原子力機構-東海タンデム加速器の現状

株本 裕史; 松田 誠; 中村 暢彦; 石崎 暢洋; 沓掛 健一; 乙川 義憲; 遊津 拓洋; 松井 泰; 中川 創平; 阿部 信市

Proceedings of 19th Annual Meeting of Particle Accelerator Society of Japan (インターネット), p.1109 - 1113, 2023/01

原子力機構-東海タンデム加速器施設は最高運転電圧が約18MVの大型静電加速器で、重イオンビーム等を用いた核物理,核化学,原子物理,材料照射などの各分野で利用されている。本発表では、2021年度における加速器の運転・整備状況およびビーム利用開発等について報告する。当施設では近年、運転中の放電が頻発するため、加速電圧を約15MVと以前よりも低く抑えている。これは加速電圧に対する絶縁性能が必要な機器類(セラミック製加速管や発電機駆動用アクリルシャフト等)が経年劣化してきているためと思われる。2021年度には低エネルギー側加速管7本(3.5MV相当)とアクリルシャフト2本の交換作業を行い、絶縁性能の回復を図った。2020年度にも同様の交換作業を行っており、全体的に経年劣化が進んでいると思われることから、今後は抜本的な対策を検討する必要があると考えている。また、当施設では、現在の施設のアップグレードを行い、後継となる加速器を導入する計画の立案を行っている。超伝導加速器の技術を使用し、高エネルギー・高強度の重イオンビーム等を発生させるものであり、こちらの概要についても併せて報告する。

The Damage analysis for irradiation tolerant spin-driven thermoelectric device based on single-crystalline YFeO/Pt heterostructures

家田 淳一; 岡安 悟; 針井 一哉*; 小畠 雅明; 吉井 賢資; 福田 竜生; 石田 真彦*; 齊藤 英治

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 58(8), p.1301106_1 - 1301106_6, 2022/08

https://doi.org/10.1109/TMAG.2022.3145888

スピンゼーベック効果(SSE)に基づくスピン駆動熱電(STE)デバイスと、熱源としての放射性同位元素の組み合わせは、宇宙探査機の電源などの応用における次世代の発電方法としての可能性を秘めている。しかし、スピン熱電デバイスの照射耐性を示す利用可能な知識は非常に限られている。重イオンビーム加速器と硬X線光電子分光法(HAXPES)測定を使用した分析を通じて、YFeO/Ptヘテロ構造に基づく典型的なSTEデバイスが高エネルギー重イオンビームの照射に対する耐性を持つことを検証する。使用済み核燃料の表面から放出される核分裂生成物による累積損傷をモデル化した320MeVの金イオンビームを使用し、線量レベルを変えることにより、SSE要素の熱電および磁気特性がイオン/cmフルエンスまでのイオン照射線量の影響を受けず、イオントラックがサンプル表面をほぼ完全に覆う約イオン/cmでSSE信号が消滅することを確認した。さらに、HAXPES測定は、YFeO/Pt界面への影響を理解するために実行した。HAXPES測定は、SSE信号を減少させる化学反応が照射線量の増加とともに強化されることを示唆している。過酷な環境使用に適用できるより優れたSTEデバイスを開発するために、YFeO/Ptで損傷分析の現在の理解を共有したい。

A Review of quarkonia under strong magnetic fields

岩崎 幸生*; 岡 眞; 鈴木 渓

European Physical Journal A, 57(7), p.222_1 - 222_14, 2021/07

https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/s10050-021-00533-5

クォーコニウムとは、チャームクォークやボトムクォークのような「重い」クォークとその反クォークから構成される中間子であり、水素原子やポジトロニウムなどの原子物理との類似点を持ちつつも、量子色力学(QCD)由来の性質も併せ持つ興味深い系である。ハドロン物理における典型的なスケールに匹敵する強磁場は、相対論的重イオン衝突実験や強磁場中性子星(マグネター)と関連して注目を集めている。本論文は、強磁場中のクォーコニウムの性質についてまとめたレビュー論文である。磁場中のクォーコニウムにおける特徴的な物理現象として、(1)異なるスピン固有状態間の混合効果、(2)クォーク自由度に対するランダウ準位とハドロン波動関数の変形現象、(3)クォーク・反クォーク間ポテンシャルの修正、(4)運動的シュタルク効果について解説を行う。また、磁場中のクォーコニウムを記述するための理論手法のまとめとして、(1)構成子クォーク模型、(2)有効ラグランジアンによる手法、(3)QCD和則、(4)ホログラフィックQCDについて解説する。さらに、有限温度,有限密度,有限渦度などの磁場以外の外場効果による影響についても述べる。付録において磁場中のクォーコニウムの典型的な質量スペクトルや波動関数を例示する。

