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Okumura, Yoshikazu; Gobin, R.*; Knaster, J.*; Heidinger, R.*; Ayala, J.-M.*; Bolzon, B.*; Cara, P.*; Chauvin, N.*; Chel, S.*; Gex, D.*; et al.
Review of Scientific Instruments, 87(2), p.02A739_1 - 02A739_3, 2016/02
Times Cited Count：7 Percentile：35.23(Instruments & Instrumentation)IFMIF is an accelerator based neutron facility having two set of linear accelerators each producing 125mA/CW deuterium ion beams (250mA in total) at 40MeV. The LIPAc (Linear IFMIF Prototype Accelerator) being developed in the IFMIF-EVEDA project consists of an injector, a RFQ accelerator, and a part of superconducting Linac, whose target is to demonstrate 125mA/CW deuterium ion beam acceleration up to 9MeV. The injector has been developed in CEA Saclay and already demonstrated 140mA/100keV deuterium beam. The injector was disassembled and delivered to the International Fusion Energy Research Center (IFERC) in Rokkasho, Japan, and the commissioning has started after its reassembly 2014; the first beam production has been achieved in November 2014. Up to now, 100keV/120mA/CW hydrogen ion beam has been produced with a low beam emittance of 0.2 
.mm.mrad (rms, normalized).
/D ion source for IFMIF (International Fusion Materials Irradiation Facility)Shinto, Katsuhiro; Sen
e, F.*; Ayala, J.-M.*; Bolzon, B.*; Chauvin, N.*; Gobin, R.*; Ichimiya, Ryo; Ihara, Akira; Ikeda, Yukiharu; Kasugai, Atsushi; et al.
Review of Scientific Instruments, 87(2), p.02A727_1 - 02A727_3, 2016/02
Times Cited Count：8 Percentile：39.15(Instruments & Instrumentation)Okumura, Yoshikazu; Ayala, J.-M.*; Bolzon, B.*; Cara, P.*; Chauvin, N.*; Chel, S.*; Gex, D.*; Gobin, R.*; Harrault, F.*; Heidinger, R.*; et al.
Proceedings of 12th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (Internet), p.203 - 205, 2015/09
Under the framework of Broader Approach (BA) agreement between Japan and Euratom, IFMIF/EVEDA project was launched in 2007 to validate the key technologies to realize IFMIF. The most crucial technology to realize IFMIF is two set of linear accelerator each producing 125mA/CW deuterium ion beams up to 40MeV. The prototype accelerator, whose target is 125mA/CW deuterium ion beam acceleration up to 9MeV, is being developed in International Fusion Research Energy Center (IFERC) in Rokkasho, Japan. The injector developed in CEA Saclay was delivered in Rokkasho in 2014, and is under commissioning. Up to now, 100keV/120mA/CW hydrogen ion beams and 100keV/90mA/CW duty deuterium ion beams are successfully produced with a low beam emittance of 0.21 .mm.mrad (rms, normalized). Delivery of RFQ components will start in 2015, followed by the installation of RF power supplies in 2015.
Yasue, Kenichi; Tajikara, Masayoshi*; Tanikawa, Shinichi; Sugai, Toshihiko; Yamada, Koji*; Umeda, Koji
Genshiryoku Bakkuendo Kenkyu (CD-ROM), 18(2), p.51 - 62, 2011/12
We attempt to improve the reliability of the TT method, quantitative estimation of inland uplift rate based on the model in which river bed elevation is controlled by the climate change. In order to recognize fluvial terraces in the glacial epoch, it is important to note that flood deposit and phytolith as indicators of the determination of the emergence horizon and the estimate of the paleoclimate, respectively. The identification of thick sediments suggesting the decline of the tractive force in the glacial epoch are also useful for highly accurate comparison and chronology of the terrace. This paper shows that the synthetic examination based on many data obtained by these techniques enables a highly accurate comparison and chronology of the terrace to estimate uplift for the last 100,000 years with high reliability.
