倍過大評価することが判明した。一方、近年の分子動力学に基づく非熱的再結合補正(arc)モデルは実験値をよく再現したため、銅と鉄の損傷評価にはarcモデルを使うべきであると結論づけられた。

Detailed structural study on the poly(vinyl alcohol) adsorption layers on a Si substrate with solvent vapor-induced swelling

宮崎 司*; 宮田 登*; 吉田 鉄生*; 有馬 寛*; 津村 佳弘*; 鳥飼 直也*; 青木 裕之; 山本 勝宏*; 金谷 利治*; 川口 大輔*; et al.

Langmuir, 36(13), p.3415 - 3424, 2020/04

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b03964

We investigated in detail the structures in the poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) adsorption layers on a Si substrate, which remained on the substrate after immersing the relatively thick 30 - 50 nm films in hot water, by neutron reflectometry under humid conditions. For the PVA with a degree of saponification exceeding 98 mol %, the adsorption layer exhibits a three-layered structure in the thickness direction. The bottom layer is considered to be the so-called inner adsorption layer that is not fully swollen with water vapor. This may be because the polymer chains in the inner adsorption layer are strongly constrained onto the substrate, which inhibits water vapor penetration. The polymer chains in this layer have many contact points to the substrate via the hydrogen bonding between the hydroxyl groups in the polymer chain and the silanol groups on the surface of the Si substrate and consequently exhibit extremely slow dynamics. Therefore, it is inferred that the bottom layer is fully amorphous. Furthermore, we consider the middle layer to be somewhat amorphous because parts of the molecular chains are pinned below the interface between the middle and bottom layers. The molecular chains in the top layer become more mobile and ordered, owing to the large distance from the strongly constrained bottom layer; therefore, they exhibit a much lower degree of swelling compared to the middle amorphous layer. Meanwhile, for the PVA with a much lower degree of saponification, the adsorption layer structure consists of the two-layers. The bottom layer forms the inner adsorption layer that moderately swells with water vapor because the polymer chains have few contact points to the substrate. The molecular chains in the middle layer, therefore, are somewhat crystallizable because of this weak constraint.

High-rate performance of a time projection chamber for an H-dibaryon search experiment at J-PARC

Kim, S. H.*; 市川 裕大; 佐甲 博之; 長谷川 勝一; 早川 修平*; 七村 拓野*; 佐藤 進; 谷田 聖; 吉田 純也; 他11名*

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 940, p.359 - 370, 2019/10

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.06.050

We have developed a gas electron multiplier (GEM)-based time projection chamber (TPC) for the H-dibaryon search experiment at J-PARC. High-rate beam particles enter a TPC gas volume of approximately 0.2 m, in a direction perpendicular to the electric field. A long-rectangular hollow section is located inside the TPC volume to accommodate a diamond target. We commissioned the TPC using 230 MeV protons with beam rates of up to 1 MHz. The TPC data acquisition system collected 5768 pad signals in full readout mode, with almost 100% efficiency, at a preset trigger rate of 230 Hz. We operated the TPC in an Ar/CH gas mixture (90/10) without a magnetic field. The spatial resolutions on the pad plane are measured to be 400-700 m, which correspond to 230-300 m in a magnetic field of 1 T. We confirmed high tracking capability at beam rates of up to 1 MHz.

New precise measurements of muonium hyperfine structure at J-PARC MUSE

Strasser, P.*; 阿部 充志*; 青木 正治*; Choi, S.*; 深尾 祥紀*; 東 芳隆*; 樋口 嵩*; 飯沼 裕美*; 池戸 豊*; 石田 勝彦*; et al.

