For high-pressure experiments using total scattering spectrometer NOVA at J-PARC

Hattori, Takanori   ; Katayama, Yoshinori; Machida, Akihiko; Otomo, Toshiya*; Suzuya, Kentaro

To reveal hydrogen-metal interaction in metal hydride systems with high hydrogen density, we have constructed the high-pressure device for neutron diffraction at total scattering spectrometer NOVA in J-PARC. The device consists of the Paris-Edinburgh press, the alignment stages, the automatically regulated oil pump system and the temperature control system. By using this device, diffraction data are expected to be taken at pressures above 20 GPa over wide Q-range of 1-40 A with the resolution of Q/Q = 0.6%, which enables us to determine hydrogen positions in high hydrogen-density materials in the real-space resolution of 0.16A.