Recent improvements of the Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System; PHITS version 3.33

Sato, Tatsuhiko; Iwamoto, Yosuke; Hashimoto, Shintaro; Ogawa, Tatsuhiko; Furuta, Takuya; Abe, Shinichiro; Kai, Takeshi; Matsuya, Yusuke; Matsuda, Norihiro; Hirata, Yuho; et al.

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 9 Pages, 2023/00

https://doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2023.2275736

The Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System (PHITS) is a general-purpose Monte Carlo radiation transport code that can simulate the behavior of most particle species with energies up to 1 TeV (per nucleon for ions). Its new version, PHITS3.31, was recently developed and released to the public. In the new version, the compatibility with high-energy nuclear data libraries and the algorithm of the track-structure modes have been improved. In this paper, we summarize the upgraded features of PHITS3.31 with respect to the physics models, utility functions, and application software introduced since the release of PHITS3.02 in 2017.

Melting of Pb charge glass and simultaneous Pb-Cr charge transfer in PbCrO as the origin of volume collapse

Yu, R.*; Hojo, Hajime*; Watanuki, Tetsu; Mizumaki, Masaichiro*; Mizokawa, Takashi*; Oka, Kengo*; Kim, H.*; Machida, Akihiko; Sakaki, Koji*; Nakamura, Yumiko*; et al.

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(39), p.12719 - 12728, 2015/10

https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5b08216

no abstracts in English

Observation of transient structural changes on hydrogen absorption process of LaNiSn by time resolved X-ray diffraction

Machida, Akihiko; Higuchi, Kensuke*; Katayama, Yoshinori; Sakaki, Koji*; Kim, H.*; Nakamura, Yumiko*

Nihon Kinzoku Gakkai-Shi, 79(3), p.124 - 130, 2015/03

https://doi.org/10.2320/jinstmet.JC201407

Structural changes on hydrogen absorption process of hydrogen absorbing alloy LaNiSn have been investigated by time-resolved X-ray diffraction measurements using synchrotron radiation source. We have found the transient intermediate phase between the solid solution and hydride phases of LaNiSn under non-equilibrium hydrogen pressure condition at room temperature. LaNiSn has transformed into the hydride through three phase co-existing state. The hydrogen content of the intermediate phase estimated from the unit cell volume is independent of the induced hydrogen gas pressure. The variation of lattice constants indicate that the hydrogen atoms are located at the LaNi(Ni,Sn) octahedron and La(Ni,Sn) tetrahedron in the intermediate phase.

Effect of a quenching rate on hydrogen storage properties of VTiZr

Kim, H.*; Sakaki, Koji*; Asano, Kota*; Ikeda, Kazutaka*; Otomo, Toshiya*; Machida, Akihiko; Watanuki, Tetsu; Nakamura, Yumiko*

Nihon Kinzoku Gakkai-Shi, 79(3), p.131 - 136, 2015/03

https://doi.org/10.2320/jinstmet.JC201405

no abstracts in English

Safety managements of the linear IFMIF/EVEDA prototype accelerator

Takahashi, Hiroki; Maebara, Sunao; Kojima, Toshiyuki; Narita, Takahiro; Tsutsumi, Kazuyoshi; Sakaki, Hironao; Suzuki, Hiromitsu; Sugimoto, Masayoshi

Fusion Engineering and Design, 89(9-10), p.2066 - 2070, 2014/10

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2014.02.051

Reduction and unusual recovery in the reversible hydrogen storage capacity of VTi during hydrogen cycling

Kim, H.*; Sakaki, Koji*; Saita, Itoko*; Enoki, Hirotoshi*; Noguchi, Kazuo*; Machida, Akihiko; Watanuki, Tetsu; Nakamura, Yumiko*

International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 39(20), p.10546 - 10551, 2014/07

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.04.128

The effect of the vanadium content on the cyclic stability of V-Ti binary alloys was investigated. VTi, 0.2 and 0.5 samples were hydrogenated and dehydrogenated at 410 K and 553 K respectively, for more than 100 times. During hydrogen cycling, reduction in the reversible hydrogen storage capacity was clearly observed from both samples. In addition, the shape of the pressure-composition-isotherm curves was significantly altered over the testing cycle period; the absorption and desorption plateaus got markedly inclined and the hysteresis became evidently smaller. We found that even after the hydrogen storage capacity of VTi was significantly reduced, at low enough temperature VTi was able to absorb hydrogen as much as it did at the first cycle.

