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中村 詔司; 芝原 雄司*; 遠藤 駿典; Rovira Leveroni, G.; 木村 敦
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 62(3), p.300 - 307, 2025/03
被引用回数:0 パーセンタイル:0.00(Nuclear Science & Technology)As nuclear facilities are dismantled in decommissioning, large amount of various waste is generated. Even more inconveniently, waste is radioactive due to neutron activation. Thus, the neutron capture cross-sections of nuclides targeted in decommissioning are required to evaluate the radioactivity produced. In this work, Fe nuclide was selected among objective nuclides for decommissioning, and its thermal-neutron capture cross-section was measured by a neutron activation method at the graphite thermal column of Kyoto University Research Reactor in 5-MW operation. The thermal-neutron capture cross-section was derived using
s convention. The present work obtained 1.36
0.03 barns for the
Fe(n,
)
Fe reaction. The present result supports the JENDL-5 evaluation within 2
. If updated with currently recommended nuclear data, some of the reported past data would support the present result.
中村 詔司; 芝原 雄司*; 遠藤 駿典; Rovira Leveroni, G.; 木村 敦
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 14 Pages, 2025/00
被引用回数:0 パーセンタイル:0.00(Nuclear Science & Technology)In the decommissioning of nuclear facilities, large amounts of radioactive waste are generated due to neutron activation. In that case, neutron capture cross-sections of nuclides targeted in decommissioning are required to evaluate their radioactivities produced. The present study selected two nuclides, Er and
Hf, among objective ones for decommissioning, and thermal-neutron capture cross-sections for their parent nuclides were measured by the neutron activation method at the Kyoto University Research Reactor under 1-MW operation. The thermal-neutron capture cross-sections were derived on the basis of Westcott's convention. The present study obtained the results as follows: 8.19
0.35 barns for the
Er(n,
)
Er reaction and 13.57
0.14 barns for the
Hf(n,
)
Hf reaction. As a by-product, the measurements of the Hf sample also yielded 0.427
0.006 barns for the
Hf(n,
)
Hf reaction. This study revealed that some experimental and data evaluations differ from the present results by more than the experimental uncertainties.
中村 詔司; 芝原 雄司*; 遠藤 駿典; Rovira Leveroni, G.; 木村 敦
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 61(11), p.1415 - 1430, 2024/11
被引用回数:1 パーセンタイル:68.64(Nuclear Science & Technology)廃止措置においては、生成放射能の評価に資する核データとして、中性子捕獲断面積を整備する必要がある。本研究では、整備すべき対象核種のうちSc,
Cu,
Zn,
Ag及び
Inを選定し、KURのTC-Pnを用いてそれらの熱中性子捕獲断面積測定を行った。その結果、熱中性子捕獲断面積の結果が、以下のとおり得られた:
Sc(n,
)
Sc反応は27.18
0.28 barn、
Cu(n,
)
Cu反応は4.34
0.06 barn、
Zn(n,
)
Zn反応は0.719
0.011 barn、
Ag(n,
)
Ag反応は4.05
0.05 barn、そして
In(n,
)
In
反応は8.53
0.27 barn。ScとZnの結果は、これまでに報告されている評価値を誤差範囲で支持するが、一方、他の核種については評価値と異なる結果となった。得られた結果は、生成量評価にはもちろん、これらの核種を中性束モニタとして利用する場合に用いることが考えられる。
遠藤 駿典; 安部 亮太*; 藤岡 宏之*; 猪野 隆*; 岩本 修; 岩本 信之; 河村 しほり*; 木村 敦; 北口 雅暁*; 小林 龍珠*; et al.
European Physical Journal A, 60(8), p.166_1 - 166_10, 2024/08
被引用回数:0 パーセンタイル:0.00(Physics, Nuclear)Measurements of -ray circular polarization emitted from neutron capture reactions provide valuable information for nuclear physics studies. The spin and parity of excited states can be determined by measuring the circular polarization from polarized neutron capture reactions. Furthermore, the
-ray circular polarization in a neutron capture resonance is crucial for studying the enhancement effect of parity nonconservation in compound nuclei. The
-ray circular polarization can be measured using a polarimeter based on magnetic Compton scattering. A polarimeter was constructed, and its performance indicators were evaluated using a circularly polarized
-ray beam. Furthermore, as a demonstration, the
-ray circular polarization was measured in
S(n,
)
S reactions with polarized neutrons.