Niwa, Yuichi*; Sugai, Toshihiko*; Yasue, Kenichi; Kokubu, Yoko
Chikei, 32(2), p.201 - 206, 2011/04
Analyses data of 24 shallow cores obtained from the Nobi plain, on the footwall side of the Yoro fault, suggest river channel change to west and temporal sea-level rise. The cores are represented by delta system and overlying fluvial system. Stacking patterns of the sedimentary units in the cross sections from the northern plain and 
C ages indicate the possibility that river channel change to the west has been occurred at ca. 2300 cal BP. High electrical conductivity, and brackish-marine diatom species identified in back swamp deposits in the cross section from the southern delta plain suggest temporal relative sea-level rise occurred at 1600 to 2700 cal BP. There is synchronism of the above-mentioned channel change and temporal sea-level rise events. Two possibility is considered as cause of these events; one is tectonic tilting and coseismic subsidence by the faulting at the Yoro fault, another is transgression at the Middle Ages.
Tajikara, Masayoshi*; Yasue, Kenichi; Yanagida, Makoto*; Furusawa, Akira*; Tanaka, Norifumi*; Morita, Yoshimune*; Sugai, Toshihiko
Chirigaku Hyoron, 84(2), p.118 - 130, 2011/03
Many papers reported that Quaternary climate and sea-level fluctuations have controlled riverbed elevation in the river basins in the northeastern Japan. However, in the southwestern Japan, such climatic-controlled riverbed fluctuations have not been reported, except a few reports based on uncertain chronological data. In this research, we investigated fluvial terraces along the Tokigawa river that flows through the low relief mountainous areas, and examined whether riverbed fluctuations similar to these in rivers in the northeastern Japan occurred in the river basin. We mapped fluvial terraces based on air photo analysis, and inferred the age and climate at the time of formation of these terraces based on C dating, tephra analysis, and pollen analysis. Based on results of these analyses, we concluded that the fluvial terraces in the river basin have been formed in consequence of the riverbed fluctuation linked to the climate change.
Tajikara, Masayoshi; Takada, Keita*; Furusawa, Akira*; Sugai, Toshihiko
Dai Yonki Kenkyu, 50(1), p.21 - 34, 2011/02
Three major fluvial terraces are developed well along the Kabura-gawa river, tributary of the Tone-gawa river. We detected cryptotephras in overbank and aeolian deposits covering the middle terrace gravels, and examined petrologic character. We also investigated petrologic character of the Iizuna-Kamitaru tephra (In-Kt) and the Iizuna-Nishiyama (In-Ny) tephra extracted from the outcrops near the Iizuna volcano. Based on these data, we identified possibly In-Kt and In-Ny tephra at the bottom of overbank deposits on the middle terrace of the Kabura-gawa river. This indicates that the middle terrace was formed through aggradation at glacial age of marine oxygen isotope stage 6. The Kabura-gawa river basin is located out of the previously reported distribution area of In-Kt. This fact implies that In-Kt is distributed more widely in the northern Kanto and southern Tohoku regions, and that In-Kt is useful as marker tephra of the middle Pleistocene in these regions.
Saegusa, Yoshie*; Sugai, Toshihiko*; Ogami, Takashi*; Kashima, Kaoru*; Sasao, Eiji
Quaternary International, 230(1-2), p.67 - 77, 2011/01
Times Cited Count：8 Percentile：24.09(Geography, Physical)We reconstructed Holocene environmental changes by analyzing diatom assemblages of four drilling cores from the Nobi Plain, central Japan. We identified five diatom assemblage zones: (1) freshwater species dominant; (2) increase of marine and brackish-marine species, indicating transgression; (3) marine species dominant; (4) increase of freshwater species, indicating marine regression as a result of delta progradation; and (5) freshwater species dominant, in ascending order. It became clear that the shoreline migrated landward (transgression) faster than it migrated seaward (regression) by the comparison the diatom assemblages and lithological units. The transgressive diatom assemblage changes (decrease in marine-brackish water species) took up to 1000 years, whereas regressive changes required only a few hundred years. Diatom analysis is useful for reconstructing not only Holocene sea-level changes and sedimentary environments but also local geographic effects.