Degradation mechanism against hydrogenation cycles in MgPrNi ( = 0.6 and 1.0)

Sakaki, Koji*; Terashita, Naoyoshi*; Kim, H.*; Majzoub, E. H.*; Machida, Akihiko; Watanuki, Tetsu; Tsunokake, Shigeru*; Nakamura, Yumiko*; Akiba, Etsuo*

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(13), p.6697 - 6705, 2014/04

https://doi.org/10.1021/jp500855d

We present an investigation of the degradation mechanism against hydrogenation cycles in MgPrNi ( = 0.6 and 1.0). MgPrNi shows significant degradation and loss of capacity after only a few cycles, while MgPrNi did not show any reduction of hydrogen storage capacity until 100 cycles. The peak broadening of X-ray diffraction patterns and accumulation of lattice strain were observed concomitantly with an increase of hydrogenation cycles only in MgPrNi. These changes were not observed in MgPrNi. In pair distribution function patterns, -dependent peak broadening was observed and it became significant with an increasing number of cycles in MgPrNi, suggesting an increase of the dislocation density. MgPrNi showed higher hardness and more pulverization upon hydrogenation than MgPrNi.

Measurements of electron-induced neutrons as a tool for determination of electron temperature of fast electrons in the task of optimization laser-produced plasma ions acceleration

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

Review of Scientific Instruments, 85(2), p.02A705_1 - 02A705_4, 2014/02

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4825154

High intensity laser-plasma interaction has attracted considerable interest for a number of years. The laser-plasma interaction is accompanied by generation of various charged particle beams. Results of simultaneous novel measurements of electron-induced photonuclear neutrons (photoneutron), which are a diagnostic of the laser-plasma interaction, are proposed to use for optimization of the laser-plasma ion generation. The proposed method is demonstrated by the laser irradiation with the intensity os 110 W/cm on the metal foil target. The photoneutrons are measured by using NE213 liquid scintillation detectors. Heavy-ion signal is registered with the CR39 track detector simultaneously. The measured signals of the electron-induced photoneutrons are well reproduced by using the Particle and Heavy Ion Transport code System (PHITS). The results obtained provide useful approach for analyzing the various laser based ion beams.

Origin of degradation in the reversible hydrogen storage capacity of VTi alloys from the atomic pair distribution function analysis

Kim, H.*; Sakaki, Koji*; Ogawa, Hiroshi*; Nakamura, Yumiko*; Nakamura, Jin*; Akiba, Etsuo*; Machida, Akihiko; Watanuki, Tetsu; Proffen, T.*

Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 117(50), p.26543 - 26550, 2013/12

https://doi.org/10.1021/jp408766r

Reduction in reversible hydrogen storage capacity with increasing hydrogenation and dehydrogenation cycle number is observed in numerous hydrogen storage materials, but the mechanism behind this unfavorable change has not been elucidated yet. In this study, we have investigated the development of structural defects or disorders in VTiH, = 0, 0.2, and 0.5, during the first 15 hydrogen absorption and desorption cycles using the atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis of synchrotron X-ray total scattering data to find out the possible structural origin of the poor cyclic stability of VTi alloys.

Development of a single-shot-imaging thin film for an online Thomson parabola spectrometer

Sakaki, Hironao; Kanasaki, Masato; Fukuda, Yuji; Nishiuchi, Mamiko; Hori, Toshihiko; Yogo, Akifumi; Jinno, Satoshi; Niita, Koji*

Review of Scientific Instruments, 84(1), p.013301_1 - 013301_7, 2013/01

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4773546

A single-shot-imaging thin scintillator film was developed for an online Thomson parabola (TP) spectrometer and the first analysis of laser accelerated ions, using the online TP spectrometer, was demonstrated at the JAEA-Kansai Advanced Relativistic Engineering Laser System (J-KAREN). An energy spectrum of 4.0 MeV protons is obtained using only this imaging film without the need of a microchannel plate that is typically utilized in online ion analyses. A general-purpose Monte Carlo particle and heavy ion-transport code system, which consists of various quantum dynamics models, was used for the prediction of the luminescent properties of the scintillator. The simulation can reasonably predict not only the ion trajectories detected by the spectrometer, but also luminescence properties.