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Shigyo, Nobuhiro*; Uozumi, Yusuke*; Uehara, Haruhiko*; Nishizawa, Tomoya*; Hirabayashi, Keiichi*; Satoh, Daiki; Sanami, Toshiya*; Koba, Yusuke*; Takada, Masashi*; Matsufuji, Naruhiro*
Progress in Nuclear Science and Technology (Internet), 4, p.709 - 712, 2014/04
Heavy ion cancer therapy has been increased by reason of its clinical advantages. During the treatment, the secondary particles such as neutron and 
-ray are produced by nuclear reactions of a heavy ion incidence on a nucleus in a patient body. Estimation of the secondary neutrons yields data is essential for assessment of radiation safety on both of workers and public in treatment facilities. Neutron energy spectra from a water phantom simulating the patient body were obtained at GSI only for forward directions. We measured the neutron yields from carbon ion incident on a water phantom in wide angular range from 15
to 90 with the therapeutic ion energy.
-ray and neutron energy for area monitoring system in the IFMIF/EVEDA accelerator buildingTakahashi, Hiroki; Maebara, Sunao; Sakaki, Hironao; Hirabayashi, Keiichi*; Hidaka, Kosuke*; Shigyo, Nobuhiro*; Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Sagara, Kenshi*
Fusion Engineering and Design, 87(7-8), p.1235 - 1238, 2012/08
Times Cited Count：0 Percentile：0.00(Nuclear Science & Technology)The Engineering Validation of the IFMIF/EVEDA prototype accelerator, up to 9 MeV by supplying the deuteron beam of 125 mA, will be performed at the BA site in Rokkasho. A design of this area monitoring system, comprising of Si semiconductors and ionization chambers for covering wide energy spectrum of -rays and 
He counters for neutrons, is now in progress. To establish an applicability of this monitoring system, photon and neutron energies have to be suppressed to the detector ranges of 1.5 MeV and 15 MeV, respectively. For this purpose, the reduction of neutron and photon energies throughout shield of water in a beam dump and concrete layer is evaluated by PHITS code, using the experimental data of neutron source spectra. In this article, a similar model using the beam dump structure and the position with a degree of leaning for concrete wall in the accelerator vault is used, and their energy reduction including the air is evaluated.
Uozumi, Yusuke*; Shigyo, Nobuhiro*; Kajimoto, Tsuyoshi*; Hirabayashi, Keiichi*; Uehara, Haruhiko*; Nishizawa, Tomoya*; Satoh, Daiki; Sanami, Toshiya*; Koba, Yusuke*; Takada, Masashi*; et al.
HIMAC-138, p.237 - 238, 2012/08
In the heavy-ion radiotherapy, considerable discussion has been attracted regarding the potential for second cancer induction by secondary neutrons produced from the primary heavy-ion fragmentation. It is important to measure energy-angle double-differential cross sections (DDXs) of neutron- and photon-productions in heavy-ion nuclear reactions. Since it is notoriously hard to measure the spectral cross sections of neutrons in an energy range of around 1 MeV where the RBE value reaches at its maximum. In the project by last year, experiments were carried out at the synchrotron HIMAC of NIRS, Japan. The beams were 
C and 
O of 290 MeV/u and bombarded a carbon target. In measurements of neutrons and photons were used liquid scintillator detectors of 5" and 2". We have succeeded to lower the neutron energy threshold down to 0.6 MeV. The present results for neutron productions are in reasonable agreements with PHITS. Since our goal in technical aspects has been fulfilled, measurements will be continued for other reactions.
-ray and neutron area monitoring system for the IFMIF/EVEDA accelerator buildingTakahashi, Hiroki; Maebara, Sunao; Kojima, Toshiyuki; Kubo, Takashi; Sakaki, Hironao; Takeuchi, Hiroshi; Shidara, Hiroyuki; Hirabayashi, Keiichi*; Hidaka, Kosuke*; Shigyo, Nobuhiro*; et al.
Fusion Engineering and Design, 86(9-11), p.2795 - 2798, 2011/10
Times Cited Count：2 Percentile：17.88(Nuclear Science & Technology)In the IFMIF/EVEDA accelerator, the engineering validation up to 9 MeV by employing the deuteron beam of 125 mA are planning at the BA site in Rokkasho, Aomori, Japan, the personnel protection system (PPS) is indispensable. The PPS inhibit the beam by receiving the interlock signal from the -ray and neutron monitoring system. The -ray and neutron detection level which is planned to be adopted are "80 keV to 1.5 MeV (-ray)" and "0.025 eV to 15 MeV (neutron)". For the present shielding design, it is absolutely imperative for the safety review to validate the shielding ability which makes detection level lower than these -ray and neutron detector. For this purpose, the energy reduction of neutron and photon for water and concrete is evaluated by PHITS code. From the calculating results, it is found that the photon energy range extended to 10 MeV by water and concrete shielding material only, an additional shielding to decrease the photon energy of less than 1.5 MeV is indispensable.
Maebara, Sunao; Takahashi, Hiroki; Sakaki, Hironao; Hirabayashi, Keiichi*; Hidaka, Kosuke*; Shigyo, Nobuhiro*; Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Sagara, Kenshi*
JAEA-Conf 2011-002, p.199 - 204, 2011/09
Shigyo, Nobuhiro*; Hidaka, Kosuke*; Hirabayashi, Keiichi*; Nakamura, Yasuhiro*; Moriguchi, Daisuke*; Kumabe, Masahiro*; Hirano, Hidetaka*; Hirayama, Shusuke*; Naito, Yuki*; Motooka, Chikahide*; et al.
Journal of the Korean Physical Society, 59(2), p.1725 - 1728, 2011/08
Shigyo, Nobuhiro*; Uozumi, Yusuke*; Uehara, Haruhiko*; Nishizawa, Tomoya*; Hirabayashi, Keiichi*; Satoh, Daiki; Sanami, Toshiya*; Koba, Yusuke*; Takada, Masashi*; Matsufuji, Naruhiro*
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Heavy ion cancer therapy has been increased by reason of its clinical advantages. During the treatment, the secondary particles such as neutron and -ray are produced by nuclear reactions of a heavy ion incidence on a nucleus in a patient body. Estimation of the secondary neutrons yields data is essential for assessment of radiation safety on both of workers and public in treatment facilities. Neutron energy spectra from a water phantom simulating the patient body were obtained at GSI only for forward directions. We measured the neutron yields from carbon ion incident on a water phantom in wide angular range from 15
to 90 with the therapeutic ion energy.
Hirabayashi, Keiichi*; Hirano, Hidetaka*; Hidaka, Kosuke*; Moriguchi, Daisuke*; Nakamura, Yasuhiro*; Shigyo, Nobuhiro*; Hirayama, Shusuke*; Naito, Yuki*; Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Takahashi, Hiroki; et al.
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Shigyo, Nobuhiro*; Hidaka, Kosuke*; Hirabayashi, Keiichi*; Nakamura, Yasuhiro*; Moriguchi, Daisuke*; Hirano, Hidetaka*; Hirayama, Shusuke*; Naito, Yuki*; Watanabe, Yukinobu*; Sagara, Kenshi*; et al.
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