Evaluation of the performance of event reconstruction algorithms in the JSNS experiment using a Cf calibration source

Lee, D. H.*; 百々 拓; 羽賀 勝洋; 原田 正英; 長谷川 勝一; 春日井 好己; 木下 秀孝; 増田 志歩; 明午 伸一郎; 酒井 健二; et al.

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 1072, p.170216_1 - 170216_6, 2025/03

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2025.170216

JSNS investigates short-baseline neutrino oscillations using a 24-meter baseline and a 17-tonne Gd-loaded liquid scintillator target. Accurate event-reconstruction algorithms are crucial for analyzing experimental data. The algorithms undergo meticulous validation through calibration with a Cf source. This paper outlines the methodology and evaluates the reconstruction performance, focusing on neutrino interactions up to approximately 50 MeV for sterile neutrino searches. Both Cf and Michel electron events are studied to evaluate reconstruction accuracy. The analysis concludes that the uncertainty of the fiducial volume, with an appropriate correction, is much less than the requirement of JSNS requirement (10%). Furthermore, the energy resolution is measured to be 3.3 0.1% for the Michel electron endpoint and 4.3 0.1% for the n-Gd peak in the central region.

First measurement of missing energy due to nuclear effects in monoenergetic neutrino charged-current interactions

Marzec, E.*; 百々 拓; 羽賀 勝洋; 原田 正英; 長谷川 勝一; 春日井 好己; 木下 秀孝; 増田 志歩; 明午 伸一郎; 酒井 健二; et al.

Physical Review Letters, 134, p.081801_1 - 081801_9, 2025/00

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.081801

We present the first measurement of the missing energy due to nuclear effects in monoenergetic, muon neutrino charged-current interactions on carbon, originating from decay at rest (), performed with the J-PARC Sterile Neutrino Search at the J-PARC Spallation Neutron Source liquid scintillator based experiment. Toward characterizing the neutrino interaction, ostensibly or C N, we define the missing energy as the energy transferred to the nucleus () minus the kinetic energy of the outgoing proton(s), , and relate this to visible energy in the detector, . The missing energy, which is naively expected to be zero in the absence of nuclear effects (e.g., nucleon separation energy, Fermi momenta, and final-state interactions), is uniquely sensitive to many aspects of the interaction, and has previously been inaccessible with neutrinos. The shape-only, differential cross section measurement reported, based on a pure double-coincidence kaon decay-at-rest signal (621 total events), provides detailed insight into neutrino-nucleus interactions, allowing even the nuclear orbital shell of the struck nucleon to be inferred. The measurement provides an important benchmark for models and event generators at hundreds of MeV neutrino energies, characterized by the difficult-to-model transition region between neutrino-nucleus and neutrino-nucleon scattering, and relevant for applications in nuclear physics, neutrino oscillation measurements, and Type-II supernova studies.

Study on the accidental background of the JSNS experiment

Lee, D. H.*; 百々 拓; 羽賀 勝洋; 原田 正英; 長谷川 勝一; 春日井 好己; 木下 秀孝; 増田 志歩; 明午 伸一郎; 酒井 健二; et al.

European Physical Journal C, 84, p.409_1 - 409_6, 2024/04

https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-12778-7

JSNS (J-PARC Sterile Neutrino Search at J-PARC Spallation Neutron Source) is an experiment that searches for sterile neutrinos via the observation of appearance oscillations using muon decay-at-rest neutrinos. The JSNS experiment performed data taking from 2021. In this manuscript, a study of the accidental background is presented. The rate of the accidental background is (9.290.39)10 / spill with 0.75 MW beam power and comparable to the expected number of signal events.

