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Park, P.*; Ortiz, B. R.*; Spargue, M.*; Sakuya, A. P.*; Chen, S. A.*; Frontzek, M. D.*; Tian, W.*; Sibille, R.*; Mazzone, D. G.*; 田端 千紘; et al.
Nature Communications (Internet), 16, p.4384_1 - 4384_9, 2025/05
被引用回数:0Kagome metals with van Hove singularities (VHSs) near the Fermi level can host intriguing quantum phenomena, including chiral loop currents, electronic nematicity, and unconventional superconductivity. However, unconventional magnetic states driven by VHSs, such as spin-density waves (SDWs), have yet to be observed experimentally in kagome metals. Here, we present a comprehensive investigation of the magnetic and electronic structure of the layered kagome metal CeTiBi
, where the Ti kagome electronic structure interacts with a magnetic sublattice of Ce
= 1/2 moments. Our findings establish the rare-earth Kagome metals LnTi3Bi4 as a model platform where characteristic electronic structure of the kagome lattice plays a pivotal role in magnetic order.
西尾 勝久; 廣瀬 健太郎; 牧井 宏之; Orlandi, R.; Kean, K. R.*; 塚田 和明; 豊嶋 厚史*; 浅井 雅人; 佐藤 哲也; Chiera, N. M.*; et al.
Physical Review C, 111(4), p.044609_1 - 044609_12, 2025/04
被引用回数:0In spontaneous fission (SF) it is found that the mass-asymmetric fission of well-known actinides suddenly changes to the symmetric fission when nucleus has a mass number larger than 257. We have measured for the first time fission-fragment mass and total-kinetic-energy (TKE) distributions of the excited compound nucleus
Md, populated in the reaction
He+
Es, using the rare isotope
Es with a short half-life,
=276 days. The fission of
Md can be interpreted as involving 3 fission modes: an mass-asymmetric mode and two modes of mass-asymmetric fissions, the latter two are manifested by different TKE values. Predominantly symmetric fission was obtained at the excitation energy of 15.0 MeV. By increasing the energy to 18.0 MeV, the asymmetric fission mode dominates. Both such a strong change of fission modes within a small increase of excitation energy and the enhancement of asymmetric split are new phenomena in fission.
May, A. F.*; 田端 千紘; Okamoto, Satoshi*; Ortiz, B. R.*; Christianson, A. D.*; Yan, J.*; 金子 耕士; McGuire, M. A.*
Physical Review Materials (Internet), 9(2), p.024406_1 - 024406_13, 2025/02
被引用回数:0 パーセンタイル:0.00(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)The physical properties of single crystalline EuCuZn
P
were inspected via thermodynamic, transport, and neutron diffraction measurements. Eu
CuZn
P
is composed of EuCuP and EuZn
P
motifs stacked in a one-to-one ratio. The magnetic response of Eu
CuZn
P
is similar to that of EuZn
P
in its A-type antiferromagnetic (semiconducting) form.
佐藤 達彦; 橋本 慎太郎; Mrquez Dami
n, J. I.*; 仁井田 浩二*
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 557, p.165535_1 - 165535_8, 2024/12
被引用回数:0 パーセンタイル:0.00(Instruments & Instrumentation)Appropriate use of the variance reduction techniques such as weight-windows are indispensable for effectively designing the radiation shielding based on the Monte Carlo simulation. In this study, we developed a new algorithm of weight-window generator (WWG) relying solely on forward Monte Carlo simulation and implemented it into the Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System (PHITS). Our new algorithm leverages a PHITS-specific function called the "history counter", which serves as an event logger that can be arbitrarily defined by users. The performance of the new WWG was investigated by conducting benchmark simulations for both idealized and practical shielding calculations. The results of the benchmark simulations suggested that our new algorithm can reduce the computational time by up to an order of magnitude, though it becomes less beneficial when no apparent pathway for particles arriving in the tally regions is observed in generating the weight window values. With this new feature, PHITS has become further suitable for the shielding calculations against high-energy radiations even when their evaluated cross-section data are unavailable.
