Parity assignment for low-lying dipole states in Ni

Shizuma, Toshiyuki*; Omer, M.; Hayakawa, Takehito*; Minato, Futoshi*; Matsuba, Shunya*; Miyamoto, Shuji*; Shimizu, Noritaka*; Utsuno, Yutaka

Physical Review C, 109(1), p.014302_1 - 014302_7, 2024/01

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.109.014302

Nuclear many-body effects on particle emission following muon capture on Si and Ca

Minato, Futoshi; Naito, Tomoya*; Iwamoto, Osamu

Physical Review C, 107(5), p.054314_1 - 054314_10, 2023/05

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.107.054314

The Optical potential for neutron-nucleus scattering derived by Bayesian optimization

Watanabe, Shoto*; Minato, Futoshi; Kimura, Masaaki*; Iwamoto, Nobuyuki

JAEA-Conf 2022-001, p.103 - 108, 2022/11

https://doi.org/10.11484/jaea-conf-2022-001

Reduction and resource recycling of high-level liquid radioactive waste through nuclear transmutation, 4; ImPACT/LLFP-2018: A New nuclear data library for a challenge on transmutation of long-lived fission products

Kunieda, Satoshi; Furutachi, Naoya*; Minato, Futoshi; Iwamoto, Nobuyuki; Iwamoto, Osamu

NEA/NSC/R(2020)4 (Internet), p.329 - 331, 2022/10

A new nuclear data library, ImPACT/LLFP-2018, is developed for an innovative study on the transmutation of long-lived fission products. In this work, we estimated cross-sections based on a nuclear model code CCONE, reflecting new knowledge on the nuclear structure theory and cross-section measurement. For instance, we used microscopic nuclear model to improve a phenomenological level density model. The pre-equilibrium model parameters are also optimized based on new experimental data of RIKEN/RIBF. Present library stores neutron and proton-induced cross-sections up to 200 MeV for 160 stable/unstable nuclei covering the long-lived fission products such as Se, Zr, Pd and Cs. Through a comparison with available experimental data on the stable isotopes, it is found that the present data gives predictions of cross-sections better than those from JENDL-4.0/HE, TENDL-2017 and the INCL model.

Estimated isotopic compositions of Yb in enriched Yb for producing Lu with high radionuclide purity by Yb()Lu

Nagai, Yasuki*; Kawabata, Masako*; Hashimoto, Shintaro; Tsukada, Kazuaki; Hashimoto, Kazuyuki*; Motoishi, Shoji*; Saeki, Hideya*; Motomura, Arata*; Minato, Futoshi; Ito, Masatoshi*

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 91(4), p.044201_1 - 044201_10, 2022/04

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.91.044201

Recently, Lu is considered as one of the most important medical RIs for treating neuroendocrine tumors. A plan to produce Lu with high purity by using enriched Yb samples with irradiation of deuteron beams in accelerators has been discussed. However, since the other Yb isotopes contained in the Yb sample interacts with deuterons, Lu isotopes other than Lu are produced as impurities. Since the purity of Lu is important for medical use, a method to evaluate the impurity of Lu has been required. In this study, we proposed a new method to estimate production yields of each Lu isotopes in Yb samples with arbitrary isotopic compositions by using excitation functions of Yb()Lu reactions and the particle transport calculation code PHITS. The method plays an important role in discussing the isotopic composition of enriched samples to produce high-purity Lu using accelerators.

Development of a reference database for beta-delayed neutron emission

Dimitriou, P.*; Dillmann, I.*; Singh, B.*; Piksaikin, V.*; Rykaczewski, K. P.*; Tain, J. L.*; Algora, A.*; Banerjee, K.*; Borzov, I. N.*; Cano-Ott, D.*; et al.

