Performances of oscillating radial collimator for the Fermi chopper spectrometer 4SEASONS at J-PARC

Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Kambara, Wataru*; Iida, Kazuki*; Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Kamazawa, Kazuya*; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Ishikado, Motoyuki*; Aoyama, Kazuhiro*

Physica B; Condensed Matter, 551, p.480 - 483, 2018/12

BB2017-0466.pdf:0.78MB

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2018.05.028

Recently there has been an increasing need for inelastic neutron scattering experiments under some special environments such as magnetic fields, pressure and high temperatures. In order to obtain high quality data, the unnecessary scattering caused by sample environmental apparatus should be suppressed as much as possible. We have developed an oscillating radial collimator with a view to satisfying users' needs, which is specialized for the Fermi chopper spectrometer 4SEASONS at J-PARC.4SEASONS provides relatively high incident energies, and thus we chose hydrogen free metal sheets as the collimator blades. The control system of this oscillating radial collimator enables us to flexibly tune the oscillating pattern, such as the oscillating speed and oscillating angle. In this presentation, we report the performances and remaining issues of the newly developed oscillating radial collimator for 4SEASONS.

Performance confirmation operation of water environment control facility

Magome, Hirokatsu; Okada, Yuji; Tomita, Kenji; Iida, Kazuhiro; Ando, Hitoshi; Yonekawa, Akihisa; Ueda, Haruyasu; Hanawa, Hiroshi; Kanno, Masaru; Sakuta, Yoshiyuki

JAEA-Technology 2015-025, 100 Pages, 2015/09

JAEA-Technology-2015-025.pdf:78.32MB

In Japan Atomic Energy Agency, in order to solve the problem in the long-term operation of a light water reactor, preparation which does the irradiation experiment of light-water reactor fuel and material was advanced. JMTR stopped after the 165th operation cycle in August 2006, and is advancing renewal of the irradiation facility towards re-operation. The material irradiation test facility was installed from 2008 fiscal year to 2012 fiscal year in JMTR. The material irradiation test facility is used for IASCC study, and that consists of mainly three equipments. This report is described performance operating test of the water environmental control facilities for IASCC study carried out 2013 fiscal year.

Current status of the "Hybrid Kurotama model" for total reaction cross sections

Sihver, L.*; Kohama, Akihisa*; Iida, Kei*; Oyamatsu, Kazuhiro*; Hashimoto, Shintaro; Iwase, Hiroshi*; Niita, Koji*

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 334, p.34 - 39, 2014/09

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2014.04.021

Accurate calculations of the nucleon + nucleus and nucleus + nucleus total reaction cross sections are of great importance for designing accelerator facilities and estimating dose in particle therapy with particle and heavy ion transport calculations, because the probability of nuclear reactions in the calculations depends on the cross sections. The Kurotama model assumes a target nucleus to be Black Sphere (BS), and gives the total reaction cross sections systematically using its radius determined from proton-nucleus elastic scattering data. However, the BS model breaks down below around 100 MeV/u. In this study, we developed the "hybrid Kurotama" model by connecting the BS model to the semi-empirical model of Tripathi et al. at low energies. The model has been tested against available p + He, p + nucleus, and nucleus + nucleus data and an overall better agreement has been found than for earlier published models. This model is suitable to be used in particle transport calculations.

Installation of the water environment irradiation facility for the IASCC research under the BWR irradiation environment, 1

Okada, Yuji; Magome, Hirokatsu; Hanawa, Hiroshi; Omi, Masao; Kanno, Masaru; Iida, Kazuhiro; Ando, Hitoshi; Shibata, Mitsunobu; Yonekawa, Akihisa; Ueda, Haruyasu

JAEA-Technology 2013-019, 236 Pages, 2013/10

JAEA-Technology-2013-019.pdf:45.07MB

In Japan Atomic Energy Agency, in order to solve the problem in the long-term operation of a light water reactor, preparation which does the irradiation experiment of light-water reactor fuel and material is advanced. JMTR stopped after the 165th operation cycle in August 2006, and is advancing renewal of the irradiation facility towards re-operation. This material irradiation test facility and power ramping test facility for doing the neutron irradiation test of the fuel and material for light water reactors is scheduled to be manufactured and installed between the 2008 fiscal year and the 2012 fiscal year. This report summarizes manufacture and installation of the material irradiation test facility for IASCC research carried out from the 2008 fiscal year to the 2010 fiscal year.