中村 詔司; 遠藤 駿典; Rovira Leveroni, G.; 木村 敦; 芝原 雄司*
KURNS Progress Report 2023, P. 46, 2024/07
本研究は、生成放射能を評価するために、廃止措置で問題となる核種について熱中性子捕獲断面積を測定するものである。本件では、対象核種の中からFe、
Erおよび
Hfを選定し、京大原子炉にて放射化法によりそれらの熱中性子捕獲断面積を測定した。今回、
Fe(n,
)
Fe反応について1.23
0.03 barn、
Er(n,
)
Er反応について8.19
0.35 barnを、そして
Hf(n,
)
Hf反応について13.57
0.14 barnを得た。また、Hf試料の測定において副産物として、
Hf(n,
)
Hf反応について0.427
0.006 barnを得た。評価済みデータライブラリに採用されているデータは、今回得られた結果の不確かさ以上に違うことを明らかにした。
Rovira Leveroni, G.; 木村 敦; 中村 詔司; 遠藤 駿典; 岩本 修; 岩本 信之; 藤 暢輔; 瀬川 麻里子; 前田 亮; 片渕 竜也*
European Physical Journal A, 60(5), p.120_1 - 120_14, 2024/05
被引用回数:0 パーセンタイル:0.00(Physics, Nuclear)The neutron capture cross section of I and
I were measured from the thermal to the keV energy region with the NaI(Tl) spectrometer of the Accurate Neutron-Nucleus Reaction Measurement Instrument beamline in the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex. The neutron capture yield was determined by means of the total energy detection principle with the pulse-height weighting technique. The present cross section results for
I were normalized using the saturated resonance method with a thick-enough
Au and provide good agreement with JENDL-5 from thermal to about 500 keV. A resonance analysis with the REFIT code was performed and the resonance parameters for
I below 310 eV are presented in this work. In the case of
I, the three largest resonances of
I were employed for the cross section normalization. The present results for
I are the first experimental data for the neutron region between thermal and 20 eV. The present data display a different energy dependence than that in the JENDL-5 and JEFF-3.3 and much similar to that in ENDF/B-VIII.0. Notwithstanding, good agreement was found at the thermal region between the present measurement of 31.6
1.3 b and both evaluated and most experimental data.
Rovira Leveroni, G.; 木村 敦; 中村 詔司; 遠藤 駿典; 岩本 修; 岩本 信之; 片渕 竜也*; 児玉 有*; 中野 秀仁*; 佐藤 八起*
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 61(4), p.459 - 477, 2024/04
被引用回数:1 パーセンタイル:30.19(Nuclear Science & Technology)The neutron capture cross-section of Am was measured from 10 meV to about 1 MeV using the NaI(Tl) spectrometer of the Accurate Neutron-Nucleus Reaction Measurement Instrument (ANNRI) beamline in the Materials and Life Science (MLF) facility of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). The total energy detection principle was applied in conjunction with the pulse-height weighting technique to derive the neutron capture yield. The present cross-section results were normalized using a
Au sample measurement by applying the saturated resonance method. The thermal cross section was measured to be 708
22 b, in agreement within uncertainties to the present evaluation in JENDL-5 of 709 b. Moreover, the results of a shape resonance analysis of the resolved resonance region are also provided in the present dissertation.
遠藤 駿典; 木村 敦; 中村 詔司; 岩本 修; 岩本 信之; Rovira Leveroni, G.; 藤 暢輔; 瀬川 麻里子; 前田 亮
Nuclear Science and Engineering, 198(4), p.786 - 803, 2024/04
被引用回数:1 パーセンタイル:30.19(Nuclear Science & Technology)The neutron transmission ratio and capture yield for Ta were measured in J-PARC MLF ANNRI to improve the accuracy of resonance parameters. The total cross section was determined from the transmission ratio in the energy range from 0.2 to 150 eV. The capture cross section was obtained from the capture yield using the pulse height weighting technique (PHWT) in the energy range from thermal to 150 eV. The obtained transmission ratio and capture cross-section were fitted by the resonance analysis code, REFIT, and the resonance parameters were determined below 150 eV. It was also discussed the correlations caused by fitting based on statistical uncertainty and correlations for systematic uncertainty based on sample thickness in the transmission measurements.
