Landscape signature of seismogenic faults in the off and onshore domains of the Noto Peninsula in Japan's back-arc

Malatesta, L. C.*; 末岡 茂; Wei, N.-M.*; Gailleton, B.*; 塚本 すみ子*; 石村 大輔*; 高橋 直也*; 西村 卓也*; 片岡 香子*; 小松 哲也; et al.

Geophysical Research Letters, 52(24), p.e2025GL116602_1 - e2025GL116602_10, 2025/12

https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL116602

The eastern margin of the Sea of Japan is a zone of great seismic and tsunami hazard due to multiple offshore and nearshore reverse faults as shown by the 2024 Mw7.5 Noto Peninsula Earthquake. Here we compare coseismic deformation of the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake with 4,767 individual marine terraces attributed to 16 successive sea-level stages over the last Myr. This reveals that the earthquake faults started slipping between 326 and 238 ka. The emerged landscape is still adjusting to it while nearshore underwater scarps mark the active faults. Applied to nearby Sado Island, these observations reveal the likely location of an active fault that drives its fast deformation. Active faults defining the edge of uplifting land are likely found in the near shore domain, drowned by the current sea-level high stand.

Sodium diffusion in hard carbon studied by small- and wide-angle neutron scattering and muon spin relaxation

大石 一城*; 五十嵐 大輔*; 多々良 涼一*; 河村 幸彦*; 廣井 孝介; 鈴木 淳市*; 梅垣 いづみ*; 西村 昇一郎*; 幸田 章宏*; 駒場 慎一*; et al.

Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 2462, p.012048_1 - 012048_5, 2023/03

https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2462/1/012048

Hard carbon is the most common anode material for Na-ion battery. The structure of the hard carbon and the dynamics of Na-ion in hard carbon were studied with small- and wide- angle neutron scattering and muon spin relaxation technique. The neutron scattering revealed the increase of interlayer distance between graphenes and decrease of the size of nanopores with increasing sodium intercalation in hard carbon. The muon spin relaxation revealed that a systematic increase in the field fluctuation rate with increasing temperature evidenced a thermally activated sodium diffusion. Assuming the two-dimensional diffusion of Na-ion in the graphene layers, the self-diffusion coefficient of Na-ion was estimated to be 2.610 cm/s at 310 K, with a thermal activation energy of 39(7) meV.

JMTR・UCL系統冷却塔の健全性調査

大戸 勤; 浅野 典一; 川俣 貴則; 箭内 智博; 西村 嵐; 荒木 大輔; 大塚 薫; 高部 湧吾; 大塚 紀彰; 小嶋 慶大; et al.

JAEA-Review 2020-018, 66 Pages, 2020/11

JAEA-Review-2020-018.pdf:8.87MB

令和元年9月9日の台風15号の強風により、JMTR(材料試験炉)にある二次冷却系統冷却塔の倒壊事象が発生した。その倒壊に至った原因調査及び原因分析を行い、4つの原因が重なって起こったことが特定された。これを受け、JMTR内にある二次冷却系統冷却塔と同時期に設置された木造の冷却塔であるUCL(Utility Cooling Loop)系統冷却塔の健全性調査を行った。健全性調査項目は、UCL系統冷却塔の運転状態の把握、UCL冷却系統の構造材料の劣化状態、点検項目及び点検状況、過去の気象データの確認である。この調査結果から、当該設備を安全に維持・管理するため、点検項目の改善、UCL系統冷却塔の構造材料である木材の交換・補修計画及び今後のUCL系統冷却塔の使用計画を策定するとともに、既存UCL系統冷却塔に代わる新規冷却塔の更新計画を策定した。本報告書はこれらの健全性調査の結果をまとめたものである。

Enhancement of element production by incomplete fusion reaction with weakly bound deuteron

Wang, H.*; 大津 秀暁*; 千賀 信幸*; 川瀬 頌一郎*; 武内 聡*; 炭竃 聡之*; 小山 俊平*; 櫻井 博儀*; 渡辺 幸信*; 中山 梓介; et al.

Communications Physics (Internet), 2(1), p.78_1 - 78_6, 2019/07

https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-019-0165-1

陽子(あるいは中性子)過剰核の効率的な生成経路を探索することは、原子核反応研究の主な動機のひとつである。本研究では、Pdに対する核子当たり50MeVの陽子および重陽子入射による残留核生成断面積を逆運動学法によって測定した。その結果、重陽子入射ではAgやPd同位体の生成断面積が大きくなることを実験的に示した。また、理論計算による解析から、この生成断面積の増大は重陽子の不完全融合反応に起因することを示した。これらの結果は、陽子過剰核の生成において重陽子のような弱束縛核の利用が有効であることを示すものである。

New precise measurements of muonium hyperfine structure at J-PARC MUSE

Strasser, P.*; 阿部 充志*; 青木 正治*; Choi, S.*; 深尾 祥紀*; 東 芳隆*; 樋口 嵩*; 飯沼 裕美*; 池戸 豊*; 石田 勝彦*; et al.