Niwa, Yuichi*; Sugai, Toshihiko*; Saegusa, Yoshie*; Ogami, Takashi*; Sasao, Eiji
Quaternary International, 230(1-2), p.78 - 86, 2011/01
Times Cited Count：10 Percentile：28.95(Geography, Physical)We assessed the usefulness of electrical conductivity (EC) of stirred Holocene deltaic sediments from three cores from the Nobi Plain, Japan, as a proxy for marine transgression and regression. Marine deposits showed high EC, terrestrial deposits low EC, and brackish deposits intermediate. Because it was positively correlated with the percentage of marine diatom species, EC in inner bay deposits primarily reflected salinity. In the YM core (the youngest of the three cores), EC of the inner bay deposits was weakly positively correlated with clay content. EC of inner bay clayey deposits was generally higher in YM than in KZN, suggesting that the lower EC in older clayey sediments results from compaction. These findings suggest that the EC values of fine sediments initially record salinity but may decrease gradually over time under the influence of compaction. Thus, to reconstruct the original salinity, the effects of compaction and of grain size distribution should be evaluated.
Morita, Yoshimune*; Kamiya, Chiho*; Sasaki, Toshinori*; Miyagi, Toyohiko*; Sugai, Toshihiko; Yanagida, Makoto*; Furusawa, Akira*; Fujiwara, Osamu*
Kikan Chirigaku, 62(4), p.195 - 210, 2010/12
It is assumed that the variation of temperature and the precipitation with the climate change may affect geological environment such as the subsurface water flow. Therefore, as well as global climate change from the past to the present, investigation technology to grasp local climate change is indispensable. A palynological study was carried out using the sediment core taken from the Okute Basin, located in the northeast of Mizunami Underground Research Laboratory. As a result, it was appeared that in a interglacial epoch, there was much precipitation around this area, and that in a glacial epoch, became colder and more arid, compared with Kinki region in the same latitude. This shows that the modern analog method with pollen data from the sediment of the inland basin is effective technique to estimate a local climate change.
C datingsOgami, Takashi*; Sugai, Toshihiko*; Fujiwara, Osamu*; Yamaguchi, Masaaki*; Sasao, Eiji
Chigaku Zasshi, 118(4), p.665 - 685, 2009/00
The depositional process of the latest Pleistocene to Holocene shallow marine and fluvial sequences is investigated by using five drill cores from the Kiso river delta, central Japan. Based on facies analysis, the sediments were classified into 5 units; A: basal gravel, B: fluvial to intertidal sand and silt, C: transgressive lag deposit, prodelta mud or sandy silt, D: delta-front-slope sandy silt or sand, delta-front-platform sand, E: delta-plain to fluvial sand and silt. Detailed age-depth curves of each cores are reconstructed based on 107 AMS C ages. The curves are divided into four sections; I: mainly consists of unit B with rapid accumulation (7.3-21.4 mm/yr), II: mainly consists of unit C with moderate accumulation (2.4-2.8 mm/yr), III: mainly consists of unit D with rapid accumulation (6.7-17.8 mm/yr), IV: consists of unit D and E with moderate accumulation (1.3-3.9 mm/yr). The section boundaries of I/II and II/III reflect inundation into the bay and achievement of progradational delta-front slope, respectively. The expanding rate of the bay is 10 m/yr during 10,200-7,900 cal yrs BP. The progradation rates of the delta are 3-4 m/yr (6.500-4,100 cal yrs BP), 5 m/yr (4,100-1,300 cal yrs BP), 10 m/yr (1,300 cal yrs BP to the present). These indicate the transition from transgression to regression occurred between 7,800 to 7,300 cal yrs BP. The geological cross section along the Kiso river coupled with isochrones indicates following history. (1) 10,000-7,280 cal yrs BP (K-Ah horizon): During the expansion of the bay, onlap of unit C on unit B is visible, and unit C overlapped all the core sites. (2) 7,280 cal yrs BP to present: Isochrones younger than 6,500 cal yrs BP are similar each other and cross unit boundaries of C/D and D/E. This demonstrates units C, D and E are contemporaneous heterotopic facies formed by progradational delta.