Rovira Leveroni, G.; 木村 敦; 中村 詔司; 遠藤 駿典; 岩本 修; 岩本 信之; 藤 暢輔; 瀬川 麻里子; 前田 亮; 片渕 竜也*
JAEA-Conf 2023-001, p.74 - 79, 2024/02
Measurements to measure the neutron capture cross section of I and
I were performed in the Accurate Neutron Nucleus Reaction Measurement Instrument (ANNRI) at the Materials and Life Science Facility (MLF) of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). The time-of-flight (TOF) methodology was employed to determine the neutron capture cross section from thermal to about 100 keV. The results from
I were used to normalize the
I cross section. Preliminary results of a resonance analysis below 100 eV for
I are also presented.
遠藤 駿典; 河村 しほり*; 奥平 琢也*; 吉川 大幹*; Rovira Leveroni, G.; 木村 敦; 中村 詔司; 岩本 修; 岩本 信之
European Physical Journal A, 59(12), p.288_1 - 288_12, 2023/12
被引用回数:1 パーセンタイル:30.87(Physics, Nuclear)ランタン(La)-139の断面積と共鳴パラメータは、原子力分野への応用や基礎核物理の研究にとって重要である。本論文では、大強度陽子加速器施設(J-PARC)のANNRIにてLaの中性子全断面積と捕獲断面積を測定した。Negative共鳴を含む4つの共鳴の共鳴パラメータを、共鳴解析コードREFITを用いて求めた。その結果いくつかの共鳴パラメータにおいて、評価済み核データライブラリとの不一致が見られた。さらに全断面積を再現するために、スピン依存する散乱半径もフィットした。得られた散乱半径は、評価済み核データライブラリで記録されたものよりも大きいことがわかった。
木村 敦; 中村 詔司; 遠藤 駿典; Rovira Leveroni, G.; 岩本 修; 岩本 信之; 原田 秀郎; 片渕 竜也*; 寺田 和司*; 堀 順一*; et al.
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 60(6), p.678 - 696, 2023/06
被引用回数:2 パーセンタイル:31.89(Nuclear Science & Technology)Neutron total and capture cross-section measurements of Gd and
Gd were performed in the ANNRI at the MLF of the J-PARC. The neutron total cross sections were determined in the energy region from 5 to 100 meV. At the thermal neutron energy, the total cross sections were obtained to be 59.4
1.7 and 251.9
4.6 kilobarn for
Gd and
Gd, respectively. The neutron capture cross sections were determined in the energy region from 3.5 to 100 meV with an innovative method by taking the ratio of the detected capture event rate between thin and thick samples. At the thermal energy, the capture cross sections were obtained as 59.0
2.5 and 247.4
3.9 kilobarn for
Gd and
Gd, respectively. The present total and capture cross sections agree well within the standard deviations. The results for
Gd were found to be consistent with the values in JENDL-4.0 and the experimental data given by Mastromarco et al. and Leinweber et al. within one standard deviation. Moreover, the present results for
Gd agreed with the evaluated data in JENDL-4.0 and the experimental data by M
ller et al. within one standard deviation and agreed with the data by Mastromarco et al. within 1.4 standard deviations. However, they disagree (11% larger) with the experimental result by Leinweber et al.
中野 秀仁*; 片渕 竜也*; 寺田 和司*; 木村 敦; 中村 詔司; 遠藤 駿典; Rovira Leveroni, G.; 児玉 有*
EPJ Web of Conferences, 284, p.01032_1 - 01032_3, 2023/05
被引用回数:0 パーセンタイル:0.00(Nuclear Science & Technology)In the present work, the neutron capture cross section measurements were carried out using the Accurate Neutron Nucleus Reaction Measurement Instrument (ANNRI) at the Materials and Life Science Facility (MLF) of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). A high intensity pulsed neutron beam from Japan Spallation Neutron Source at the MLF using the 3 GeV proton beam was utilized. NaI(Tl) detectors of ANNRI were used for capture measurements. The time-of-flight (TOF) method was employed to determine the incident neutron energy. Two-dimensional data, TOF and pulse-height (PH), were acquired and the data were analyzed based on a PH weighting technique. Resonance parameters were derived from resonance analysis using the REFIT code.
児玉 有*; 片渕 竜也*; Rovira Leveroni, G.; 木村 敦; 中村 詔司; 遠藤 駿典; 中野 秀仁*; 佐藤 八起*; 堀 順一*; 芝原 雄司*; et al.