Production of and mesons in UU collisions at GeV

Acharya, U.*; 長谷川 勝一; 今井 憲一*; 永宮 正治*; 佐甲 博之; 佐藤 進; 谷田 聖; PHENIX Collaboration*; 他397名*

Physical Review C, 102(6), p.064905_1 - 064905_13, 2020/12

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.102.064905

The PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider measured and mesons at midrapidity in UU collisions at GeV in a wide transverse momentum range. Measurements were performed in the decay modes. A strong suppression of and meson production at high transverse momentum was observed in central UU collisions relative to binary scaled results. Yields of and mesons measured in UU collisions show similar suppression pattern to the ones measured in AuAu collisions at GeV for similar numbers of participant nucleons. The / ratios do not show dependence on centrality or transverse momentum, and are consistent with previously measured values in hadron-hadron, hadron-nucleus, nucleus-nucleus, and collisions.

Tolerance of spin-Seebeck thermoelectricity against irradiation by swift heavy ions

岡安 悟; 針井 一哉*; 小畠 雅明; 吉井 賢資; 福田 竜生; 石田 真彦*; 家田 淳一; 齊藤 英治

Journal of Applied Physics, 128(8), p.083902_1 - 083902_7, 2020/08

AA2020-0071.pdf:0.69MB

https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0014229

The ion-irradiation tolerance of thermoelectric devices based on the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) was investigated by using 320 MeV gold ion (Au) beams modeling cumulative damages due to fission products emitted from the surface of spent nuclear fuels. For this purpose, prototypical Pt/YFeO/GdGaO SSE elements were irradiated with varying the dose level at room temperature and measured the SSE voltage of them. We confirmed that the thermoelectric and magnetic properties of the SSE elements are not affected by the ion-irradiation up to ions/cm fluence and that the SSE signal is extinguished around ions/cm, in which the ion tracks almost fully cover the sample surface. We also performed the hard X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (HAXPES) measurements to understand the effects at the interface of Pt/YFeO. The HAXPES measurements suggest that the chemical reaction that diminishes the SSE signals is enhanced with the increase of the irradiation dose. The present study demonstrates that SSE-based devices are applicable to thermoelectric generation even in harsh environments for a long time period.

Beam energy and centrality dependence of direct-photon emission from ultrarelativistic heavy-ion collisions

Adare, A.*; 長谷川 勝一; 今井 憲一; 永宮 正治*; 佐甲 博之; 佐藤 進; 谷田 聖; PHENIX Collaboration*; 他666名*

Physical Review Letters, 123(2), p.022301_1 - 022301_10, 2019/07

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.022301

The PHENIX collaboration presents first measurements of low-momentum (0.4 3 GeV/) direct-photon yields from AuAu collisions at = 39 and 62.4 GeV. For both beam energies the direct-photon yields are substantially enhanced with respect to expectations from prompt processes, similar to the yields observed in AuAu collisions at = 200. Analyzing the photon yield as a function of the experimental observable reveals that the low-momentum (1 GeV/) direct-photon yield is a smooth function of and can be well described as proportional to with 1.25. This new scaling behavior holds for a wide range of beam energies at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider and Large Hadron Collider, for centrality selected samples, as well as for different, collision systems. At a given beam energy the scaling also holds for high (5 GeV/) but when results from different collision energies are compared, an additional -dependent multiplicative factor is needed to describe the integrated-direct-photon yield.