Morita, Yoshimune*; Kamiya, Chiho*; Sasaki, Toshinori*; Miyagi, Toyohiko*; Sugai, Toshihiko*; Yanagida, Makoto*; Furusawa, Akira*; Fujiwara, Osamu*; Moriya, Toshifumi*
Kikan Chirigaku, 58(3), p.123 - 139, 2006/00
A palynological study was carried out using the 25.3 m long sediment core taken from Okute basin, Mizunami city, central Japan. Sediments of this core were accumilated for more than ca. 300,000 years. From the results of pollen analysis, the sediments are devided into 15 pollen assemblages zones. These changes show a repetition of five warm and four cool stages. Each stage corresponds to MIS 9 to 1. Consequently, a temperature of MIS 5 was higher than those of MIS 7 and 9. A temperature of MIS 9 was not so high.
Tajikara, Masayoshi; Takada, Keita*; Furusawa, Akira*; Morita, Yoshimune*; Sugai, Toshihiko*
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We investigated fluvial terraces along the Kaburakawa River, in order to clarify the model of fluvial terrace development. Based on air photo analysis, fluvial terraces in the study area were classified into four categories (Q1-Q4). Existing papers reported that Q3 was formed in Marin Oxygen Isotope Stage (MIS) 2. In this study, we found a fragment of tree which is identified as 
or 
. This fact indicates that Q3 was formed in relatively cold age. Q2 is distributed at higher level than Q3. We found Iizuna-Kamitaru Tephra (Iz-Kt) at the lowermost part of aeolian deposits or uppermost part of overbank deposits in some outcrops of Q2 deposits. Since Iz-Kt is believed to fall at boundary of MIS 5 and 6, we concluded that Q2 deposits was accumulated in MIS 6 and that Q2 was incised in MIS 5.
Niwa, Yuichi*; Tajikara, Masayoshi; Yasue, Kenichi; Ogami, Takashi*; Sugai, Toshihiko*
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Ogami, Takashi*; Tajikara, Masayoshi; Yasue, Kenichi; Niwa, Yuichi*; Sugai, Toshihiko*
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Tajikara, Masayoshi; Yasue, Kenichi; Yanagida, Makoto*; Sugai, Toshihiko; Morita, Yoshimune*; Furusawa, Akira*
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Niwa, Yuichi*; Sugai, Toshihiko; Ogami, Takashi*; Tajikara, Masayoshi; Yasue, Kenichi; Fujiwara, Osamu*
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-Co thin filmsSakai, Seiji; Matsumoto, Yoshihiro; Sugai, Isamu*; Mitani, Seiji*; Takanashi, Koki; Takagi, Yasumasa*; Nakagawa, Takeshi*; Yokoyama, Toshihiko*; Shimada, Toshihiro*; Maeda, Yoshihito
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-Co hybrid filmsSakai, Seiji; Matsumoto, Yoshihiro; Sugai, Isamu*; Mitani, Seiji*; Takanashi, Koki; Takagi, Yasumasa*; Nakagawa, Takeshi*; Yokoyama, Toshihiko*; Shimada, Toshihiro*; Naramoto, Hiroshi*; et al.
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-Co hybrid filmsSakai, Seiji; Matsumoto, Yoshihiro; Sugai, Isamu*; Mitani, Seiji*; Takanashi, Koki; Takagi, Yasumasa*; Nakagawa, Takeshi*; Yokoyama, Toshihiko*; Naramoto, Hiroshi*; Maeda, Yoshihito
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In the present study, the V and T dependences of the TMR effect are investigated intensively for the co-deposited C-Co films with different compositions. The mechanism of the giant TMR effect is discussed taking our recent results for the microstructures of the granular films (i.e., a hybrid structure of the covalent C-Co compound and Co nanoparticles dispersed therein) and the electronic and spin states of the C-Co compound studied by XPS and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) spectroscopy into account.
