Transverse asymmetry of individual rays in the La()La reaction

奥泉 舞桜*; Auton, C. J.*; 遠藤 駿典; 藤岡 宏之*; 広田 克也*; 猪野 隆*; 石崎 貢平*; 木村 敦; 北口 雅暁*; 古賀 淳*; et al.

Physical Review C, 111(3), p.034611_1 - 034611_6, 2025/03

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.111.034611

The observed enhancement of Parity Violation in the vicinity of p-wave compound nuclear resonances for a variety of medium-heavy nuclei can be understood using the sp-mixing model. The sp-mixing model predicts several neutron energy-dependent angular correlations between the spin and momentum of neutron and -ray emitted from (n,) reactions. In this work, the correlation term in the La(,)La reaction was measured precisely and a significant transverse asymmetry was found in the transition to the excited states of La.

再処理施設用蒸気配管伸縮継手損傷の原因と対策

西野 将平; 西田 哲郎; 川崎 一男; 本橋 昌博; 神原 貴志*; 鈴木 高一*; 木下 真登*

日本保全学会第20回学術講演会要旨集, p.14 - 21, 2024/08

核燃料サイクル工学研究所内の各施設においてプロセス用や空調用として使用している蒸気は、研究所内の中央運転管理室に設置された4基の水管ボイラで製造され、地下の共同溝を介して各施設に供給されている。各施設への蒸気供給配管は3系統(A系、B系、C系)あり、このうち2系統(A系、B系)が再処理施設用となっている。令和4年11月4日、11月25日、再処理施設用の蒸気配管のうちB系に設置された伸縮継手からの蒸気漏えい事象が発生した。本報告では、事象発生の原因と対策について報告する。

High sensitivity of a future search for effects of -odd/-odd interactions on the 0.75 eV -wave resonance in + forward transmission determined using a pulsed neutron beam

中部 倫太郎*; Auton, C. J.*; 遠藤 駿典; 藤岡 宏之*; Gudkov, V.*; 広田 克也*; 井出 郁央*; 猪野 隆*; 石角 元志*; 神原 理*; et al.

Physical Review C, 109(4), p.L041602_1 - L041602_4, 2024/04

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.109.L041602

Neutron transmission experiments can offer a new type of highly sensitive search for time-reversal invariance violating (TRIV) effects in nucleon-nucleon interactions via the same enhancement mechanism observed for large parity violating (PV) effects in neutron-induced compound nuclear processes. In these compound processes, the TRIV cross-section is given as the product of the PV cross-section, a spin-factor , and a ratio of TRIV and PV matrix elements. We determined to be 0.59 0.05 for La+n using both (n, ) spectroscopy and (+) transmission. This result quantifies for the first time the high sensitivity of the La 0.75 eV -wave resonance in a future search for -odd/-odd interactions in (+) forward transmission.

Residual stress relaxation by bending fatigue in induction-hardened gear studied by neutron Bragg edge transmission imaging and X-ray diffraction

Su, Y. H.; 及川 健一; 篠原 武尚; 甲斐 哲也; 堀野 孝*; 井戸原 修*; 三阪 佳孝*; 友田 陽*

International Journal of Fatigue, 174, p.107729_1 - 107729_12, 2023/09

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2023.107729

A novel procedure, double induction quenching (DIQ), effective for improving the fatigue strength of gear products, has been used for producing gears with steep gradients of compressive residual stress generated in the tooth surface. We performed a Bragg edge imaging experiment at a pulsed neutron source to determine the spatial distribution of the {110} lattice spacing (d) and the broadening of the {110} Bragg edge (w) on the DIQ gear product after tooth-bending fatigue tests to which different loading cycles were applied. No significant difference occurred in the d and the wat Hofer 's critical section of the teeth with different loading conditions within the accuracy of data analysis. However, we detected a decrease in the w and changes in the residual lattice strain distribution in the axial direction along the tooth root directions at the opposite side of Hofer 's critical section for both teeth after 310 and 810 cycles, relieving the compressive residual stresses during the fatigue process. The residual stress close to the gear tooth surface determined by X-ray diffraction using sequential polishing showed a slight relaxation and redistribution from the tensile side in the hoop direction, complementary to the neutron Bragg edge imaging.

Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors

大島 宏之; 森下 正樹*; 相澤 康介; 安藤 勝訓; 芦田 貴志; 近澤 佳隆; 堂田 哲広; 江沼 康弘; 江連 俊樹; 深野 義隆; et al.

Sodium-cooled Fast Reactors; JSME Series in Thermal and Nuclear Power Generation, Vol.3, 631 Pages, 2022/07

https://shop.elsevier.com/books/sodium-cooled-fast-reactors/morishita/978-0-12-824076-2

ナトリウム冷却高速炉(SFR: Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor)の歴史や、利点、課題を踏まえた安全性、設計、運用、メンテナンスなどについて解説する。AIを利用した設計手法など、SFRの実用化に向けた設計や研究開発についても述べる。

Association of hydrothermal plagioclase alteration with micropores in a granite; Petrographic indicators to evaluate the extent of hydrothermal alteration