Measurement of two-particle correlations with respect to second- and third-order event planes in AuAu collisions at GeV

Adare, A.*; 長谷川 勝一; 今井 憲一; 永宮 正治*; 佐甲 博之; 佐藤 進; 谷田 聖; PHENIX Collaboration*; 他451名*

Physical Review C, 99(5), p.054903_1 - 054903_29, 2019/05

AA2019-0567.pdf:3.42MB

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.99.054903

We present measurements of azimuthal correlations of charged hadron pairs in GeV AuAu collisions after subtracting an underlying event using a model that includes higher-order azimuthal anisotropy , , and . After subtraction, the away-side ( of the highest transverse-momentum trigger ( GeV/) correlations is suppressed compared to that of correlations measured in collisions. At the lowest associated particle , the away-side shape and yield are modified. These observations are consistent with the scenario of radiative-jet energy loss. For the lowest- trigger correlations, an away-side yield exists and we explore the dependence of the shape of the away-side within the context of an underlying-event model. Correlations are also studied differentially versus event-plane angle . The angular correlations show an asymmetry when selecting the sign of the trigger-particle azimuthal angle with respect to the event plane. This asymmetry and the measured suppression of the pair yield out of plane is consistent with a path-length-dependent energy loss. No dependence can be resolved within experimental uncertainties.

Creation of quark-gluon plasma droplets with three distinct geometries

Aidala, C.*; 長谷川 勝一; 今井 憲一; 佐甲 博之; 佐藤 進; 谷田 聖; PHENIX Collaboration*; 他312名*

Nature Physics, 15(3), p.214 - 220, 2019/03

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-018-0360-0

Experimental studies of the collisions of heavy nuclei at relativistic energies have established the properties of the quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a state of hot, dense nuclear matter in which quarks and gluons are not bound into hadrons. In this state, matter behaves as a nearly inviscid fluid that efficiently translates initial spatial anisotropies into correlated momentum anisotropies among the particles produced, creating a common velocity field pattern known as collective flow. In recent years, comparable momentum anisotropies have been measured in small-system proton-proton and proton-nucleus (p+A) collisions, despite expectations that the volume and lifetime of the medium produced would be too small to form a QGP. Here we report on the observation of elliptic and triangular flow patterns of charged particles produced in proton-gold (p+Au), deuteron-gold (d+Au) and helium-gold (He+Au) collisions at a nucleon-nucleon centre-of-mass energy = 200 GeV. The unique combination of three distinct initial geometries and two flow patterns provides unprecedented model discrimination. Hydrodynamical models, which include the formation of a short-lived QGP droplet, provide the best simultaneous description of these measurements.

Low-momentum direct-photon measurement in Cu + Cu collisions at GeV

Adare, A.*; 長谷川 勝一; 今井 憲一; 永宮 正治; 佐甲 博之; 佐藤 進; 谷田 聖; PHENIX Collaboration*; 他448名*

Physical Review C, 98(5), p.054902_1 - 054902_11, 2018/11

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.98.054902

We have measured direct photons for GeV/ in minimum bias and 0% - 40% most central events at midrapidity for CuCu collisions at GeV. The contribution from quasi-real direct virtual photons has been determined as an excess over the known hadronic contributions in the mass distribution. A clear enhancement of photons over the binary scaled fit is observed for GeV/ in CuCu data. The spectra are consistent with the AuAu data covering a similar number of participants. The inverse slopes of the exponential fits to the excess after subtraction of the baseline are 28553(stat)57(syst)~MeV/ and 33372(stat)45(syst)~MeV/ for minimum bias and 0% - 40% most central events, respectively. The rapidity density, , of photons demonstrates the same power law as a function of observed in AuAu at the same collision energy.

Pseudorapidity dependence of particle production and elliptic flow in asymmetric nuclear collisions of +Al, +Au, +Au, and He+Au at = 200 GeV

Adare, A.*; 長谷川 勝一; 今井 憲一; 佐甲 博之; 佐藤 進; 谷田 聖; PHENIX Collaboration*; 他362名*

Physical Review Letters, 121(22), p.222301_1 - 222301_8, 2018/11

AA2018-0715.pdf:0.62MB

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.222301

Asymmetric nuclear collisions of +Al, +Au, +Au, and He+Au at = 200 GeV provide an excellent laboratory for understanding particle production, as well as exploring interactions among these particles after their initial creation in the collision. We present measurements of charged hadron production in all such collision systems over a broad pseudorapidity range and as a function of collision multiplicity. A simple wounded quark model is remarkably successful at describing the full data set. We also measure the elliptic flow over a similarly broad pseudorapidity range. These measurements provide key constraints on models of particle emission and their translation into flow.