社本 真一; 山内 宏樹; 飯田 一樹*; 池内 和彦*; 金子 耕士; Chen, Y.-S.*; 矢野 真一郎*; Hsu, P.-T.*; Lee, M. K.*; Hall, A. E.*; et al.
Physical Review Research (Internet), 6(3), p.033303_1 - 033303_7, 2024/09
MnRhSiの磁気励起は少なくとも0.3から140meVに広がる。200Kでの非弾性散乱強度を積分することで、Mnサイト当たり約5
の磁気モーメントは、約5
であることがわかった。一方で、長距離磁気秩序の磁気モーメントは4Kでわずか2.61
であり、多くの部分が低温まで揺らいでいることがわかった。
Hong, Z.*; Ahmed, Z.*; Pellegrini, M.*; 山野 秀将; Erkan, N.*; Sharma, A. K.*; 岡本 孝司*
Progress in Nuclear Energy, 171, p.105160_1 - 105160_13, 2024/06
被引用回数:4 パーセンタイル:93.24(Nuclear Science & Technology)本研究では、BC粉末とステンレス鋼(SS)間との共晶反応はB
C粉ペレットとSS間とのそれより相当に速いことが分かった。粉末及びペレットに対して導出された反応速度定数は参考文献値によく一致している。また、粉末とペレットの場合の詳細微細構造をSEM/EDSを用いて組成分析を行った。粉末の場合、(Fe,Cr)Bからなる反応層として厚肉層が見られた。一方、ペレットの場合、2つの反応層が見られた。
山内 宏樹; Sari, D. P.*; 安井 幸夫*; 坂倉 輝俊*; 木村 宏之*; 中尾 朗子*; 大原 高志; 本田 孝志*; 樹神 克明; 井川 直樹; et al.
Physical Review Research (Internet), 6(1), p.013144_1 - 013144_9, 2024/02
-Mn-type family alloys Mn
have three-dimensional antiferromagnetic (AFM) corner-shared triangular network. The antiferromagnet Mn
RhSi shows magnetic short-range order (SRO) over a wide temperature range of approximately 500 K above the N
el temperature
= 190 K. Mn
CoSi has the smallest lattice parameter and the lowest
in the family compounds. The quantum critical point (QCP) from AFM to the quantum paramagnetic state is expected near a cubic lattice parameter of 6.15
of Mn
CoSi is only 140 K, quantum critical behavior is observed in Mn
CoSi as the enhancement of the electronic specific heat coefficient
. We study how the magnetic SRO appears in Mn
CoSi by using neutron scattering,
SR, and physical property measurements. The experimental results show that the neutron scattering intensity of the magnetic SRO does not change much regardless of the suppressed magnetic moment in the long-range magnetic ordered state compared to those of Mn
RhSi. The initial asymmetry drop ratio of
SR above
becomes small, and the magnetic SRO temperature
is suppressed to 240 K. The results suggest that the Mn
CoSi is close to the QCP in the Mn
system.
Li, C.-Y.; Wang, K.*; 内堀 昭寛; 岡野 靖; Pellegrini, M.*; Erkan, N.*; 高田 孝*; 岡本 孝司*
Applied Sciences (Internet), 13(13), p.7705_1 - 7705_29, 2023/07
被引用回数:2 パーセンタイル:37.97(Chemistry, Multidisciplinary)For a sodium-cooled fast reactor, the capability for stable cooling and avoiding re-criticality on the debris bed is essential for achieving in-vessel retention when severe accidents occur. However, an unexploited uncertainty still existed regarding the compound effect of the heterogeneous configuration and dynamic particle redistribution for the debris bed's criticality and cooling safety assessment. Therefore, this research aims to develop a numerical tool for investigating the effects of the different transformations of the heterogeneous configurations on the debris bed's criticality/cooling assessment. Based on the newly proposed methodology in this research, via integrating the Discrete Element Method (DEM) with Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Monte-Carlo-based Neutronics (MCN), the coupled CFD-DEM-MCN solver was constructed with the originally created interface to integrate two existing codes. The effects of the different bed configurations' transformations on the bed safety assessments were also quantitively confirmed, indicating that the effect of the particle-centralized fissile material had the dominant negative effect on the safety margin of avoiding re-criticality and particle re-melting accidents and had a more evident impact than the net bed-centralized effect. This coupled solver can serve to further assess the debris bed's safety via a multi-physics simulation approach, leading to safer SFR design concepts.
