Possible future upgrades of the direct-geometry chopper spectrometer 4SEASONS

梶本 亮一; 中村 充孝; 蒲沢 和也*; 稲村 泰弘; 飯田 一樹*; 池内 和彦*; 石角 元志*

EPJ Web of Conferences, 272, p.02007_1 - 02007_8, 2022/11

https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202227202007

4SEASONS is a direct geometry time-of-flight spectrometer installed in the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility, the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex. It is used to study atomic andspin dynamics in the energy range of meV to meV. Since more than a decade has crossed after the first inelastic scattering experiment, it is essential to consider upgrading the instrument to improve its flexibility and performance. In this paper, we discuss the possible medium-term upgrades of key components of the instrument like the chopper system, which are achievable with the current technology and at reasonable cost. Herein, we demonstrated that 4SEASONS can improve the energy resolution by a factor of two, remove frame overlap of adjacent incident energies, significantly improve the asymmetry in the pulse shape, and increase the flux by a factor of 1.5, without major technical difficulties.

Evidence for strong correlations at finite temperatures in the dimerized magnet NaCuTeO

Shangguan, Y.*; Bao, S.*; Dong, Z.-Y.*; Cai, Z.*; Wang, W.*; Huang, Z.*; Ma, Z.*; Liao, J.*; Zhao, X.*; 梶本 亮一; et al.

Physical Review B, 104(22), p.224430_1 - 224430_8, 2021/12

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.104.224430

Dimerized magnets forming alternating Heisenberg chains exhibit quantum coherence and entanglement and thus can find potential applications in quantum information and computation. However, magnetic systems typically undergo thermal decoherence at finite temperatures. Here, we show inelastic neutron scattering results on an alternating antiferromagnetic-ferromagnetic chain compound NaCuTeO that the excited quasiparticles can counter thermal decoherence and maintain strong correlations at elevated temperatures. At low temperatures, we observe clear dispersive singlet-triplet excitations arising from the dimers formed along the crystalline -axis. The excitation gap is of 18 meV and the bandwidth is about half of the gap. The band top energy has a weak modulation along the [100] direction, indicative of a small interchain coupling. The gap increases while the bandwidth decreases with increasing temperature, leading to a strong reduction in the available phase space for the triplons. As a result, the Lorentzian-type energy broadening becomes highly asymmetric as the temperature is raised. These results are associated with a strongly correlated state resulting from hard-core constraint and quasiparticle interactions. We consider these results to be not only evidence for strong correlations at finite temperatures in NaCuTeO, but also for the universality of the strongly correlated state in a broad range of quantum magnetic systems.

Energy resolution and neutron flux of the 4SEASONS spectrometer revisited

梶本 亮一; 中村 充孝; 飯田 一樹*; 蒲沢 和也*; 池内 和彦*; 稲村 泰弘; 石角 元志*

Journal of Neutron Research, 22(2-3), p.99 - 107, 2020/10

https://doi.org/10.3233/JNR-200146

The elastic energy resolution, integrated intensity, and peak intensity of the direct-geometry neutron chopper spectrometer 4SEASONS at Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) were re-investigated. This was done with respect to the incident energy and the rotation speed of the Fermi chopper using incoherent scattering of vanadium and simple analytical formulas. The model calculations reproduced the observed values satisfactorily. The present work should be useful for estimating in instrument performance in experiments.

Horizontal line nodes in SrRuO proved by spin resonance

飯田 一樹*; 古府 麻衣子; 鈴木 雄大*; 村井 直樹; 河村 聖子; 梶本 亮一; 稲村 泰弘; 石角 元志*; 長谷川 舜介*; 益田 隆嗣*; et al.

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 89(5), p.053702_1 - 053702_5, 2020/05

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.89.053702

We investigated the low-energy incommensurate (IC) magnetic fluctuations in SrRuO by the high-resolution inelastic neutron scattering measurements and random phase approximation (RPA) calculations. We observed a spin resonance with energy of meV centered at a characteristic wavevector . The resonance energy corresponds well to the superconducting gap 2 = 0.56 meV estimated by the tunneling spectroscopy. The spin resonance shows the modulation with a maximum at around . The modulated intensity of the spin resonance and our RPA calculations indicate that the superconducting gaps regarding the quasi-one-dimensional and sheets at the Fermi surfaces have the horizontal line nodes. These results may set a strong constraint on the pairing symmetry of SrRuO. We also discuss the implications on possible superconducting order parameters.

Quantum magnetisms in uniform triangular lattices LiMoO ( = In, Sc)

飯田 一樹*; 吉田 紘行*; 岡部 博孝*; 片山 尚幸*; 石井 裕人*; 幸田 章宏*; 稲村 泰弘; 村井 直樹; 石角 元志*; 門野 良典*; et al.

Scientific Reports (Internet), 9(1), p.1826_1 - 1826_9, 2019/02

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-36123-7

Molecular based spin-1/2 triangular lattice systems have attracted research interest. LiMoO ( = In or Sc) is such a compound where spin-1/2 MoO clusters in place of Mo ions form the uniform triangular lattice. Here, we report exotic magnetisms in LiInMoO and LiScMoO investigated by muon spin rotation (SR) and inelastic neutron scattering (INS) spectroscopies. LiInMoO exhibits spin wave excitation which is quantitatively described by the nearest neighbor anisotropic Heisenberg model based on the 120 spin structure. In contrast, LiScMoO undergoes short-range magnetic order below 4 K with quantum-spin-liquid-like magnetic fluctuations down to the base temperature. Origin of the different ground states is discussed in terms of anisotropies of crystal structures and magnetic interactions.

