Development of nondestructive elemental analysis system for Hayabusa2 samples using muonic X-rays

Osawa, Takahito; Nagasawa, Shunsaku*; Ninomiya, Kazuhiko*; Takahashi, Tadayuki*; Nakamura, Tomoki*; Wada, Taiga*; Taniguchi, Akihiro*; Umegaki, Izumi*; Kubo, Kenya*; Terada, Kentaro*; et al.

ACS Earth and Space Chemistry (Internet), 7(4), p.699 - 711, 2023/04

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.2c00303

The concentrations of carbon and other major elements in asteroid samples provide very important information on the birth of life on the Earth and the solar-system evolution. Elemental analysis using muonic X-rays is one of the best analytical methods to determine the elemental composition of solid materials, and notably, is the only method to determine the concentration of light elements in bulk samples in a non-destructive manner. We developed a new analysis system using muonic X-rays to measure the concentrations of carbon and other major elements in precious and expectedly tiny samples recovered from the asteroid Ryugu by spacecraft Hayabusa2. Here we report the development process of the system in 4 stages and their system configurations, The analysis system is composed of a stainless-steel analysis chamber, an acrylic glove box for manipulating asteroid samples in a clean environment, and Ge semiconductor detectors arranged to surround the analysis chamber. The performance of the analysis system, including the background level, which is crucial for the measurement, was greatly improved from the first stage to the later ones. Our feasibility study showed that the latest model of our muonic X-ray analysis system is capable of determining the carbon concentration in Hayabusa2's sample model with an uncertainty of less than 10 percent in a 6-day measurement.

Present status of J-PARC MUSE

Shimomura, Koichiro*; Koda, Akihiro*; Pant, A. D.*; Natori, Hiroaki*; Fujimori, Hiroshi*; Umegaki, Izumi*; Nakamura, Jumpei*; Tampo, Motonobu*; Kawamura, Naritoshi*; Teshima, Natsuki*; et al.

Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 2462, p.012033_1 - 012033_5, 2023/03

https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/2462/1/012033

Development of elemental 3D imaging method by muonic X-ray measurement using CdTe-DSD

Chiu, I.-H.; Osawa, Takahito; Ninomiya, Kazuhiko*; Takeda, Shinichiro*; Katsuragawa, Miho*; Takahashi, Tadayuki*; Watanabe, Shin*; Kubo, Kenya*; Saito, Tsutomu*; Mizumoto, Kazumi*; et al.

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Elementary excitations in an S=1/2 antiferromagnetic chain KCuGaF

Tanaka, Hidekazu*; Kurita, Nubuyuki*; Umegaki, Izumi*; Ono, Toshio*; Laver, M.*; Niedermayer, Ch.*; Regg, Ch.*; Kawamura, Seiko; Nakajima, Kenji; Kakurai, Kazuhisa

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Development of a 3D elemental imaging system with muonic X-ray measurement using the CdTe detectors

Chiu, I.-H.; Osawa, Takahito; Takeda, Shinichiro*; Katsuragawa, Miho*; Takahashi, Tadayuki*; Watanabe, Shin*; Kubo, Kenya*; Mizumoto, Kazumi*; Saito, Tsutomu*; Umegaki, Izumi*; et al.

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Non-destructive elemental analysis method has been developed for the materials by high-energy muon-characteristic X-rays measurement. To further improve the method, we have also utilized two-dimensional cadmium telluride hard X-ray detectors (CdTe-DSDs) for the muonic X-rays measurement to obtain the 3D elemental distribution of the sample. In this work, a 3D imaging system has been created using four CdTe-DSDs. The experiment of 3D elemental imaging for archaeological materials was performed using a negative muon beam at J-PARC/MUSE, and the three-dimensional distribution of silicon and oxygen was confirmed. This presentation introduces the research progress so far.