Late-Holocene salinity changes in Lake Ogawara, Pacific coast of northeast Japan, related to sea-level fall inferred from sedimentary geochemical signatures

Nara, Fumiko*; Watanabe, Takahiro; Matsunaka, Tetsuya*; Yamasaki, Shinichi*; Tsuchiya, Noriyoshi*; Seto, Koji*; Yamada, Kazuyoshi*; Yasuda, Yoshinori*

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 592, p.110907_1 - 110907_11, 2022/04

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2022.110907

Radiocarbon dating, tephrochronology, and geochemical signatures such as bromine (Br), iodine (I), total sulfur (TS), total organic carbon (TOC), and total nitrogen (TN) in a continuous sediment core (OG12-2) were applied to estimate past salinity change on the Lake Ogawara, Pacific coast of northeast Japan. Since the Lake Ogawara was the inner bay of the Pacific Ocean and became the brackish lake in the late Holocene, clarifying the past salinity change on the lake Ogawara could give us important insight into the past sea level changes of the Pacific Ocean. The core OG12-2 has two tephra layers, the Towada eruption and the Changbaishan eruption (B-Tm: AD 946). The age model for the core OG12-2 was established using the radiocarbon measurements of the plant residues in the core, also was constrained by the B-Tm tephra. Depletions of marine-derived elements (Br, I, and TS), from 88.4 to 64.2 mg/kg, 20.0 to 14.1 mg/kg, and 3.1 to 1.1 mass %, respectively, were observed in the layers with 2200-2000 cal BP. These results indicate paleosalinity changes from saline (inner bay) to brackish conditions within Lake Ogawara caused by sea level fluctuations during the late Holocene.

Characteristics in trace elements compositions of tephras (B-Tm and To-a) for identification tools

Nara, Fumiko*; Yokoyama, Tatsunori; Yamasaki, Shinichi*; Minami, Masayo*; Asahara, Yoshihiro*; Watanabe, Takahiro; Yamada, Kazuyoshi*; Tsuchiya, Noriyoshi*; Yasuda, Yoshinori*

Geochemical Journal, 55(3), p.117 - 133, 2021/00

https://doi.org/10.2343/geochemj.2.0619

The absolute date of the Millennium Eruption (ME) of Changbaishan Volcano is widely recognized as AD 946. The Baegdosan-Tomakomai (B-Tm) tephra dispersed during the ME is a robust-age key bed. In order to identify the tephra, refractive index and major-element compositions of volcanic glass shards are conventionally used. However, trace-element analysis has been rarely carried out, especially for rare-earth elements (REEs) and for tephra layer bulk sediments. Here we present the datasets of major- and trace-element compositions datasets for the glass shards and bulk sediments of the B-Tm and Towada caldera eruptions (To-a) tephra deposits from the Lake Ogawara sediment core, Tohoku region, northern Japan. The depth profiles of the major and trace elements show the significant peaks for the KO and some trace elements (Zn, Rb, Zr, Nb, Sn, Y, La, Ce, Nd, Th, and U) at the B-Tm tephra layer in the Lake Ogawara sediment core, but no peaks of these elements at the To-a tephra layer. High concentrations of the trace elements in the B-Tm tephra layer were observed in individual glass shards as well as in the bulk sediment. These concentrations are highlighted by the elemental abundance pattern normalized by the crustal abundance. The elemental pattern in individual glass shards from other Japanese tephras showed significant differences from those of the B-Tm tephra, especially in REEs compositions. The trace-element compositions of the glass shards and bulk sediment show strong advantages for distinguishing the B-Tm tephra from other Japanese tephras.

A New approach for measuring the muon anomalous magnetic moment and electric dipole moment

Abe, Mitsushi*; Bae, S.*; Beer, G.*; Bunce, G.*; Choi, H.*; Choi, S.*; Chung, M.*; da Silva, W.*; Eidelman, S.*; Finger, M.*; et al.

Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics (Internet), 2019(5), p.053C02_1 - 053C02_22, 2019/05

https://doi.org/10.1093/ptep/ptz030

This paper introduces a new approach to measure the muon magnetic moment anomaly and the muon electric dipole moment (EDM) at the J-PARC muon facility. The goal of our experiment is to measure and using an independent method with a factor of 10 lower muon momentum, and a factor of 20 smaller diameter storage-ring solenoid compared with previous and ongoing muon g-2 experiments with unprecedented quality of the storage magnetic field. Additional significant differences from the present experimental method include a factor of 1000 smaller transverse emittance of the muon beam (reaccelerated thermal muon beam), its efficient vertical injection into the solenoid, and tracking each decay positron from muon decay to obtain its momentum vector. The precision goal for is a statistical uncertainty of 450 parts per billion (ppb), similar to the present experimental uncertainty, and a systematic uncertainty less than 70 ppb. The goal for EDM is a sensitivity of ecm.

Direct observation of lattice symmetry breaking at the hidden-order transition in URuSi

Tonegawa, Sho*; Kasahara, Shigeru*; Fukuda, Tatsuo; Sugimoto, Kunihisa*; Yasuda, Nobuhiro*; Tsuruhara, Yugo*; Watanabe, Daiki*; Mizukami, Yuta*; Haga, Yoshinori; Matsuda, Tatsuma*; et al.

Nature Communications (Internet), 5, p.4188_1 - 4188_7, 2014/06

https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5188

Coexistence of antiferromagnetism and heavy-fermion superconductivity in CePtSi studied by neutron scattering

Kaneko, Koji; Metoki, Naoto; Bernhoeft, N.*; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Haga, Yoshinori; Yasuda, Takashi*; Takeuchi, Tetsuya*; Settai, Rikio*; Onuki, Yoshichika

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 75(Suppl.), p.177 - 179, 2006/08

no abstracts in English

Pt-NMR study on noncentrosymmetric heavy-fermion superconductor CePtSi

Yogi, Mamoru*; Kitaoka, Yoshio*; Hashimoto, Shin*; Yasuda, Takashi*; Settai, Rikio*; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Haga, Yoshinori; Onuki, Yoshichika; Rogl, P.*; Bauer, E.*

Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 67(1-3), p.522 - 524, 2006/01

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpcs.2005.10.070

We report on magnetic and novel superconducting properties in heavy-fermion (HF) noncentrosymmetric compound CePtSi via the measurement of Pt nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate 1/. This compound reveals the uniform coexistence of antiferromagnetism ( =2.2 K) and superconductivity ( =0.75 K). CePtSi is the first HF superconductor that reveals a peak in 1/ just below and, additionally, does not follow the law that was observed for most unconventional HF superconductors. The novel relaxation behavior found below may be relevant with a possible novel SC state being realized in the noncentrosymmetric CePtSi.

Novel pressure phase diagram of heavy fermion superconductor CePtSi investigated by ac calorimetry

Tateiwa, Naoyuki; Haga, Yoshinori; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Ikeda, Shugo; Yasuda, Takashi*; Takeuchi, Tetsuya*; Settai, Rikio*; Onuki, Yoshichika

Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 74(7), p.1903 - 1906, 2005/07

https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.74.1903

The pressure dependences of the antiferromagnetic and superconducting transition temperatures have been investigated by ac heat capacity measurement under high pressures for the heavy-fermion superconductor CePtSi without inversion symmetry in the tetragonal structure. The Nel temperature = 2.2 K decreases with increasing pressure and becomes zero at the critical pressure 0.6 GPa. On the other hand, the superconducting phase exists in a wider pressure region from ambient pressure to about 1.5 GPa. The pressure phase diagram of CePtSi is thus very unique and has never been reported before for other heavy fermion superconductors.

Two critical pressure in heavy fermion superconductor CePtSi

Tateiwa, Naoyuki; Haga, Yoshinori; Matsuda, Tatsuma; Ikeda, Shugo; Yasuda, Takashi*; Takeuchi, Tetsuya*; Settai, Rikio*; Onuki, Yoshichika

no journal, , 

Last year, Bauer et al. reported the co-existence of the superconductivity ( = 0.75 K) and antiferromagnetism (= 2.2 K) in CePtSi which has no inversion center in the crystal structure. We have investigated the pressure dependence of the antiferromagnetic and superconducting transition temperatures by ac heat capacity measurement. The Neel temperature decreases with increasing pressure and becomes zero at the critical pressure 0.6 GPa. On the other hand, the superconducting phase exists in a wider pressure region from ambient pressure to about 1.5 GPa, which is far above . The pressure phase diagram of CePtSi is thus very unique and has never been reported before for other heavy fermion superconductors.