Hong, Z.*; Pellegrini, M.*; Erkan, N.*; Liao, H.*; Yang, H.*; 山野 秀将; 岡本 孝司*
Annals of Nuclear Energy, 180, p.109462_1 - 109462_9, 2023/01
被引用回数:3 パーセンタイル:29.47(Nuclear Science & Technology)実機制御棒の模擬材として、BC材とSUS304を用いて一連の実験を実施した。1450K-1500Kの温度範囲で共晶反応速度定数を得た結果、本研究で得られた反応速度定数は参照値と一致した。また、反応面の微細構造を観察し、組成分析を行った。
飯村 俊*; Rosenbusch, M.*; 高峰 愛子*; 角田 佑介*; 和田 道治*; Chen, S.*; Hou, D. S.*; Xian, W.*; 石山 博恒*; Yan, S.*; et al.
Physical Review Letters, 130(1), p.012501_1 - 012501_6, 2023/01
被引用回数:13 パーセンタイル:88.25(Physics, Multidisciplinary)The atomic masses of Sc,
Ti, and
V have been determined using the high-precision multireflection time-of-flight technique. The radioisotopes have been produced at RIKEN's Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory (RIBF) and delivered to the novel designed gas cell and multireflection system, which has been recently commissioned downstream of the ZeroDegree spectrometer following the BigRIPS separator. For
Ti and
V, the mass uncertainties have been reduced down to the order of 10 keV, shedding new light on the
shell effect in Ti and V isotopes by the first high-precision mass measurements of the critical species
Ti and
V. With the new precision achieved, we reveal the nonexistence of the
empirical two-neutron shell gaps for Ti and V, and the enhanced energy gap above the occupied
p
orbit is identified as a feature unique to Ca. We perform new Monte Carlo shell model calculations including the
d
and
g
orbits and compare the results with conventional shell model calculations, which exclude the
g
and the
d
orbits. The comparison indicates that the shell gap reduction in Ti is related to a partial occupation of the higher orbitals for the outer two valence neutrons at
.
山野 秀将; 高井 俊秀; 江村 優軌; 福山 博之*; 東 英生*; 西 剛史*; 太田 弘道*; 守田 幸路*; 中村 勤也*; 深井 尋史*; et al.
Proceedings of 13th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal-Hydraulics, Operation and Safety (NUTHOS-13) (Internet), 12 Pages, 2022/09
本発表はプロジェクト全体概要及び2020年度までの進捗概要について報告する。この論文における具体的成果は、共晶反応速度の測定並びに、SS坩堝の中にBCペレットを置いたB
C-SS共晶反応速度実験の数値解析を通じて、解析コード内の共晶反応を記述する物理モデルの妥当性を確認したことである。
Do, S.-H.*; Paddison, J. A. M.*; Sala, G.*; Williams, T. J.*; 金子 耕士; 桑原 慶太郎*; May, A. F.*; Yan, J.*; McGuire, M. A.*; Stone, M. B.*; et al.
Physical Review B, 106(6), p.L060408_1 - L060408_6, 2022/08
被引用回数:16 パーセンタイル:81.16(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)For topological magnon spectra, determining and explaining the presence or absence of a gap at a magnon crossing point is a central issue. An inelastic neutron scattering study of a single crystals is a powerful experimental technique to investigate the spin dynamics and hence is widely employed to probe the magnetic excitation spectra of topological materials. However, when the neutron intensity rapidly disperses, such as near a crossing point for a Dirac magnon, the apparent spectrum is extremely sensitive to experimental conditions including sample mosaic, resolution, and integration range. Here we study a gapless Dirac magnon candidate CrCl to show how the quantification of a gapless or gaped spectrum at the Dirac point is extremely sensitive to the integration range of data. Our work calls for a careful examination of reports of gaps in inelastic neutron scattering spectra to ensure that topological gaps are not misdiagnosed or overestimated due to experimental factors.
