Neutron diffraction study on the deuterium composition of nickel deuteride at high temperatures and high pressures

Saito, Hiroyuki*; Machida, Akihiko*; Hattori, Takanori; Sano, Asami; Funakoshi, Kenichi*; Sato, Toyoto*; Orimo, Shinichi*; Aoki, Katsutoshi*

Physica B; Condensed Matter, 587, p.412153_1 - 412153_6, 2020/06

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2020.412153

The site occupancy of deuterium (D) atoms in face-centered-cubic nickel (fcc Ni) was measured along a cooling path from 1073 to 300 K at an initial pressure of 3.36 GPa via in situ neutron powder diffraction. Deuterium atoms predominantly occupy the octahedral (O) sites and slightly occupy the tetrahedral (T) sites of the fcc metal lattice. The O-site occupancy increases from 0.4 to 0.85 as the temperature is lowered from 1073 to 300 K. Meanwhile, the T-site occupancy remains c.a. 0.02. The temperature-independent behavior of the T-site occupancy is unusual, and its process is not yet understood. From the linear relation between the expanded lattice volume and D content, a D-induced volume expansion of 2.09(13) atom was obtained. This value is in agreement with the values of 2.14-2.2 atom previously reported for Ni and Ni Fe alloy.

Applicability and limitations of analysis transformed from the inelastic neutron scattering data

Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Kikuchi, Tatsuya*; Kawakita, Yukinobu

Physica B; Condensed Matter, 567, p.61 - 64, 2019/08

BB2018-0571.pdf:1.79MB

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2019.01.002

Recently, we reported the phonon dynamical study of a polycrystalline NaI by using the dynamical structure factor in real-space transformed from the inelastic neutron scattering (INS) data. Our study has shown that the INS experiments under the conventional condition Q 5 can provide us a meaningful information on the phonon dynamics at around the first nearest neighbor distance on accepting the worse real-space resolution. These results suggest the possibility that a large amount of data which were previously obtained can be effectively reused. In this study, we will examine both the applicability and limitations of analysis for various types of materials whose INS data were obtained at the Fermi chopper spectrometer 4SEASONS in J-PARC.

Background issues encountered by cold-neutron chopper spectrometer AMATERAS

Kikuchi, Tatsuya*; Nakajima, Kenji; Kawamura, Seiko; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Wakai, Daisuke*; Aoyama, Kazuhiro*; Iwahashi, Takaaki*; Kambara, Wataru*

Physica B; Condensed Matter, 564, p.45 - 53, 2019/07

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2019.02.015

Details of the background, that is, unwanted signals accumulated by the data acquisition system of neutron instruments, observed by the cold-neutron chopper spectrometer AMATERAS installed at the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility at J-PARC are reported. In the design phase of AMATERAS, we carefully considered the achievement of high signal-to-noise ratio, and possible countermeasures were implemented. Actually, recent scientific outputs from AMATERAS indicates that the spectrometer is one of excellent neutron instruments with low background. In spite of that, in nine years of AMATERAS operation, we have encountered unwanted signals due to various reasons, including gamma-rays emitted at materials on or near the beam line including the sample itself, scattered neutrons from the beam line devices, air scattering, electronic noise in data acquisition system, cosmic rays, T0 burst, and other unknown sources. In this report, we discuss the background observed by AMATERAS, especially in the conditions of without samples, comprehensively. The possible sources of these signals and the countermeasures considered against the above sources are discussed, which may be helpful to those who are engaged in other existing or planned neutron-scattering instruments.

Study on use of superconducting magnet and first inelastic neutron scattering experiment under magnetic field at 4SEASONS spectrometer

Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Ishikado, Motoyuki*; Kira, Hiroshi*; Kaneko, Koji; Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Kamazawa, Kazuya*; Inamura, Yasuhiro; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Iida, Kazuki*; Murai, Naoki; et al.

Physica B; Condensed Matter, 556, p.26 - 30, 2019/03

BB2018-0570.pdf:2.17MB

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2018.11.065

High-energy magnetic excitations in lightly oxygen-doped lanthanum nickel oxides

Nakajima, Kenji; Kajimoto, Ryoichi

Physica B; Condensed Matter, 551, p.142 - 145, 2018/12

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2017.12.015

Performances of oscillating radial collimator for the Fermi chopper spectrometer 4SEASONS at J-PARC

Nakamura, Mitsutaka; Kambara, Wataru*; Iida, Kazuki*; Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Kamazawa, Kazuya*; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Ishikado, Motoyuki*; Aoyama, Kazuhiro*

Physica B; Condensed Matter, 551, p.480 - 483, 2018/12

BB2017-0466.pdf:0.78MB

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2018.05.028

Recently there has been an increasing need for inelastic neutron scattering experiments under some special environments such as magnetic fields, pressure and high temperatures. In order to obtain high quality data, the unnecessary scattering caused by sample environmental apparatus should be suppressed as much as possible. We have developed an oscillating radial collimator with a view to satisfying users' needs, which is specialized for the Fermi chopper spectrometer 4SEASONS at J-PARC.4SEASONS provides relatively high incident energies, and thus we chose hydrogen free metal sheets as the collimator blades. The control system of this oscillating radial collimator enables us to flexibly tune the oscillating pattern, such as the oscillating speed and oscillating angle. In this presentation, we report the performances and remaining issues of the newly developed oscillating radial collimator for 4SEASONS.

Testing of time-of-flight neutron diffraction imaging using a high-resolution scintillator detector with wavelength-shifting fibers

Kawasaki, Takuro; Nakamura, Tatsuya; Gong, W.*; Oikawa, Kenichi

Physica B; Condensed Matter, 551, p.460 - 463, 2018/12

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2018.01.067

Effect of upstream beam collimation on neutron phase imaging with a Talbot-Lau interferometer at the RADEN beam line in J-PARC

Seki, Yoshichika; Shinohara, Takenao; Ueno, Wakana; Parker, J. D.*; Matsumoto, Yoshihiro*

Physica B; Condensed Matter, 551, p.512 - 516, 2018/12

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2018.03.003

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Effect of gauge volume on strain measurement in rock materials using time-of-flight neutron diffraction

Abe, Jun*; Sekine, Kotaro*; Harjo, S.; Kawasaki, Takuro; Aizawa, Kazuya

Physica B; Condensed Matter, 551, p.283 - 286, 2018/12

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2018.01.062

Magnetic excitations in the orbital disordered phase of MnVO

Matsuura, Keisuke*; Sagayama, Hajime*; Uehara, Amane*; Nii, Yoichi*; Kajimoto, Ryoichi; Kamazawa, Kazuya*; Ikeuchi, Kazuhiko*; Ji, S.*; Abe, Nobuyuki*; Arima, Takahisa*

Physica B; Condensed Matter, 536, p.372 - 376, 2018/05

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physb.2017.09.085