Rapid recharge and descent of thundercloud core producing gamma-ray glow

和田 有希*; Wu, T.*; 鴨川 仁*; Wang, D.*; 岡田 豪*; 南斗 秀仁*; 澤野 達也*; 久保 守*; 米徳 大輔*; Diniz, G. Z.*; et al.

Journal of Geophysical Research; Atmospheres, 130(24), p.e2025JD043927_1 - e2025JD043927_16, 2025/12

https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JD043927

We report two gamma-ray glows observed on December 22, 2023, during a winter thunderstorm in Japan, using an array of four radiation detectors. The first glow, detected by one sensor, was quenched by a lightning discharge. The second glow appeared 2-3 minutes later and was tracked by three other detectors. Radar observations suggest both glows originated from the same thundercloud cell. However, the detection timing of the second glow was inconsistent with simple thundercloud movement, indicating temporal variations in intrinsic glow brightness. A three-dimensional lightning mapping observation suggests that a discharge activity depleted the electric field that generated the first glow, and that the electric field having produced the second glow has been rapidly recovered. In addition, the radar observations also detected a descent of the thundercloud core between the two glows, which may have developed an electrified region and the second glow enough to be observed by the detectors. Tracking gamma-ray glows is crucial for understanding electrified regions in thunderclouds and associated gamma-ray glows.

その場中性子回折を用いたSUS310Sステンレス鋼の水素添加による強さ・伸び向上メカニズムの解明

伊東 達矢; 小川 祐平*; Gong, W.; Mao, W.*; 川崎 卓郎; 岡田 和歩*; 柴田 曉伸*; Harjo, S.

波紋, 35(3), p.129 - 133, 2025/08

Recent studies have shown that the addition of hydrogen to SUS310S stainless steel (Fe-24Cr-19Ni, mass%) simultaneously enhances both strength and ductility, indicating a phenomenon contrary to the conventional understanding of hydrogen embrittlement. In this study, we investigated the underlying mechanism through neutron diffraction experiments during tensile deformation using TAKUMI at the MLF of J-PARC. The results revealed that solid-solution strengthening by hydrogen plays the most significant role in improving the mechanical properties. Solute hydrogen atoms distort the lattice to suppress dislocation motion, thereby increasing the strength. The raised stress in the hydrogen charged sample enables the onset of deformation twinning at a smaller strain compared to the non-hydrogen charged sample. Consequently, the twinning-induced plasticity effect contributes more significantly to work hardening and the improvement of uniform elongation due to the solid-solution strengthening by hydrogen. These findings suggest a new pathway for the effective utilization of hydrogen in austenitic steels.

Role of solute hydrogen on mechanical property enhancement in Fe-24Cr-19Ni austenitic steel; An neutron diffraction study

伊東 達矢; 小川 祐平*; Gong, W.; Mao, W.*; 川崎 卓郎; 岡田 和歩*; 柴田 曉伸*; Harjo, S.

Acta Materialia, 287, p.120767_1 - 120767_16, 2025/04

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2025.120767

Incorporating solute hydrogen into Fe-Cr-Ni-based austenitic stainless steels enhances both strength and ductility, providing a promising solution to hydrogen embrittlement by causing solid-solution strengthening and assisting deformation twinning. However, its impacts on the relevant lattice defects evolution (, dislocations, stacking faults, and twins) during deformation remains unclear. This study compared the tensile deformation behavior in an Fe-24Cr-19Ni (mass%) austenitic steel with 7600 atom ppm hydrogen-charged (H-charged) and without hydrogen-charged (non-charged) using neutron diffraction. Hydrogen effects on the lattice expansion, solid-solution strengthening, stacking fault probability, stacking fault energy, dislocation density, and strain/stress for twin evolution were quantitatively evaluated to link them with the macroscale mechanical properties. The H-charged sample showed improvements in yield stress, flow stress, and uniform elongation, consistent with earlier findings. However, solute hydrogen exhibited minimal influences on the evolution of dislocation and stacking fault. This fact contradicts the previous reports on hydrogen-enhanced dislocation and stacking fault evolutions, the latter of which can be responsible for the enhancement of twinning. The strain for twin evolution was smaller in the H-charged sample compared to the non-charged one. Nevertheless, when evaluated as the onset stress for twin evolution, there was minimal change between the two samples. These findings suggest that the increase in flow stress due to the solid-solution strengthening by hydrogen is a root cause of accelerated deformation twinning at a smaller strain, leading to an enhanced work-hardening rate and improved uniform elongation.