高木 里奈*; 松山 直文*; Ukleev, V.*; Yu, L.*; White, J. S.*; Francoual, S.*; Mardegan, J. R. L.*; 速水 賢*; 齋藤 開*; 金子 耕士; et al.
Nature Communications (Internet), 13, p.1472_1 - 1472_7, 2022/03
被引用回数:111 パーセンタイル:99.55(Multidisciplinary Sciences)Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable swirling spin textures with particle-like character, and have been intensively studied as a candidate of high-density information bit. While magnetic skyrmions were originally discovered in noncentrosymmetric systems, recently a nanometric skyrmion lattice has also been reported for centrosymmetric rare-earth compounds. For the latter systems, a novel skyrmion formation mechanism mediated by itinerant electrons has been proposed, and the search of a simpler model system allowing for a better understanding of their intricate magnetic phase diagram is highly demanded. Here, we report the discovery of square and rhombic lattices of nanometric skyrmions in a centrosymmetric binary compound EuAl, by performing small-angle neutron and resonant elastic X-ray scattering experiments. Unlike previously reported centrosymmetric skyrmion-hosting materials, EuAl
shows multiple-step reorientation of the fundamental magnetic modulation vector as a function of magnetic field, probably reflecting a delicate balance of associated itinerant-electron-mediated interactions. The present results demonstrate that a variety of distinctive skyrmion orders can be derived even in a simple centrosymmetric binary compound, which highlights rare-earth intermetallic systems as a promising platform to realize/control the competition of multiple topological magnetic phases in a single material.
小山 真一; 中桐 俊男; 逢坂 正彦; 吉田 啓之; 倉田 正輝; 池内 宏知; 前田 宏治; 佐々木 新治; 大西 貴士; 高野 公秀; et al.
廃炉・汚染水対策事業事務局ホームページ(インターネット), 144 Pages, 2021/08
令和2年度に原子力機構が補助事業者となって実施した「廃炉・汚染水対策事業費補助金(燃料デブリの性状把握のための分析・推定技術の開発(燃料デブリの分析精度の向上及び熱挙動の推定のための技術開発))」の成果概要を、最終報告として取りまとめた。本報告資料は、廃炉・汚染水対策事業事務局ウェブサイトにて公開される。
Li, C.-Y.; 内堀 昭寛; 高田 孝; Pellegrini, M.*; Erkan, N.*; 岡本 孝司*
第25回動力・エネルギー技術シンポジウム講演論文集(インターネット), 4 Pages, 2021/07
溶融炉心の原子炉容器内保持を達成するためには、デブリベッドの安定冷却と再臨界回避が重要である。本研究では、異なる物質から構成され、密度成層化したデブリベッドの挙動を評価するため、数値流体力学(CFD),個別要素法(DEM),モンテカルロ法を連成させた解析手法を構築した。本解析手法により、デブリベッドにおける密度成層化の挙動等を解析できることを確認した。
Du, Y.*; 吉田 健太*; 嶋田 雄介*; 外山 健*; 井上 耕治*; 荒河 一渡*; 鈴土 知明; Milan, K. J.*; Gerard, R.*; 大貫 惣明*; et al.
Materialia, 12, p.100778_1 - 100778_10, 2020/08
長期に原子炉圧力容器の健全性を確保するためには、照射が材料に及ぼす影響を理解する必要がある。本研究では我々が新規開発したWB-STEMを用いて、中性子照射された原子炉圧力容器試験片を焼鈍中、照射誘起転位ループの観察を行った。焼鈍温度を上げるとループの割合が増加していることが確認された。また、2つの
ループが衝突して
ループになる現象の観察に初めて成功した。転位に転位ループがデコレートする現象も観察され、分子動力学シミュレーションによってそのメカニズムが説明することができた。
羽場 宏光*; Fan, F.*; 加治 大哉*; 笠松 良崇*; 菊永 英寿*; 小森 有希子*; 近藤 成美*; 工藤 久昭*; 森本 幸司*; 森田 浩介*; et al.