Nuclear Data Sheets, 173, p.144 - 238, 2021/03

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nds.2021.04.006

-delayed neutron emission has been of interest since the discovery of nuclear fission. In nuclear power reactors, delayed-neutron data play a crucial role in reactor kinetics calculations and safe operation. -delayed neutron data also have a significant impact in the field of nuclear structure and astrophysics especially as nuclei farther away from stability are explored at the new generation of radioactive beam facilities. Several compilations of -decay half-lives and delayed-neutron emission probabilities are available, however, complete documentation of measurements and evaluation procedures is often missing for these properties. Efforts to address this gap in nuclear data and create an updated compilation and evaluation of -delayed neutron properties were undertaken under the auspices of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which formed a Coordinated Research Project (CRP) on "Development of a Reference Database of Beta-delayed Neutron Emission Data". In this paper we summarize the work that was performed and present the results of the CRP.

Low-lying electric and magnetic dipole strengths in Pb

Shizuma, Toshiyuki*; Minato, Futoshi; Omer, M.*; Hayakawa, Takehito*; Ogaki, Hideaki*; Miyamoto, Shuji*

Physical Review C, 103(2), p.024309_1 - 024309_8, 2021/02

AA2020-0675.pdf:0.29MB

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.103.024309

Low-lying dipole transitions in Pb were measured via nuclear photon scattering using a quasi-monochromatic, linearly polarized photon beam. The electric () and magnetic () dipole strengths were extracted for excitation energies up to 6.8 MeV. The present (,) results, combined with (,) data from the literature, were used to investigate the and photoabsorption cross sections near the neutron separation energy by comparison with predictions of the particle-vibration coupling on top of the quasi-particle random phase approximation (PVC+QRPA).

Atomic Energy Society of Japan 2020 Annual Meeting, joint session of "Sigma Advisory Committee", "Subcommittee on Nuclear Data" and "Subcommittee on Reactor Physics"; 20th Anniversary Symposium of Nuclear Data Subcommittee, 4; Towards the future; Explore science from nuclear data

Minato, Futoshi

Kaku Deta Nyusu (Internet), (127), p.33 - 37, 2020/10

http://www.aesj.or.jp/~ndd/ndnews/pdf127/No127-05.pdf

no abstracts in English

Toward next JENDL Fission Yield Data and Decay Data

Minato, Futoshi

EPJ Web of Conferences, 242, p.05004_1 - 05004_6, 2020/09

https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024205004

We are now developing new decay data using microscopic theoretical models and experimental data newly measured since JENDL/DDF-2015. It includes not only new evaluations of standard decay data information such as half-lives, delayed neutron branching ratios, etc but also theoretically calculated delayed neutron spectra that have not been included in the series of JENDL decay data. We present the detail of the decay data and several results of summation calculation using the decay data and post JENDL/FPY-2011 data produced by TIT group. We also introduce recent theoretical studies for the evaluation of incident neutron energy dependence of fission product yields.

Anomalous radioisotope production for ZnO using polyethylene by accelerator neutrons

Tsukada, Kazuaki; Nagai, Yasuki*; Hashimoto, Shintaro; Minato, Futoshi; Kawabata, Masako*; Hatsukawa, Yuichi*; Hashimoto, Kazuyuki*; Watanabe, Satoshi*; Saeki, Hideya*; Motoishi, Shoji*

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 89(3), p.034201_1 - 034201_7, 2020/03

https://doi.org/10.7566/JPSJ.89.034201

We found anomalously large yields of Ga, Ga, Zn and Cu by neutron irradiation on a ZnO sample in a polyethylene shield. Neutron beams are generated from the Be() reaction for 50 MeV deuterons. The yields obtained were more than 20 times larger than those in the unshielded sample. On the other hand, the yields of Ga, Ga, Zn and Cu from a metallic Zn sample and the yields of Cu, Ni and Zn from the ZnO and Zn samples were almost insensitive to the shield conditions. This finding would provide us a unique capability of accelerator neutrons to simultaneously produce a large amount of several radioisotopes, including proton induced reaction products, by using a single sample. The experimental data were compared with the yields estimated by using the Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System and the result was discussed.