EPJ Web of Conferences, 198, p.00003_1 - 00003_8, 2019/01

https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201919800003

High precision measurements of the ground state hyperfine structure (HFS) of muonium is a stringent tool for testing bound-state quantum electrodynamics (QED) theory, determining fundamental constants of the muon magnetic moment and mass, and searches for new physics. Muonium is the most suitable system to test QED because both theoretical and experimental values can be precisely determined. Previous measurements were performed decades ago at LAMPF with uncertainties mostly dominated by statistical errors. At the J-PARC Muon Science Facility (MUSE), the MuSEUM collaboration is planning complementary measurements of muonium HFS both at zero and high magnetic field. The new high-intensity muon beam that will soon be available at H-Line will provide an opportunity to improve the precision of these measurements by one order of magnitude. An overview of the different aspects of these new muonium HFS measurements, the current status of the preparation for high-field measurements, and the latest results at zero field are presented.

Ecological and genomic profiling of anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea in a deep granitic environment

伊能 康平*; Hernsdorf, A. W.*; 今野 祐多*; 幸塚 麻里子*; 柳川 克則*; 加藤 信吾*; 砂村 道成*; 広田 秋成*; 東郷 洋子*; 伊藤 一誠*; et al.

ISME Journal, 12(1), p.31 - 47, 2018/01

https://doi.org/10.1038/ismej.2017.140

岐阜県瑞浪市の超深地層研究所において、深度300メートルの地下水を地下坑道から採取し、地下微生物の生態系を調査した。その結果、花崗岩深部でマグマ由来のメタンに依存した微生物生態系が存在することを明らかにした。

Observation of a -decaying millisecond isomeric state in Cd

Jungclaus, A.*; Grawe, H.*; 西村 俊二*; Doornenbal, P.*; Lorusso, G.*; Simpson, G. S.*; Sderstrm, P.-A.*; 炭竃 聡之*; Taprogge, J.*; Xu, Z. Y.*; et al.

Physics Letters B, 772, p.483 - 488, 2017/09

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2017.07.006

A new high-spin isomer in the neutron-rich nucleus Cd was populated in the projectile fission of a U beam at the Radioactive Isotope Beam Factory at RIKEN. A half-life of T = 6.3(8) ms was measured for the new state which was tentatively assigned a spin/parity of (15). The isomeric state decays via the emission of a 309-keV ray with multipolarity. The experimental results are compared to shell model calculations performed using state-of-the-art realistic effective interactions and to the neighbouring nucleus Cd. The comparison with calculations shows that adjustments of the pairing and multipole parts of the effective interaction derived from the CD-Bonn nucleon-nucleon potential are required in order to describe the properties of nuclei in the region around Sn.

New muonium HFS measurements at J-PARC/MUSE

Strasser, P.*; 青木 正治*; 深尾 祥紀*; 東 芳隆*; 樋口 嵩*; 飯沼 裕美*; 池戸 豊*; 石田 勝彦*; 伊藤 孝; 岩崎 雅彦*; et al.

Hyperfine Interactions, 237(1), p.124_1 - 124_9, 2016/12

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10751-016-1331-4

At the Muon Science Facility (MUSE) of J-PARC (Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex), the MuSEUM collaboration is planning new measurements of the ground state hyperfine structure (HFS) of muonium both at zero field and at high magnetic field. The previous measurements were performed both at LAMPF (Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility) with experimental uncertainties mostly dominated by statistical errors. The new high intensity muon beam that will soon be available at MUSE H-Line will provide an opportunity to improve the precision of these measurements by one order of magnitude. An overview of the different aspects of these new muonium HFS measurements, the current status of the preparation, and the results of a first commissioning test experiment at zero field are presented.

First observation of rays emitted from excited states south-east of Sn; The g multiplet of In

Jungclaus, A.*; Gargano, A.*; Grawe, H.*; Taprogge, J.*; 西村 俊二*; Doornenbal, P.*; Lorusso, G.*; Shimizu, Y.*; Simpson, G. S.*; Sderstrm, P.-A.*; et al.

Physical Review C, 93(4), p.041301_1 - 041301_6, 2016/04

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.93.041301

For the first time, the decay of excited states in a nucleus situated "south-east" of Sn have been observed, in a region where experimental information is limited to ground-state properties. Six rays from Cd, produced in the fragmentation of a U beam at RIBF at RIKEN. The rays were studied using the EURICA array of Ge detectors. The new experimental information is compared to results from realistic shell-model calculations, which are the first in this region far from stability. Comparison with calculations suggests that at least four out of six new transitions can be attributed to the particle-hole configuration of one neutron in the and one proton hole in the orbits, respectively. This work constitutes an important first step towards the exploration of nuclear structure in this unknown region of the nuclear chart.

-decay half-lives of 110 neutron-rich nuclei across the =82 shell gap; Implications for the mechanism and universality of the astrophysical process

Lorusso, G.*; 西村 俊二*; Xu, Z. Y.*; Jungclaus, A.*; Shimizu, Y.*; Simpson, G. S.*; Sderstrm, P.-A.*; Watanabe, H.*; Browne, F.*; Doornenbal, P.*; et al.

Physical Review Letters, 114(19), p.192501_1 - 192501_7, 2015/05

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.192501

The -decay half-lives of 110 neutron-rich isotopes of the elements from Rb to Sn were measured at the RIBF Facility at RIKEN, Japan. The new data demonstrate the persistence of shell structure far from stability and have direct implications for the -process calculations. In particular, the new half-lives have a global impact on the calculated -process elemental abundances, and alleviate the underproduction of isotopes just above and below the A=130 peak, which in the past required the introduction of shell structure modifications. Reaction-network calculations based on the new data reinforce the notion that the r-process abundance pattern may result from the freeze-out of a (n,)(,n) equilibrium.