EPJ Web of Conferences, 284, p.01024_1 - 01024_3, 2023/05
被引用回数:0 パーセンタイル:0.00(Nuclear Science & Technology)The measurements were performed using the Accurate Neutron-Nucleus Reaction Measurement Instrument (ANNRI) beamline at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). An intense pulsed neutron beam was produced via spallation reaction in the mercury target of the Material and Life Science Experimental Facility by the 3-GeV proton beam of the J-PARC facility. A Time of Flight (TOF) method using a NaI(Tl) detector was employed in this measurements and a pulse-height weighting technique was used to derive a neutron capture yield. A sample of Am-243 with a mass of 38.14 mg (281.8 MBq) was used for the measurements. The neutron energy spectrum was obtained by using the 478 keV gamma-rays from the B(n,
)
Li reaction with a boron sample. A preliminary value for the capture cross section of Am-243 will be presented in the contribution.
Rovira Leveroni, G.; 木村 敦; 中村 詔司; 遠藤 駿典; 岩本 修; 岩本 信之; 片渕 竜也*; 児玉 有*; 中野 秀仁*; 堀 順一*; et al.
EPJ Web of Conferences, 284, p.06007_1 - 06007_4, 2023/05
被引用回数:0 パーセンタイル:0.00(Nuclear Science & Technology)A neutron filtering system has been installed at the ANNRI beamline in order to bypass the doublet structure of the incident neutron beam in the keV region. Thick cylindrical slabs of Fe,
Si and
Cr which share the characteristic of a sharp minimum in the neutron total cross section, were separately introduced in an intermediate stage of the beamline, before the NaI(Tl) spectrometer experimental area. The filtered neutron beams were analyzed by means of both neutron capture and transmission experiments. Moreover, further information about the neutron energy distribution within the filtered peaks was derived through the use of Monte-Carlo simulations with the PHITS code. The characteristics of the filtered neutron beams for
Fe,
i and
Cr are presented together with
Au standard experimental results to assess the performance of the neutron filtering system in neutron capture cross section experiments.
Rovira Leveroni, G.; 木村 敦; 中村 詔司; 遠藤 駿典; 岩本 修; 岩本 信之; 片渕 竜也*; 児玉 有*; 中野 秀仁*
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 60(5), p.489 - 499, 2023/05
被引用回数:3 パーセンタイル:45.58(Nuclear Science & Technology)The neutron capture cross-section of Am was measured in the keV neutron range using the recently implemented neutron filtering system of the Accurate Neutron-Nucleus Reaction Measurement Instrument (ANNRI) beamline in the Materials and Life Science (MLF) facility of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). Filter arrays consisting of 20 cm of
Fe and
Si were employed in separate measurements to provide filtered neutron beams with averaged neutron energies of 23.5 (Fe), 51.5 and 127.7 (Si) keV. The present
Am results were obtained relative to the
Au neutron capture yield by applying the total energy detection principle together with the pulse-height weighting technique. The
Am neutron capture cross section was determined as 2.72
0.29 b at 23.5 keV, 2.14
0.26 b at 51.5 keV and 1.32
0.10 b at 127.7 keV with total uncertainties in the range of 8 to 12
, much lower in comparison to the latest time-of-flight experimental data available.
遠藤 駿典; 木村 敦; 中村 詔司; 岩本 修; 岩本 信之; Rovira Leveroni, G.
EPJ Web of Conferences, 281, p.00012_1 - 00012_5, 2023/03
In resonance analysis, experimental uncertainties affect the accuracy of resonance parameters. A resonance analysis code REFIT can consider the statistical uncertainty of the experimental data in evaluation of the resonance parameter uncertainty. On the other hand, since the systematic uncertainties of the sample thickness and normalization, which is proportional to the cross-section, are not independent at each measurement point, they must be treated differently from the statistical uncertainty. However, their treatment has not been discussed in detail so far. In this study, we evaluated the effect of the systematic uncertainties of experimental data on deduced resonance parameters by varying sample-thickness values used for the REFIT code. Covariance of resonance parameters ascribed to systematic uncertainties were evaluated from the neutron transmission data of natural zinc measured at the J-PARC MLF ANNRI. We will introduce this evaluation method and discuss the feature of obtained correlations.
片渕 竜也*; 岩本 修; 堀 順一*; 木村 敦; 岩本 信之; 中村 詔司; Rovira Leveroni, G.; 遠藤 駿典; 芝原 雄司*; 寺田 和司*; et al.