湯口 貴史*; 五十公野 裕也*; 笹尾 英嗣

Journal of Mineralogical and Petrological Sciences (Internet), 117(1), p.220415_1 - 220415_12, 2022/00

https://doi.org/10.2465/jmps.220415

本研究では、土岐花崗岩を対象に主要構成鉱物である斜長石の変質の程度を定量的に評価する新しい手法として、記載岩石学的斜長石変質指標の利用を提示した。斜長石中の変質の指標と微小空隙の広がりは反射電子像(BSE image)の解析で取得した。変質した斜長石中の微小空隙の体積は、その粒子中の微小空隙の広がりで特徴づけられる。このことから、斜長石変質指標は斜長石全体に対する変質部の面積の割合として求められる。われわれの先行研究では、土岐花崗岩中の変質した黒雲母中の緑泥石と微小空隙の広がりを指標として用いてきた。本研究ではこの先行研究と同一の試料を用いており、斜長石の変質指標と黒雲母の緑泥石化指標には正の相関が認められた。このことは、2つの指標を独立して用いることが可能であることを示す。また、この結果から、土岐花崗岩では斜長石の変質は黒雲母の緑泥石化に関連していることが明らかになった。

Genesis and development processes of fractures in granite; Petrographic indicators of hydrothermal alteration

湯口 貴史*; 五十公野 裕也*; 笹尾 英嗣

PLOS ONE (Internet), 16(5), p.e0251198_1 - e0251198_17, 2021/05

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251198

本研究は、割れ目の発生と発達の過程を明らかにする目的で、結晶質岩中のラージスケール割れ目と、鉱物の変質と微小空隙の関係を明らかにした。鉱物の変質の程度を定量的に評価するため、黒雲母の緑泥石化に着目し、変質領域と非変質領域の面積比から変質パラメータを定義した。その結果、ラージスケール割れ目の発達する岩石領域では変質パラメータと微小空隙がともに大きくなる傾向を見出した。これらの結果から、変質パラメータが現在と将来の割れ目分布の評価に有効となることを明らかにした。

Commissioning of Versatile Compact Neutron Diffractometer (VCND) at the B-3 beam port of Kyoto University Research Reactor (KUR)

森 一広*; 奥村 良*; 吉野 泰史*; 金山 雅哉*; 佐藤 節夫*; 大場 洋次郎; 岩瀬 謙二*; 平賀 晴弘*; 日野 正裕*; 佐野 忠史*; et al.

JPS Conference Proceedings (Internet), 33, p.011093_1 - 011093_6, 2021/03

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSCP.33.011093

京都大学研究炉(KUR)のB-3ビームポートは、過去には単結晶回折計が設置されていたが、近年はユーザーが減少し、アクティビティが低下している状況にあった。そこで本研究グループでは、近年の中性子利用に関するニーズを再調査し、B-3ビームポートに新たに多目的小型中性子回折計(VCND)を構築した。VCNDは、1.0オングストロームの入射中性子波長を利用して6度から130度までの散乱角を測定でき、既に水素吸蔵合金の研究等への利用が開始されている。講演では、今後の改修計画等についても説明する。

Neutron Bragg-edge transmission imaging for microstructure and residual strain in induction hardened gears

Su, Y. H.; 及川 健一; 篠原 武尚; 甲斐 哲也; 堀野 孝*; 井戸原 修*; 三阪 佳孝*; 友田 陽*

Scientific Reports (Internet), 11, p.4155_1 - 4155_14, 2021/02

AA2020-0778.pdf:6.49MB

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-83555-9

A time-of-flight Bragg-edge neutron transmission imaging was used to investigate the microstructure and strain distributions in a gear hardened by a newly developed two-step induction-heating method: precursor (Sample 1) and final product (Sample 2). The edge- position and edge-broadening were determined and mapped with high spatial resolution, which enabled us to confirm the two-dimensional distributions of the microstructure and residual strain. A deep hardened layer was made for Sample 1 in which martensite was formed on the entire teeth and the outer peripheral portion of the gear body. Sample 2 was subjected to double induction-hardening, where a tempered martensite was formed as the thermal refined microstructure between a fine-grained martensite at the tooth surface and a ferrite-pearlite microstructure at the core. The relationship between edge-broadening and the Vickers hardness described by a linear equation was employed to derive the elastic residual strain. The residual strain map for Sample 2 revealed that a steep compressive strain was introduced into the fine-grained martensite at the tooth surface by the super rapid induction- heating and quenching process. The reversal of tension was speculated to occur below 2 mm from the tooth tip, and the strain was almost zero in the core region.

Development and application of a He neutron spin filter at J-PARC

奥平 琢也; 奥 隆之; 猪野 隆*; 林田 洋寿*; 吉良 弘*; 酒井 健二; 廣井 孝介; 高橋 慎吾*; 相澤 一也; 遠藤 仁*; et al.

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 977, p.164301_1 - 164301_8, 2020/10

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2020.164301

We are developing a neutron polarizer with polarized He gas, referred to as a He spin filter, based on the Spin Exchange Optical Pumping (SEOP) for polarized neutron scattering experiments at Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility (MLF) of Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). A He gas-filling station was constructed at J-PARC, and several He cells with long spin relaxation times have been fabricated using the gas-filling station. A laboratory has been prepared in the MLF beam hall for polarizing He cells, and compact pumping systems with laser powers of 30 W and 110 W, which can be installed onto a neutron beamline, have been developed. A He polarization of 85% was achieved at a neutron beamline by using the pumping system with the 110 W laser. Recently, the first user experiment utilizing the He spin filter was conducted, and there have been several more since then. The development and utilization of He spin filters at MLF of J-PARC are reported.