EPJ Web of Conferences, 198, p.00003_1 - 00003_8, 2019/01

https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201919800003

High precision measurements of the ground state hyperfine structure (HFS) of muonium is a stringent tool for testing bound-state quantum electrodynamics (QED) theory, determining fundamental constants of the muon magnetic moment and mass, and searches for new physics. Muonium is the most suitable system to test QED because both theoretical and experimental values can be precisely determined. Previous measurements were performed decades ago at LAMPF with uncertainties mostly dominated by statistical errors. At the J-PARC Muon Science Facility (MUSE), the MuSEUM collaboration is planning complementary measurements of muonium HFS both at zero and high magnetic field. The new high-intensity muon beam that will soon be available at H-Line will provide an opportunity to improve the precision of these measurements by one order of magnitude. An overview of the different aspects of these new muonium HFS measurements, the current status of the preparation for high-field measurements, and the latest results at zero field are presented.

Study of the screening survey using an ambient dose equivalent rate survey meter in criticality accidentsy

星 勝也; 辻村 憲雄; 吉田 忠義; 栗原 治*; Kim, E.*; 矢島 千秋*

Progress in Nuclear Science and Technology (Internet), 6, p.152 - 155, 2019/01

https://doi.org/10.15669/pnst.6.152

When a criticality accident occurs, a screening survey to triage high-dose radiation exposed persons is performed. We have established a rapid method for the screening survey by measuring the dose rate mainly from Na on the victims' body surface with a conventional NaI(Tl) scintillation survey meter. In this study, a water-filled slab phantom containing NaCl was irradiated with neutrons from a Cf neutron source. The radioactivity concentration of Na produced in the phantom was determined by means of both -ray spectrometry and simulations using the Monte Carlo N-Particle Transport Code. The ambient dose equivalent rates at the phantom's outer surface were simulated by the MCNP, and also were directly measured with a NaI(Tl) scintillation survey meter. From the experiments and calculations, we obtained the results that 1 Gy (neutron absorbed dose) corresponded to 18-76 Sv h (ambient dose equivalent rate) at the surface of the victim's body, which can be easily distinguished from normal background levels. Therefore, this method allows us to rapidly screen high-dose radiation exposed victims.

New precise measurement of muonium hyperfine structure interval at J-PARC

上野 恭裕*; 青木 正治*; 深尾 祥紀*; 東 芳隆*; 樋口 嵩*; 飯沼 裕美*; 池戸 豊*; 石田 勝彦*; 伊藤 孝; 岩崎 雅彦*; et al.

Hyperfine Interactions, 238(1), p.14_1 - 14_6, 2017/11

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-016-1381-7

MuSEUM is an international collaboration aiming at a new precise measurement of the muonium hyperfine structure at J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex). Utilizing its intense pulsed muon beam, we expect a ten-fold improvement for both measurements at high magnetic field and zero magnetic field. We have developed a sophisticated monitoring system, including a beam profile monitor to measure the 3D distribution of muonium atoms to suppress the systematic uncertainty.

Time-of-flight elastic and inelastic neutron scattering studies on the localized 4d electron layered perovskite LaMoO

飯田 一樹*; 梶本 亮一; 水野 雄介*; 蒲沢 和也*; 稲村 泰弘; 星川 晃範*; 吉田 幸彦*; 松川 健*; 石垣 徹*; 河村 幸彦*; et al.

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 86(6), p.064803_1 - 064803_6, 2017/06

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.86.064803

The magnetic structure and spin wave excitations in the quasi-square-lattice layered perovskite compound LaMoO were studied by a combination of neutron diffraction and inelastic neutron scattering techniques using polycrystalline sample. Neutron powder diffraction refinement revealed that the magnetic structure is ferrimagnetic in the plane with antiferromagnetic stacking along the -axis. The inelastic neutron scattering results display strong easy-axis magnetic anisotropy along the -axis due to the spin-orbit interaction in Mo ions. The model Hamiltonian consisting of in-plane anisotropic exchange interactions, the interlayer exchange interaction, and easy-axis single-ion anisotropy can explain our inelastic neutron scattering data well. Strong Ising-like anisotropy and weak interlayer coupling compared with the intralayer exchange interaction can explain both the high-temperature magnetoresistance and long-time magnetization decay recently observed in LaMoO.