Experimental study on dilution coefficients measurement of capsule dilution tube for fuel transient tests

Inoue, Shuichi; Omuro, Tadao; Nabeya, Hideaki; Matsui, Yoshinori; Iida, Kazuhiro; Ito, Kazuyuki; Kimura, Akihiro; Kanno, Masaru

JAEA-Technology 2010-010, 27 Pages, 2012/05

JAEA-Technology-2010-010.pdf:1.99MB

In fuel irradiation transient tests using a boiling water capsule, a dilution tube has been installed in the boiling water capsule in order to detect fission products (FP) from an irradiated fuel, in case of the fuel failure during the transient, by a radiation monitor located outside the reactor. When the fuel failure occurs, the released FP flows out from the capsule through the dilution tube. The dilution tube is designed to minimize the released FP that can be detected by the radiation monitor located outside the reactor. This report summarized the measurement results of the dilution tube installed in the boiling water capsule.

Nuclear liquid drop model revisited

Oyamatsu, Kazuhiro*; Iida, Kei*; Koura, Hiroyuki

Aichi Shukutoku Daigaku Gendai Shakai Kenkyuka Kenkyu Hokoku, (3), p.1 - 10, 2008/06

http://www2.aasa.ac.jp/graduate/gsscs/reports01/PDF/03-001.pdf

Liquid drop model is a representative model to describe binding energy and size of nuclei. This model is conventional and well reproduces bulk properties of nuclei even in current studies on nuclei. Nowadays structure of neutron-rich nuclei is paid attention to not only in nuclear physics but also in astrophysics because these nuclei play a quite important role to solve a problem of origin of elements in universe. In this paper, we investigate nuclear symmetry energy and nuclear surface energy by using the nuclear liquid drop model with some higher-order terms. The coefficients of these term are determined so as to reproduce measured nuclear masses of approximately 2200 nuclides. From this analysis, we find an indication that the fourth-order term of the symmetry energy is required and the curvature term of it is negligible. Regarding a mass-number dependency on nuclear radius, we also find that the dependency of lighter nuclei (typically with mass number, A, less than 50) is larger than that of heavier nuclei.

Metallic fission product release from failed coated fuel particles; ICF-51H capsule irradiation test

Tobita, Tsutomu; Minato, Kazuo; Sawa, Kazuhiro; Fukuda, Kosaku; Sekino, Hajime; Iida, Shozo;

JAERI-Research 96-014, 34 Pages, 1996/03

JAERI-Research-96-014.pdf:2.15MB

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Masses of unstable nuclei and the equation of state of asymmetric nuclear matter, 2

Oyamatsu, Kazuhiro*; Iida, Kei*; Koura, Hiroyuki

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Nuclear liquid drop model revisited

Oyamatsu, Kazuhiro*; Iida, Kei*; Koura, Hiroyuki

no journal, , 

Liquid drop model is a representative model to describe binding energy and size of nuclei. This model is well reproduces bulk properties of nuclei even in current studies on nuclei. In this presentation, we investigate nuclear symmetry energy and nuclear surface energy by using the nuclear liquid drop model with some higher-order terms. The coefficients of these term are determined so as to reproduce measured nuclear masses of approximately 2200 nuclides. From this analysis we find an indication that the fourth-order terms of the symmetry energy is required and the curvature term of it is negligible. Regarding a mass-number dependency on nuclear radius, we also find that the dependency of lighter nuclei (typically with mass number, ) is larger than that of heavier nuclei.

Performance evaluation test of radial collimators for chopper spectrometer at J-PARC

Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Kambara, Wataru; Aoyama, Kazuhiro; Yamauchi, Yasuhiro; Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Iida, Kazuki*; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Nakajima, Kenji; et al.

no journal, , 

In recent years, the need for neutron inelastic scattering experiments in special environments under the strong magnetic field and the high temperature is increasing. On the other hand, there is a problem that the unnecessary scattering originating from the sample environment devices affects the detection of weak inelastic signals. To solve this problem, we have been developing the radial collimator for chopper spectrometer at J-PARC. In this talk, we plan to introduce the performance evaluation results of our radial collimator.