Present status of sample environment at J-PARC MLF

Aso, Tomokazu ; Yamauchi, Yasuhiro; Sakaguchi, Yoshifumi*; Munakata, Koji*; Ishikado, Motoyuki*; Kawamura, Seiko   ; Yokoo, Tetsuya*; Watanabe, Masao  ; Takata, Shinichi  ; Hattori, Takanori   ; Kambara, Wataru; Oku, Takayuki   ; Kawakita, Yukinobu  ; Aizawa, Kazuya  

In FY2013, the SE team was officially organized in Technology Development Section in MLF with succeeding the previous ad hoc SE team. We are working on operation of so-called beam-line (BL)-common SE equipment and development of the SE devices as well as the previous SE team. We have already prepared a vertical-field superconducting magnet, a dilution refrigerator insert, a furnace with Nb heater and 2K cryostat as the BL-common SE equipment. In this fiscal year, a bottom-loading type He cryostat will be introduced. Moreover, we have just started developing high pressure system by collaborating with High Pressure Group in MLF, to comply with users' requests. We have also discussed the general purpose of apparatus for pulse magnet and for hydrogen environment. We plan to prepare more working area for the SE equipment, whose number gradually increases, and sample preparation and characterization rooms for users in the new building, which is under construction.