EPJ Web of Conferences, 281, p.00014_1 - 00014_4, 2023/03
Long-lived minor actinides (MA) in nuclear waste from nuclear power plants are a long-standing issue to continue nuclear energy production. To solve the issue, researchers have suggested nuclear transmutation, in which long-lived radionuclides are transmuted into stable or shorter-life nuclides via neutron-induced nuclear reactions. Development of nuclear transmutation systems as an accelerator-driven system requires accurate neutron nuclear reaction data. The present research project entitled "Study on accuracy improvement of fast-neutron capture reaction data of long-lived MAs for development of nuclear transmutation systems" have been conducted as a joint collaboration, including Tokyo Tech, Japan Atomic Energy Agency and Kyoto University. This project focuses on the neutron capture reaction of MAs, especially Np,
Am and
Am, in the fast neutron energy region. The final goal of this project is to improve the accuracies of the neutron capture cross sections of
Np,
Am and
Am employing a high-intensity neutron beam from a spallation source of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) that reduces uncertainties of measurement. To achieve the goal, a neutron beam filter system in J-PARC, sample characteristic assay, and theoretical reaction model study were developed. In this contribution, the overview and results of the project will be presented.
河村 しほり*; 遠藤 駿典; 岩本 修; 岩本 信之; 木村 敦; 北口 雅暁*; 中村 詔司; 奥平 琢也*; Rovira Leveroni, G.; 清水 裕彦*; et al.
JAEA-Conf 2023-001, p.115 - 120, 2023/02
複合核共鳴における全角運動量は、核データを構成する1つの重要なパラメータである。しかしながら直接的な測定は、核編極標的を用いる必要があるなど難しい場合が多く、核データとして整備された値はランダムに割り振られた推定値であることが多い。本研究では共鳴から放出される複数のガンマ線のうち、2つの低エネルギーガンマ線の強度比を取る手法を用いて、実験結果に基づきTaの共鳴の全角運動量を推定した。実験はJ-PARC・MLF・ANNRIにて、Ge検出器を用いて行った。本発表では実験・解析の詳細および既存の核データの値や先行研究との比較について報告を行う。
中野 秀仁*; 片渕 竜也*; Rovira Leveroni, G.; 児玉 有*; 寺田 和司*; 木村 敦; 中村 詔司; 遠藤 駿典
Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 59(12), p.1499 - 1506, 2022/12
被引用回数:2 パーセンタイル:31.89(Nuclear Science & Technology)A neutron monitoring detection system was developed for neutron capture cross section measurement using a spallation neutron source. A combination of a plastic scintillator and a thin LiF foil was adopted for the detector. The detector system was tested to study the feasibility of the system. Neutron irradiation experiments were conducted with the Accurate Neutron-Nucleus Reaction Measurement Instrument in the Materials and Life Science facility of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex. A neutron time-of-flight spectrum was successfully measured without significant count loss or detector paralysis. The statistical uncertainty reached 0.7% at neutron energies around 6 meV.
Rovira Leveroni, G.; 木村 敦; 中村 詔司; 遠藤 駿典; 岩本 修; 岩本 信之; 片渕 竜也*; 児玉 有*; 中野 秀仁*; 佐藤 八起*
JAEA-Conf 2022-001, p.91 - 96, 2022/11
Neutron capture cross section measurements were performed in the Accurate Neutron Nucleus Reaction Measurement Instrument (ANNRI) at the Materials and Life Science Facility (MLF) of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). The time-of-flight (TOF) methodology was employed in a non-filter condition experiment to determine the neutron capture cross section from thermal to about 100 eV. Moreover, experiments were performed using the neutron filtering system to determine the neutron capture cross section at the energy of 23.5 keV using Fe as filter material. In this study, the preliminary results of the Am neutron capture cross section from 10 meV to about 100 eV determined in TOF experiments and at 23.5 keV from Fe filter experiments are presented. In the TOF experiments, the
Am neutron capture cross section was normalized by means of the saturated resonance method using a Au sample with a mass of 1.5 g. In addition, for the Fe filter experiments, the capture cross section of
Am at the energy of 23.5 keV was determined relative to the
Au yield obtained from a measurement using the same Au sample. Moreover, early-stage results of a resonance analysis of the
Am capture resonances are also presented.