Status report of the chopper spectrometer 4SEASONS

梶本 亮一; 中村 充孝; 稲村 泰弘; 蒲沢 和也*; 池内 和彦*; 飯田 一樹*; 石角 元志*; 村井 直樹; 吉良 弘*; 中谷 健; et al.

Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 1021(1), p.012030_1 - 012030_6, 2018/06

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1021/1/012030

4SEASONS is a medium-resolution thermal neutron chopper spectrometer in the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility (MLF) at J-PARC. Although 4SEASONS is routinely used for many experiments by internal and external users, upgrading and maintenance work is still underway. This paper reviews the recent improvements of the instrument.

Observation of magnetoelastic effects in a quasi-one-dimensional spiral magnet

Wang, C.*; Daiwei, Y.*; Liu, X.*; Chen, R.*; Du, X.*; Hu, B.*; Wang, L.*; 飯田 一樹*; 蒲沢 和也*; 脇本 秀一; et al.

Physical Review B, 96(8), p.085111_1 - 085111_5, 2017/08

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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.96.085111

This paper presents a systematic study of spin and lattice dynamics in the quasi-one-dimensional spiral magnet CuBr, using Raman scattering in conjunction with infrared and neutron spectroscopy. Along with the development of spin correlations upon cooling, we observe a rich set of broad Raman bands at energies that correspond to phonon-dispersion energies near the one-dimensional magnetic wave vector. The low-energy bands further exhibit a distinct intensity maximum at the spiral magnetic ordering temperature.

Time-of-flight elastic and inelastic neutron scattering studies on the localized 4d electron layered perovskite LaMoO

飯田 一樹*; 梶本 亮一; 水野 雄介*; 蒲沢 和也*; 稲村 泰弘; 星川 晃範*; 吉田 幸彦*; 松川 健*; 石垣 徹*; 河村 幸彦*; et al.

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 86(6), p.064803_1 - 064803_6, 2017/06

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.86.064803

The magnetic structure and spin wave excitations in the quasi-square-lattice layered perovskite compound LaMoO were studied by a combination of neutron diffraction and inelastic neutron scattering techniques using polycrystalline sample. Neutron powder diffraction refinement revealed that the magnetic structure is ferrimagnetic in the plane with antiferromagnetic stacking along the -axis. The inelastic neutron scattering results display strong easy-axis magnetic anisotropy along the -axis due to the spin-orbit interaction in Mo ions. The model Hamiltonian consisting of in-plane anisotropic exchange interactions, the interlayer exchange interaction, and easy-axis single-ion anisotropy can explain our inelastic neutron scattering data well. Strong Ising-like anisotropy and weak interlayer coupling compared with the intralayer exchange interaction can explain both the high-temperature magnetoresistance and long-time magnetization decay recently observed in LaMoO.

Recent progress in the chopper spectrometer 4SEASONS at J-PARC

梶本 亮一; 中村 充孝; 稲村 泰弘; 蒲沢 和也*; 池内 和彦*; 飯田 一樹*; 石角 元志*; 中島 健次; 河村 聖子; 中谷 健; et al.

JAEA-Conf 2015-002, p.319 - 329, 2016/02

https://doi.org/10.11484/jaea-conf-2015-002

4SEASONS () is one of the three chopper spectrometers operating in MLF at J-PARC, and covers thermal neutron region ( - meV) with relaxed resolution and high flux. The repetition rate multiplication by the Fermi chopper on this short length (18 m between the source and the sample) spectrometer enables wide-band multiple-incident-energy (multi-) measurements, which proved to be useful in observing hierarchical structures in excitations over a large energy scale. On the other hand, the upgrading work of the spectrometer has been continued since the first inelastic scattering experiment in 2009. For examples, we took several measures to suppress background, installed new detectors recently, and are developing a new Fermi chopper now. In the presentation, we show examples of scientific outputs from the spectrometer which benefit from the multi- measurements, and recent or planned upgrades of the instrument.

Oscillating radial collimators for the chopper spectrometers at MLF in J-PARC

中村 充孝; 川北 至信; 神原 理; 青山 和弘; 梶本 亮一; 中島 健次; 河村 聖子; 池内 和彦*; 菊地 龍弥; 稲村 泰弘; et al.

JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 8, p.036011_1 - 036011_6, 2015/09

強磁場や高温といった試料環境下での非弾性中性子散乱実験のニーズが近年高まってきているが、これらの試料環境機器に起因する不要な散乱が微弱な非弾性シグナルの検知に悪影響を及ぼすという問題があった。我々はこの問題点を克服するため、J-PARC物質・生命科学実験施設内のチョッパー分光器用揺動式ラジアルコリメータの開発を進めた。本研究ではBL01四季及びBL14アマテラス用にそれぞれ新規開発した揺動式ラジアルコリメータの特性について報告する。