Superconducting dipole magnet for Hyperon spectrometer

Ahn, J. K.*; 長谷川 勝一; 今井 憲一*; 佐甲 博之; 佐藤 進; 谷田 聖; 他10名*

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 1047, p.167775_1 - 167775_13, 2023/02

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2022.167775

We have constructed a conduction-cooled superconducting dipole magnet for the Hyperon spectrometer at Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). The magnet is a Helmholtz-type dipole magnet with two circular coils with a radius of 500 mm separated by 500 mm. It provides a uniform magnetic field of 1.0 T or higher in a volume of mm 600 mm, covering the drift region of a time projection chamber (TPC). Owing to the target location inside the TPC, the Hyperon spectrometer has a broad angular coverage with a nearly solid angle. We have successfully excited the magnet up to 1.3 T. At 1.0 T, we operated it stably for more than 1 week in single-magnet configuration and double-magnet configuration with a normal-conducting 0.7-T dipole magnet located 30 cm apart. The measured magnetic field distribution in the TPC volume is consistent with the calculated field map.

Strangeness physics programs by S-2S at J-PARC

後神 利志*; 江端 健悟; 藤田 真奈美; 原田 健志; 長谷川 勝一; 細見 健二; 市川 裕大; 今井 憲一*; Kim, S.; 七村 拓野; et al.

EPJ Web of Conferences, 271, p.11002_1 - 11002_7, 2022/11

https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202227111002

In the K1.8 beam-line at Hadron Experimental Facility of J-PARC, a new magnetic spectrometer S-2S is being installed. S-2S was designed to achieve a high momentum resolution of in FWHM. Several strangeness-physics programs which require the high resolution will be realized by S-2S. The present article introduces J-PARC E70 (missing-mass spectroscopy of Be) and E94 (missing-mass spectroscopy of Li, B, and C) experiments.

Measurement of differential cross sections for elastic scattering in the momentum range 0.44-0.80 GeV/c

七村 拓野; 藤田 真奈美; 長谷川 勝一; 市川 真也; 市川 裕大; 今井 憲一*; 成木 恵; 佐藤 進; 佐甲 博之; 田村 裕和; et al.

Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Internet), 2022(9), p.093D01_1 - 093D01_35, 2022/09

https://doi.org/10.1093/ptep/ptac101

We performed a novel scattering experiment at the J-PARC Hadron Experimental Facility. Approximately 2400 elastic scattering events were identified from tagged particles in the momentum range 0.44 - 0.80 GeV/c. The differential cross sections of the elastic scattering were derived with much better precision than in previous experiments. The obtained differential cross sections were approximately 2 mb/sr or less, which were not as large as those predicted by the fss2 and FSS models based on the quark cluster model in the short-range region. By performing phase-shift analyses for the obtained differential cross sections, we experimentally derived the phase shifts of the and channels for the first time. The phase shift of the 3S1 channel, where a large repulsive core was predicted owing to the Pauli effect between quarks, was evaluated to be . If the sign of is assumed to be negative, the interaction in this channel is moderately repulsive, as the Nijmegen extended-sort-core models predicted.

HTTR-熱利用試験施設の安全設計の考え方

青木 健; 清水 厚志; 飯垣 和彦; 沖田 将一朗; 長谷川 武史; 水田 直紀; 佐藤 博之; 坂場 成昭

JAEA-Technology 2022-011, 60 Pages, 2022/07

JAEA-Technology-2022-011.pdf:2.08MB

日本原子力研究開発機構では、高温ガス炉による大量かつ安価なカーボンフリー水素製造技術の実用化を目指し、世界最高の原子炉出口冷却材温度950Cを達成した高温工学試験研究炉(HTTR)を用いて水素製造を行うHTTR-熱利用試験を計画している。HTTR-熱利用試験では、原子力規制委員会からの設置変更許可取得を通じて、高温ガス炉と水素製造施設の接続に関し、高い安全性を実現する安全設計を確立することが求められている。そこで、HTTR安全設計をベースに、施設の変更や水素製造施設の接続に伴い安全設計上新たに考慮すべき事象に対する対策を考慮し、HTTR-熱利用試験施設の安全設計の考え方を検討した。検討に当たっては、原子炉安全の観点からの十分な安全性を確保することを大前提としつつ、水素製造施設に対して、高圧ガス災害に対する安全確保の多くの実績を有する一般産業法規を適用することを基本方針とした。本報では、水素製造施設への高圧ガス保安法適用に係る合理性や条件、HTTR-熱利用試験施設の安全機能の重要度分類や耐震設計上の重要度分類、重要安全施設の選定、原子炉設置変更許可申請に係る安全設計の考え方に関する検討結果を報告する。