Dissociative adsorption of supersonic CHCl on Cu oxide Surfaces; CuO(111) and bulk CuO precursor "29"; Structure on Cu(111)

林田 紘輝*; 津田 泰孝; 村瀬 菜摘*; 山田 剛司*; 吉越 章隆; Dio, W. A.*; 岡田 美智雄*

Applied Surface Science, 669, p.160475_1 - 160475_6, 2024/10

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2024.160475

To examine the elementary steps of the Rochow-Mller process, we subjected copper oxides, viz., CuO(111) and the bulk CuO precursor "29" -structure on Cu(111), to supersonic molecular beams (SSMB) of CHCl. The SSMB energies range from 0.5-1.9 eV. We then employed X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) in conjunction with synchrotron radiation (SR) to determine the resulting adsorbed species present. We identified two reaction paths, viz., Reaction I and Reaction II, with one prevailing over the other depending on exposure conditions. Reaction I involves the dissociative adsorption of CHCl. In Reaction II, CHCl dissociates with Cl as the prevailing adsorbed species (higher than that of adsorbed carbonaceous species, as observed for Reaction I). For the incident energy and exposure conditions considered, we found Reaction II as the prevailing reaction path for CHCl reaction on both CuO(111) and the "29" -structure on Cu(111).

Benchmark analysis by Beremin model and GTN model in CAF Subcommittee

名越 康人*; 深堀 拓也*; 岡田 裕*; 高橋 昭如*; 下平 昌樹; 上田 貴志*; 小川 琢矢*; 八代醍 健志*; 高橋 由紀夫*; 大畑 充*

Transactions of the 27th International Conference on Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (SMiRT 27) (Internet), 9 Pages, 2024/03

日本溶接協会CAF小委員会では、塑性拘束効果を考慮した破壊評価手法ガイドラインの策定を目指している。この評価手法では、脆性破壊を評価するためのBereminモデルと延性亀裂成長を評価するためのGTNモデルを用いる。そこで、これらの評価モデルの適用性を検証するため、CAF小委員会の参加機関によるベンチマーク解析が行われた。ベンチマーク解析は、各機関が有する有限要素解析コードを用い、2種類の低合金鋼(A及びB)の破壊試験に対して実施されてきた。本発表では、低合金鋼Bに対する解析結果を報告する。Bereminモデルにおいて、一般的なワイブル形状母数( = 10, 20, 30)を用いた場合、各機関で計算されたワイブル応力が概ね一致することを確認した。また、Toughness Scaling Modelに基づいて、塑性拘束度が異なる2種類の試験片を用いてワイブル形状母数を算出した。算出されたワイブル形状母数は解析機関によりばらつきはあったものの、最終的に算出されるワイブル応力は一致することを確認した。GTNモデルに関して、評価に用いるパラメータを1T-C(T)試験片の室温での荷重-変位関係に基づいて最適化した。最適化されたパラメータを用いてGTNモデルに基づき評価されたJ-R曲線が各機関で一致することを確認した。

材料照射試験装置内の荷重制御装置の改良(受託研究)

岡田 祐次; 馬籠 博克; 松井 義典

JAEA-Technology 2022-014, 113 Pages, 2022/09

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JMTR(材料試験炉: Japan Materials Testing Reactor)では、2008年2013年の約5年をかけて材料照射試験装置を整備した。材料照射試験装置は、IASCC(照射誘起応力腐食割れ: Irradiation Assisted Stress Corrosion Cracking)評価研究に供するための装置である。この装置は主に炉内照射するキャプセルに軽水炉環境を模擬した高温高圧水を供給するための水環境調整装置や照射下においてキャプセル内で亀裂進展試験を行うための荷重制御装置等から構成されている。荷重制御装置は、コンパクトテンション(CT: Compact Tension)試験片に荷重負荷を与え、亀裂進展試験を行うための装置である。このCT試験片に荷重を負荷させる原理は、水環境調整装置を用いたキャプセル内の高温高圧水とその中に装荷される荷重負荷ユニットのベローズ内に供給するヘリウムボンベの荷重制御ガス圧力の圧力差でCT試験片に荷重をかけるものである。2013年にこの材料照射試験装置の調整運転を実施した。その際、ロードセル付荷重負荷ユニットを装填した試験容器を用いて、荷重制御装置の差圧と荷重の相関試験も実施した。この相関試験(最大負荷時差圧と最小負荷時差圧を往復する周期的な荷重負荷試験)において、荷重制御装置の配管抵抗性能による圧力変化速度の違いから、負荷時と除荷時の荷重変化速度が異なるという課題等が抽出され、この課題について2014年2015年にかけて改良を実施し、改良後の性能試験を実施して課題等が解決したことを確認した。本報告書では、材料照射試験装置の概要、2013年に実施した荷重測定試験で確認された課題等の抽出及び2014年2015年にかけて実施した課題解決のための荷重制御装置の改良並びに改良後の性能試験・操作手順についてまとめたものである。

Catalog of gamma-ray glows during four winter seasons in Japan

和田 有希*; 松本 崇弘*; 榎戸 輝揚*; 中澤 知洋*; 湯浅 孝行*; 古田 禄大*; 米徳 大輔*; 澤野 達哉*; 岡田 豪*; 南戸 秀仁*; et al.

