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

Okudaira, Takuya; Oku, Takayuki; Ino, Takashi*; Hayashida, Hirotoshi*; Kira, Hiroshi*; Sakai, Kenji; Hiroi, Kosuke; Takahashi, Shingo*; Aizawa, Kazuya; Endo, Hitoshi*; 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

Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex, 3; Neutron devices and computational and sample environments

Sakasai, Kaoru; Sato, Setsuo*; Seya, Tomohiro*; Nakamura, Tatsuya; To, Kentaro; Yamagishi, Hideshi*; Soyama, Kazuhiko; Yamazaki, Dai; Maruyama, Ryuji; Oku, Takayuki; et al.

Quantum Beam Science (Internet), 1(2), p.10_1 - 10_35, 2017/09

https://doi.org/10.3390/qubs1020010

Neutron devices such as neutron detectors, optical devices including supermirror devices and He neutron spin filters, and choppers are successfully developed and installed at the Materials Life Science Facility (MLF) of the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC), Tokai, Japan. Four software components of MLF computational environment, instrument control, data acquisition, data analysis, and a database, have been developed and equipped at MLF. MLF also provides a wide variety of sample environment options including high and low temperatures, high magnetic fields, and high pressures. This paper describes the current status of neutron devices, computational and sample environments at MLF.

Evaluation of protection factors of a breath-responsive-powered air-purifying respirator

Nakagawa, Masahiro; Nojima, Shun; Fujii, Katsutoshi; Shishido, Nobuhito; Sakai, Toshiya; Umehara, Takashi; Shimizu, Isamu

Hoken Butsuri, 47(3), p.189 - 193, 2012/10

https://doi.org/10.5453/jhps.47.189

It is essential to wear an air-purifying respirator in the radiation works in a contaminated atmosphere. A breath-responsive-powered air-purifying respirator (BR-PAPR) has been recently developed. However, no research has yet been conducted to determine the protection factor (PF) of the BR-PAPR in actual workplaces. In this study, the PFs of the BR-PAPR were measured by a man-test apparatus and compared with those of a non-powered full face mask. The PFs were measured under three different situations; normal wearing condition, clogging the filter and leaving a gap between the face and the mask. Under these situations, it was found that the PFs of the BR-PAPR are higher than those of the non-powered full face mask. PFs greater than 4000 were obtained for 95% of the subjects who wear the BR-PAPR, and PFs over 6667, the upper limit of the man-test apparatus, were obtained for 49% of them. The questionnaire survey was conducted for workers. The results showed that the workers feel a reduced burden when they wear the BR-PAPR. The results of this study showed high protection performance and operation efficiency of the BR-PAPR.

The Calculation of transverse kick by the input coupler of superconducting cavity for ERL main linac

Muto, Toshiya*; Umemori, Kensei*; Sakai, Hiroshi*; Sawamura, Masaru; Shinoe, Kenji*; Furuya, Takaaki*

Proceedings of 7th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (DVD-ROM), p.840 - 842, 2010/08

http://www.pasj.jp/web_publish/pasj7/proceedings/P_5PM/P_EH_5PM/THPS024.pdf

Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) for future light source has been developed by KEK, JAEA, ISSP and other institutes in Japan. An input coupler must feed high power, which is estimated about 20 kW for 20 MV/m ERL operation, into the main linac superconducting cavities. Because the input coupler induced an asymmetric electromagnetic field in the cavity, accelerating TM010 mode produce a transverse kick similar to higher order modes. Using CST Microwave-Studio (MW-Studio), we calculated the transverse kick of accelerating mode induced by the input coupler. In case of the on crest acceleration, the transverse kick by the transverse electric field and magnetic field are small as compared with the accelerating voltage. We also calculated the dependence with various inserted position of the coupler. In this paper, we will report the calculation of transverse kick and an arrangement of cavities to reduce the transverse kick.

Field-induced incommensurate-to-commensurate transition in the triangular lattice antiferromagnet GdPdAl

Inami, Toshiya; Terada, Noriki*; Kitazawa, Hideaki*; Sakai, Osamu*

Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 200, p.032022_1 - 032022_4, 2010/02

https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/200/3/032022

Progress in R&D efforts on the energy recovery linac in Japan

Sakanaka, Shogo*; Ago, Tomonori*; Enomoto, Atsushi*; Fukuda, Shigeki*; Furukawa, Kazuro*; Furuya, Takaaki*; Haga, Kaiichi*; Harada, Kentaro*; Hiramatsu, Shigenori*; Honda, Toru*; et al.

Proceedings of 11th European Particle Accelerator Conference (EPAC '08) (CD-ROM), p.205 - 207, 2008/06

Future synchrotron light sources based on the energy-recovery linacs (ERLs) are expected to be capable of producing super-brilliant and/or ultra-short pulses of synchrotron radiation. Our Japanese collaboration team is making efforts for realizing an ERL-based hard X-ray source. We report recent progress in our R&D efforts.

Performance tests of a mask fitting tester for use in nuclear facilities

Nakagawa, Masahiro; Kato, Takuya; Nojima, Shun; Sakai, Toshiya; Shishido, Nobuhito; Umehara, Takashi

no journal, , 

Mask fitting tester "MT-03" is widespread as educational equipment in medical institution and industrial organization. However, there are few examples introduced in order to check the protection performance of purifying respirators in nuclear facilities. In this study, we compared protection factors obtained by MT-03 and those obtained by Mask-man test apparatus "MT-100N". As a result, although the change of measurement result is larger and measured value is higher than that of MT-100N, it was found that protection performance can be checked appropriately.

Visualization of produced water inside a full-size fuel cell used in a real automobile

Shinohara, Takenao; Sakai, Motonobu*; Kawakita, Yukinobu; Otomo, Toshiya*; Imai, Hideto*; Aoki, Tsutomu*; Amemiya, Kazuki*

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Radiation management for removing of radioactive liquid waste pipeline

Takahashi, Teruhiko; Niinuma, Shinichi; Futagawa, Kazuo; Otsuka, Yoshikazu; Muto, Yasushi; Sakai, Toshiya; Umehara, Takashi; Shimizu, Isamu; Umino, Takaaki; Yamada, Satoshi; et al.

no journal, , 

no abstracts in English

Contamination at Plutonium Fuel Research Facility of Oarai Research and Development Center, 1; Situation of the event

Kinouchi, Nobuyuki; Hashimoto, Makoto; Sakai, Toshiya; Yoshizawa, Michio; Momose, Takumaro

no journal, , 

We report on the situation of the occurrence of contamination at Plutonium Fuel Research Facility of Oarai Research and Development Center.