Physical Review C, 102(2), p.024625_1 - 024625_12, 2020/08
被引用回数:7 パーセンタイル:55.65(Physics, Nuclear)The nuclide Bh was produced in the
Cm(
Na,5n)
Bh reaction at beam energies of 125.9, 130.6, and 135.3 MeV. Decay properties of
Bh were investigated with a rotating wheel apparatus for
and spontaneous fission (SF) spectrometry under low background conditions attained by a gas-jet transport system coupled to the RIKEN gas-filled recoil ion separator. The half-life of
Bh was measured to be
= 10.0
s. The
-particle energies of
Bh disperse widely in the range of 8.62 - 9.40 MeV. The maximum production cross section for the
Cm(
Na,5n)
Bh reaction was determined to be
= 57
14 pb at 130.6 MeV.
Rizaal, M.; 斉藤 拓巳*; 岡本 孝司*; Erkan, N.*; 中島 邦久; 逢坂 正彦
Mechanical Engineering Journal (Internet), 7(3), p.19-00563_1 - 19-00563_10, 2020/06
福島第一原子力発電所2号機において、一次冷却系の断熱材に使用されているケイ酸カルシウムへのセシウム(Cs)の吸着がペデスタル領域の高線量に影響している可能性が指摘されている。本研究では、高温でのCs吸着挙動評価の前段階として、室温でCsをケイ酸カルシウムに吸着させる試験を行った。吸着速度の解析の結果、基本的な吸着機構は化学吸着であることが示唆された。また、等温における吸着量のCs濃度依存性の評価により、単分子層の形成の後に多分子層が形成することが示唆された。
Zhan, Y.*; 桑田 裕介*; 丸山 清嵩*; 大川 富雄*; 榎木 光治*; 青柳 光裕; 高田 孝
Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 112, p.109953_1 - 109953_8, 2020/04
被引用回数:16 パーセンタイル:73.31(Thermodynamics)The breakup process of liquid jet was explored through visualization to develop a prediction model for liquid splash. Water, ethanol aqueous solution, and glycerin aqueous solution were used as the test liquids to explore the effects of surface tension and viscosity. Since the droplets were produced due to jet breakup, the impact frequency was zero just downstream of the nozzle and increased asymptotically with an increase in the distance from the nozzle. Thus, auxiliary correlations were developed for the minimum breakup length where the jet breakup is initiated, the maximum breakup length where the jet breakup is completed, the mean droplet size and the impact frequency. It was demonstrated that the impact frequencies calculated by the proposed model agree with the experimental data fairly well. For the application to coolant leakage in sodium-cooled fast reactors, a simple method to ensure conservative estimation of the impact frequency was also proposed.
田中 泰貴*; 森田 浩介*; 森本 幸司*; 加治 大哉*; 羽場 宏光*; Boll, R. A.*; Brewer, N. T.*; Van Cleve, S.*; Dean, D. J.*; 石澤 倫*; et al.
Physical Review Letters, 124(5), p.052502_1 - 052502_6, 2020/02
被引用回数:33 パーセンタイル:85.04(Physics, Multidisciplinary)The excitation functions for quasielastic scattering of Ne+
Cm,
Mg+
Cm,
Ca+
U are measured using a gas-filled recoil ion separator The quasielastic barrier distributions are extracted for these systems and are compared with coupled-channel calculations. The results indicate that the barrier distribution is affected dominantly by deformation of the actinide target nuclei, but also by vibrational or rotational excitations of the projectile nuclei, as well as neutron transfer processes before capture. From a comparison between the experimental barrier distributions and the evaporation residue cross sections for Sg (Z=106), Hs (108), Cn (112), and Lv (116), it is suggested that the hot fusion reactions take advantage of a compact collision, where the projectile approaches along the short axis of a prolately deformed nucleus. A new method is proposed to estimate the optimum incident energy to synthesize unknown superheavy nuclei using the barrier distribution.