Physical Review Research (Internet), 3(4), p.043117_1 - 043117_31, 2021/12

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.043117

In 2015 the Gamma-Ray Observation of Winter Thunderstorms (GROWTH) collaboration launched a mapping observation campaign for high-energy atmospheric phenomena related to thunderstorms and lightning discharges. This campaign has developed a detection network of gamma rays with up to 10 radiation monitors installed in Kanazawa and Komatsu cities, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, where low-charge-center winter thunderstorms frequently occur. During four winter seasons from October 2016 to April 2020, in total 70 gamma-ray glows, minute-lasting bursts of gamma rays originating from thunderclouds, were detected. Their average duration is 58.9 sec. Among the detected events, 77% were observed in nighttime. The gamma-ray glows can be classified into temporally-symmetric, temporally-asymmetric, and lightning-terminated types based on their count-rate histories. An averaged energy spectrum of the gamma-ray glows is well fitted with a power-law function with an exponential cutoff, whose photon index, cutoff energy, and flux are 0.613 0.009, 4.68 0.04 MeV, and (1.013 0.003) 10 erg cms (0.2-20.0 MeV), respectively. The present paper provides the first catalog of gamma-ray glows and their statistical analysis detected during winter thunderstorms in the Kanazawa and Komatsu areas.

Design for detecting recycling muon after muon-catalyzed fusion reaction in solid hydrogen isotope target

奥津 賢一*; 山下 琢磨*; 木野 康志*; 中島 良太*; 宮下 湖南*; 安田 和弘*; 岡田 信二*; 佐藤 元泰*; 岡 壽崇; 河村 成肇*; et al.

Fusion Engineering and Design, 170, p.112712_1 - 112712_4, 2021/09

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2021.112712

水素同位体を利用したミュオン触媒核融合(CF)では、核融合によって2.2sの寿命を持つミュオンが再放出され、それが次の標的と新たな核融合を引き起こす。我々は、水素・重水素混合固体から放出されたミュオンを収集して輸送する同軸輸送管を新たに開発し、輸送のための加速電圧などについて検討したので報告する。

Benchmark analysis by Beremin model and GTN model in CAF subcommittee

廣田 貴俊*; 名越 康人*; 北条 公伸*; 岡田 裕*; 高橋 昭如*; 勝山 仁哉; 上田 貴志*; 小川 琢矢*; 八代醍 健志*; 大畑 充*; et al.

Proceedings of ASME 2021 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference (PVP 2021) (Internet), 9 Pages, 2021/07

In order to establish a guideline for fracture evaluation by considering plastic constraint in the ductile-brittle transition temperature (DBTT) region, the CAF (Constraint-Based Assessment of Fracture in Ductile-Brittle Transition Temperature Region) subcommittee has been launched in 2018 in the Japan Welding Engineering Society. In the committee, fracture tests are conducted using C(T), SE(B), and 50mm-thick flat plate with a surface flaw subjected to bending load or tensile load to verify fracture evaluation methods. Since simulation results are easily affected by analysis conditions, benchmark analysis is essential for the potential users of the guideline. Therefore, benchmark analyses are executed on brittle and ductile damages by Beremin and Gurson-Tvergaard-Needleman (GTN) models implemented in the finite element (FE) codes. The benchmark analyses are carried out in four steps; Step 0 is to confirm the output of FE codes in each member with the same input data and the same FE model. Step 1 is to confirm the result of Weibull stress analysis for C(T) specimens tested at -125C. The Weibull parameter, m, was fixed in this step. At step 2, sensitivity analyses are conducted on Weibull stresses in different conditions. The outputs by the GTN model are also confirmed. At the final step, the fracture simulation will be run for flat plate specimens with less plastic constraint than the standard fracture toughness specimen. As the results of the benchmark analyses up to step 2, a significant difference is not observed in the Weibull stress computed by committee members with the same input data and FE model and it is confirmed that the effects of element type, nonlinear deformation theory employed in FE analysis. For the calculation of the Weibull parameter m by using the fracture toughness test results and the developed programs by committee members, the converged values of m show good agreement among them.

Interface atom mobility and charge transfer effects on CuO and CuO formation on CuPd(111) and CuPt(111)

津田 泰孝; Gueriba, J. S.*; 牧野 隆正*; Dio, W. A.*; 吉越 章隆; 岡田 美智雄*

Scientific Reports (Internet), 11, p.3906_1 - 3906_8, 2021/02

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82180-w

We bombarded CuPd(111) and CuPt(111) with a 2.3 eV hyperthermal oxygen molecular beam (HOMB) source, and characterized the corresponding (oxide) surfaces with synchrotron-radiation X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (SR-XPS). At 300 K, CuO forms on both CuPd(111) and CuPt(111). When we increase the surface temperature to 500 K, CuO also forms on CuPd(111), but not on CuPt(111). For comparison, CuO forms even at 300 K on Cu(111). On CuAu(111), CuO forms only after 500 K, and no oxides can be found at 300 K. We ascribe this difference in Cu oxide formation to the mobility of the interfacial species (Cu/Pd/Pt) and charge transfer between the surface Cu oxides and subsurface species (Cu/Pd/Pt).