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Kikuchi, Tatsuya*; Nakajima, Kenji; Kawamura, Seiko; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Wakai, Daisuke*; Aoyama, Kazuhiro*; Iwahashi, Takaaki*; Kambara, Wataru*
Physica B; Condensed Matter, 564, p.45 - 53, 2019/07
Times Cited Count:1 Percentile:4.76(Physics, Condensed Matter)Details of the background, that is, unwanted signals accumulated by the data acquisition system of neutron instruments, observed by the cold-neutron chopper spectrometer AMATERAS installed at the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility at J-PARC are reported. In the design phase of AMATERAS, we carefully considered the achievement of high signal-to-noise ratio, and possible countermeasures were implemented. Actually, recent scientific outputs from AMATERAS indicates that the spectrometer is one of excellent neutron instruments with low background. In spite of that, in nine years of AMATERAS operation, we have encountered unwanted signals due to various reasons, including gamma-rays emitted at materials on or near the beam line including the sample itself, scattered neutrons from the beam line devices, air scattering, electronic noise in data acquisition system, cosmic rays, T0 burst, and other unknown sources. In this report, we discuss the background observed by AMATERAS, especially in the conditions of without samples, comprehensively. The possible sources of these signals and the countermeasures considered against the above sources are discussed, which may be helpful to those who are engaged in other existing or planned neutron-scattering instruments.
Kawamura, Seiko; Takahashi, Ryuta*; Ishikado, Motoyuki*; Yamauchi, Yasuhiro*; Nakamura, Masatoshi*; Ouchi, Keiichi*; Kira, Hiroshi*; Kambara, Wataru*; Aoyama, Kazuhiro*; Sakaguchi, Yoshifumi*; et al.
Journal of Neutron Research, 21(1-2), p.17 - 22, 2019/05
The Cryogenics and Magnets group in the Sample Environment team is responsible for operation of cryostats and magnets for user's experiments at the MLF in J-PARC. We have introduced a top-loading He cryostat, a bottom-loading He cryostat, a dilution refrigerator insert and a superconducting magnet. The frequency of use of them dramatically becomes higher in these two years, as the beam power and the number of proposal increase. To respond such situation, we have made efforts to enhance performance of these equipment as follows. The He cryostat originally involves an operation software for automatic initial cooling down to the base temperature and automatic re-charge of He. Recently we made an additional program for automatic temperature control with only the sorb heater. Last year, a new outer vacuum chamber of the magnet with an oscillating radial collimator (ORC) was fabricated. The data quality was drastically improved by introducing this ORC so that the magnet can be used even for the inelastic neutron scattering experiments.
Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Ishikado, Motoyuki*; Kira, Hiroshi*; Kaneko, Koji; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Kamazawa, Kazuya*; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Iida, Kazuki*; Murai, Naoki; et al.
Physica B; Condensed Matter, 556, p.26 - 30, 2019/03
Times Cited Count:2 Percentile:10.61(Physics, Condensed Matter)Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Kambara, Wataru*; Iida, Kazuki*; Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Kamazawa, Kazuya*; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Ishikado, Motoyuki*; Aoyama, Kazuhiro*
Physica B; Condensed Matter, 551, p.480 - 483, 2018/12
Times Cited Count:4 Percentile:20.71(Physics, Condensed Matter)Recently there has been an increasing need for inelastic neutron scattering experiments under some special environments such as magnetic fields, pressure and high temperatures. In order to obtain high quality data, the unnecessary scattering caused by sample environmental apparatus should be suppressed as much as possible. We have developed an oscillating radial collimator with a view to satisfying users' needs, which is specialized for the Fermi chopper spectrometer 4SEASONS at J-PARC.4SEASONS provides relatively high incident energies, and thus we chose hydrogen free metal sheets as the collimator blades. The control system of this oscillating radial collimator enables us to flexibly tune the oscillating pattern, such as the oscillating speed and oscillating angle. In this presentation, we report the performances and remaining issues of the newly developed oscillating radial collimator for 4SEASONS.
Nakajima, Kenji; Kawamura, Seiko; Kikuchi, Tatsuya*; Kofu, Maiko; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Kambara, Wataru*; Aoyama, Kazuhiro*; Wakai, Daisuke*; Harada, Masahide; et al.
Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 1021(1), p.012031_1 - 012031_5, 2018/06
Times Cited Count:5 Percentile:94.52(Nuclear Science & Technology)Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Kamazawa, Kazuya*; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Iida, Kazuki*; Ishikado, Motoyuki*; Nakajima, Kenji; Kawamura, Seiko; Nakatani, Takeshi; et al.
JAEA-Conf 2015-002, p.319 - 329, 2016/02
Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Kambara, Wataru; Aoyama, Kazuhiro; Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Nakajima, Kenji; Kawamura, Seiko; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Kikuchi, Tatsuya; Inamura, Yasuhiro; et al.
JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 8, p.036011_1 - 036011_6, 2015/09
The needs for inelastic neutron scattering experiments under the special sample environment such as strong magnetic field and high temperature are recently increasing. However, the unwanted scatterings originating from these devices affect the detection of weak inelastic signals. In order to overcome this problem we have developed an oscillating radial collimator specialized for the chopper spectrometer at Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility (MLF) in J-PARC. In this study, we will report the performances of newly-developed oscillating radial collimators both for 4SEASONS and AMATERAS.
