Development and operation of an electrostatic time-of-flight detector for the Rare RI storage Ring

Nagae, Daisuke*; Abe, Yasushi*; Okada, Shunsuke*; Omika, Shuichiro*; Wakayama, Kiyoshi*; Hosoi, Shun*; Suzuki, Shinji*; Moriguchi, Tetsuro*; Amano, Masamichi*; Kamioka, Daiki*; et al.

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A, 986, p.164713_1 - 164713_7, 2021/01

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2020.164713

Crystallization and preliminary neutron diffraction studies of HIV-1 protease cocrystallized with inhibitor KNI-272

Matsumura, Hiroyoshi*; Adachi, Motoyasu; Sugiyama, Shigeru*; Okada, Shino*; Yamakami, Megumi*; Tamada, Taro; Hidaka, Koshi*; Hayashi, Yoshio*; Kimura, Toru*; Kiso, Yoshiaki*; et al.

Acta Crystallographica Section F, 64(11), p.1003 - 1006, 2008/11

https://doi.org/10.1107/S1744309108029679

This paper reports the crystallization and preliminary neutron diffraction measurements of HIV-1 protease, a potential target for anti-HIV therapy, complexed with an inhibitor (KNI-272). The aim of this neutron diffraction study is to obtain structural information about the H atoms and to determine the protonation states of the residues within the active site. The crystal was grown to a size of 1.4 mm by repeated macroseeding and a slow-cooling method using a two-liquid system. Neutron diffraction data were collected at room temperature using a BIX-4 diffractometer at the JRR-3 research reactor of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA). The data set was integrated and scaled to 2.3 resolution in space group P2(1)2(1)2, with unit-cell parameters a = 59.5, b = 87.4, c = 46.8 .

Relationship between residual stress and recrystallization in aluminum single crystal

Shiro, Ayumi; Shobu, Takahisa; Okada, Tatsuya*; Kawano, Tomoya*; Bunya, Hirotomo*

no journal, , 

measurement of lattice strain under plastic deformation in Aluminum single crystal

Shiro, Ayumi; Shobu, Takahisa; Okada, Tatsuya*; Kawano, Tomoya*; Bunya, Hirotomo*

no journal, , 

Aluminum single crystals deformed along the 111 direction exhibit a macroscopically uniform multiple-slip without deformation bands. In a previous study, it was found that the residual strain of Al single crystal deformed to a tensile strain of 8% to the 111 direction is very small. In this study, in order to clarify the strain distribution under tensile deformation, we carried out the measurement using 2-dimensional detector. As a result, it was found as follows: (1) The width of diffraction spots were broadening as a plastic deformation was large. (2) Three subcrystals existed in the aluminum single crystal, and each subcrystal has different strain. (3) The relationship between the width of diffraction spot and formation behavior of the internal dislocation substructure existed.

Measurement of electron spectrum generated by irradiating thin-Foil target with Ultra-intense Ultra-short pulse laser

Maeda, Shota; Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Sakaki, Hironao; Sagisaka, Akito; Pirozhkov, A. S.; Pikuz, T.; Faenov, A. Ya.*; Ogura, Koichi; Fukuda, Yuji; Matsukawa, Kenya*; et al.

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In JAEA, the high energy ions generated by the interaction between Ultra-intense Ultra-Short pulse laser and thin-foil target is being studied. Irradiating condition must be optimized to generate higher energy ions while suppress the becoming gigantic of laser. It is necessary to know the physical phenomenon in plasma to determine the parameter to optimize from the information on the electron and neutron, X-rays, which are generated simultaneously with ion. In this study, in order to measure electron temperature accurately, an electron spectrometer was developed which have broad range (1-200 MeV). The detector is comprised of permanent magnets and a fluorescent plate, CCD camera. In the presentation, the result of the calibration experiment carried out using 4, 9, 12, 15 MeV quasi-monoenergetic electron beam in HIBMC will be reported. Moreover, response analysis method was inspected using PHITS which is particle transporting Monte Carlo simulation code, and will also report the result.

Evaluation of strain and crystallographic property of 111 aluminum single crystal using synchrotron radiation

Shiro, Ayumi; Okada, Tatsuya*; Kawano, Tomoya*; Sato, Takafumi*; Shobu, Takahisa

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no abstracts in English

Analysis of uranium in environmental samples by micro X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy using transition edge sensors

Yomogida, Takumi; Yamada, Shinya*; Ichinohe, Yuto*; Sato, Toshiki*; Hayakawa, Ryota*; Okada, Shinji*; Toyama, Yuichi*; Hashimoto, Tadashi; Noda, Hirofumi*; Isobe, Tadaaki*; et al.

no journal, , 

Biotite is known as a host phase that retains uranium (U) in uranium deposits at Ningyo-Toge and Tono, and it is expected that the distribution of U in biotite will provide insight into the concentration and long-term immobilization of U. However, biotite contains rubidium (Rb), which interferes with X-ray fluorescence analysis, making it difficult to accurately determine the distribution of U-Rb in biotite by measurement using a conventional solid state detector (SSD). In this study, we developed a method to use a transition edge sensor (TES) as a detector in microbeam X-ray fluorescence analysis, which enables us to detect X-ray fluorescence with an energy resolution of about 20 eV and to obtain a Rb K line at 13.373 keV and a U L line at 13.612 keV can be completely separated. Therefore,the developed method enables us to accurately determine the distribution of U-Rb in biotite.