Systematic study of nuclear effects in Al, Au, Au, and HeAu collisions at GeV using production

Acharya, U. A.*; 長谷川 勝一; 今井 憲一*; 佐甲 博之; 佐藤 進; 谷田 聖; PHENIX Collaboration*; 他547名*

Physical Review C, 105(6), p.064902_1 - 064902_19, 2022/06

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.105.064902

The PHENIX collaboration presents a systematic study of production from , Al, Au, Au, and HeAu collisions at GeV. Measurements were performed with different centrality selections as well as the total inelastic, 0% - 100%, selection for all collision systems. For 0% - 100% collisions, the nuclear modification factors, , are consistent with unity for above 8 GeV/, but exhibit an enhancement in peripheral collisions and a suppression in central collisions. The enhancement and suppression characteristics are similar for all systems for the same centrality class. It is shown that for high-- production, the nucleons in the and He interact mostly independently with the Au nucleus and that the counter intuitive centrality dependence is likely due to a physical correlation between multiplicity and the presence of a hard scattering process. These observations disfavor models where parton energy loss has a significant contribution to nuclear modifications in small systems. Nuclear modifications at lower resemble the Cronin effect - an increase followed by a peak in central or inelastic collisions and a plateau in peripheral collisions. The peak height has a characteristic ordering by system size as Au Au HeAu Al. For collisions with Au ions, current calculations based on initial state cold nuclear matter effects result in the opposite order, suggesting the presence of other contributions to nuclear modifications, in particular at lower .

Kinematic dependence of azimuthal anisotropies in Au, Au, and He+Au at = 200 GeV

Acharya, U. A.*; 長谷川 勝一; 今井 憲一*; 佐甲 博之; 佐藤 進; 谷田 聖; PHENIX Collaboration*; 他378名*

Physical Review C, 105(2), p.024901_1 - 024901_13, 2022/02

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.105.024901

There is strong evidence for the formation of small droplets of quark-gluon plasma in He+Au collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and in +/Pb collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. In particular, the analysis of data at RHIC for different geometries obtained by varying the projectile size and shape has proven insightful. In the present analysis, we find excellent agreement with the previously published PHENIX at RHIC results on elliptical and triangular flow with an independent analysis via the two-particle correlation method, which has quite different systematic uncertainties and an independent code base. In addition, the results are extended to other detector combinations with different kinematic (pseudorapidity) coverage. These results provide additional constraints on contributions from nonflow and longitudinal decorrelations.

Transverse single spin asymmetries of forward neutrons in , Al, and Au collisions at = 200 GeV as a function of transverse and longitudinal momenta

Acharya, U. A.*; 長谷川 勝一; 今井 憲一*; 佐甲 博之; 佐藤 進; 谷田 聖; PHENIX Collaboration*; 他305名*

Physical Review D, 105(3), p.032004_1 - 032004_13, 2022/02

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.032004

In 2015 the PHENIX collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider recorded , Al, and Au collision data at center of mass energies of GeV with the proton beam(s) transversely polarized. At very forward rapidities relative to the polarized proton beam, neutrons were detected either inclusively or in (anti)correlation with detector activity related to hard collisions. The resulting single spin asymmetries, that were previously reported, have now been extracted as a function of the transverse momentum of the neutron as well as its longitudinal momentum fraction . The explicit kinematic dependence, combined with the correlation information allows for a closer look at the interplay of different mechanisms suggested to describe these asymmetries, such as hadronic interactions or electromagnetic interactions in ultra-peripheral collisions, UPC. Events that are correlated with a hard collision indeed display a mostly negative asymmetry that increases in magnitude as a function of transverse momentum with only little dependence on . In contrast, events that are not likely to have emerged from a hard collision display positive asymmetries for the nuclear collisions with a kinematic dependence that resembles that of a UPC based model. Because the UPC interaction depends strongly on the charge of the nucleus, those effects are very small for collisions, moderate for Al collisions, and large for Au collisions.