Misumi, Kazuhiro*; Tsumune, Daisuke*; Tsubono, Takaki*; Tateda, Yutaka*; Aoyama, Michio*; Kobayashi, Takuya; Hirose, Katsumi*
Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 136, p.218 - 228, 2014/10
Times Cited Count:22 Percentile:54.1(Environmental Sciences)Major controls on spatiotemporal variations of Cs activity in seabed sediments derived from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant accident during the first year after the accident were investigated by using numerical simulations. The model successfully reproduced major features of the observed spatiotemporal variations of Cs activity in sediments. The spatial pattern of Cs in sediments, which mainly reflected the history of Cs activity in the bottom water overlying the sediment and the sediment particle size distribution, became established during the first several months after the accident. Taking Cs activities in sediments in the coastal area and in the vicinity of the power plant into account, increased the simulated total inventory of Cs in sediments off the Fukushima coast to a value on the order of 10 Bq.
Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Kambara, Wataru; Aoyama, Kazuhiro; Yamauchi, Yasuhiro; Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Iida, Kazuki*; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Nakajima, Kenji; et al.
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In recent years, the need for neutron inelastic scattering experiments in special environments under the strong magnetic field and the high temperature is increasing. On the other hand, there is a problem that the unnecessary scattering originating from the sample environment devices affects the detection of weak inelastic signals. To solve this problem, we have been developing the radial collimator for chopper spectrometer at J-PARC. In this talk, we plan to introduce the performance evaluation results of our radial collimator.
Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Iida, Kazuki*; Ishikado, Motoyuki*; Suzuki, Junichi*; Nakajima, Kenji; Kawamura, Seiko; Nakatani, Takeshi; et al.
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Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Kambara, Wataru; Yamauchi, Yasuhiro; Aoyama, Kazuhiro; Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Iida, Kazuki*; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Nakajima, Kenji; et al.
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Recently, there is a growing need for neutron inelastic scattering experiments under special sample environments such as strong magnetic field and high temperatures. However the unwanted scattering originating from the sample environment equipment adversely affect the detection of weak inelastic signal. In order to overcome these difficulties, we have developed the radial collimators for chopper spectrometers at J-PARC. In this report we will show the results of performance evaluation tests for radial collimators.
Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Kamazawa, Kazuya*; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Iida, Kazuki*; Ishikado, Motoyuki*; Suzuki, Junichi*; Nakajima, Kenji; Kawamura, Seiko; et al.
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Nakajima, Kenji; Kawamura, Seiko; Kikuchi, Tatsuya; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Tanaka, Hiromichi; Iwahashi, Takaaki; Kambara, Wataru; et al.
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AMATERAS is a cold-neutron multi disk-chopper spectrometer at J-PARC. AMATERAS is designed to realize high intensity and fine and flexible energy resolution measurements in quasielastic and inelastic neutron scattering experiments from cold to thermal neutron energy region. AMATERAS had the first neutron beam in May 2009. After then, experiments of more than 70 proposals (including 17 in house projects proposals) have been carried out and results were distributed as 15 scientific papers and more than 100 presentations at domestic and international scientific meetings by users.
Nakajima, Kenji; Kawamura, Seiko; Kikuchi, Tatsuya; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Soyama, Kazuhiko; Harada, Masahide; Oikawa, Kenichi; et al.
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Kambara, Wataru; Aoyama, Kazuhiro; Yamauchi, Yasuhiro; Iwahashi, Takaaki; Ono, Shino; Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Shibata, Kaoru; Nakajima, Kenji; Kawamura, Seiko; et al.
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Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Kamazawa, Kazuya*; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Iida, Kazuki*; Ishikado, Motoyuki*; Nakajima, Kenji; Kawamura, Seiko; Nakatani, Takeshi; et al.
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Nakajima, Kenji; Kawamura, Seiko; Kikuchi, Tatsuya; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Soyama, Kazuhiko; Arai, Masatoshi; Aoyama, Kazuhiro; et al.
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Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Aoyama, Kazuhiro; Kambara, Wataru*; Kawakami, Kazuhiro; Kubo, Naoya; Kamazawa, Kazuya*; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Iida, Kazuki*; et al.
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We have developed a newly designed Fermi chopper for MLF/BL01 4SEASONS, and has been open for users since March 2015. It was found that the gain factor achieved in the low-energy region is more than 10, thus, we succeeded to greatly improve the measurement efficiency of 4SEASONS. In this presentation we will show the details of both specification and design for a newly-developed Fermi chopper.
Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Nakajima, Kenji; Kawamura, Seiko; Nakatani, Takeshi; Kambara, Wataru*; Kubo, Naoya; Aoyama, Kazuhiro; Kawakami, Kazuhiro; et al.
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Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Kamazawa, Kazuya*; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Iida, Kazuki*; Ishikado, Motoyuki*; Nakajima, Kenji; Kawamura, Seiko; Nakatani, Takeshi; et al.
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