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山口 雄司; 新倉 潤*; 水野 るり恵*; 反保 元伸*; 原田 正英; 河村 成肇*; 梅垣 いづみ*; 竹下 聡史*; 羽賀 勝洋
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 567, p.165801_1 - 165801_11, 2025/10
被引用回数：0 パーセンタイル：0.00試料放射化計算コードの開発の一環として、新規実験データを取得してモンテカルロシミュレーションモデルを検証するために、負ミュオン原子核捕獲における放射性核種生成確率を測定した。
Al、
Si、
Co、Ta標的を用いて放射化法により取得した確率は、既存の実験データでは困難な物理過程に対するモデルの検証を可能にするものである。測定した確率と計算データとを比較することで、計算が放射化見積もりにおいておよそ安全側にあることがわかった。一方で、核異性体の生成過程や多数の中性子放出及び陽子が関与する粒子放出に起因する放射性核種の生成過程の記述を改良する必要があることもわかった。これらの成果は、シミュレーションモデル改良の手がかりとなる。
牧村 俊助*; 的場 史朗*; 砂川 光*; 直江 崇; 涌井 隆; 石田 卓*; 松原 綱之*; 深尾 祥紀*; 高橋 仁*; 渡邉 丈晃*; et al.
Proceedings of 71st ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics workshop on High-Intensity and High-Brightness Hadron Beams (HB2025) (Internet), p.359 - 363, 2025/10
現代の陽子加速器では、ターゲット、ビームウィンドウ、ビームダンプといったビーム遮断装置の強烈なビーム照射下における耐久性が、より高いビーム出力の達成を阻害する重要な要因となっている。大強度陽子加速器施設(J-PARC)における二次粒子生成ターゲットとビームウィンドウが直面する課題と、それらの課題を克服するために行われた開発について紹介する。
下村 浩一郎*; 幸田 章宏*; Pant, A. D.*; 砂川 光*; 藤森 寛*; 梅垣 いづみ*; 中村 惇平*; 藤原 理賀; 反保 元伸*; 河村 成肇*; et al.
Interactions (Internet), 245(1), p.31_1 - 31_6, 2024/12
J-PARC Muon Facility: MUSE (Muon Science Establishment) is responsible for the inter-university user program and the operation, maintenance, and construction of the muon beamlines, namely D-line, S-line, U-line, and H-line, along with the muon source at J-PARC Materials and Life Science Facility (MLF). In this paper, recent developments are briefly presented.
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(SrAl
TaO)
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伊藤 孝; 髭本 亘; 幸田 章宏*; 中村 惇平*; 下村 浩一郎*
Interactions (Internet), 245(1), p.25_1 - 25_7, 2024/12
We report on muon spin relaxation (
SR) measurements in a mixed perovskite compound, (LaAlO)
(SrAlTaO) with (LSAT), which is widely used as a single-crystalline substrate for thin film deposition. In zero applied field (ZF), muon depolarization due to the distribution of nuclear dipole fields was observed in the temperature range from 4 K to 270 K. Interestingly, SR time spectra in ZF maintained a Gaussian-like feature over the entire range, while the depolarization rate exhibited a monotonic decrease with increasing temperature. This behavior may be attributed to the thermally activated diffusion of muons between a few adjacent sites within a confined space of the angstrom scale, where the motionally averaged local field that each muon experiences can remain non-zero and result in maintaining the Gaussian-like line shape. The spatial distribution of electrostatic potential at lattice interstices evaluated via density functional theory calculations suggests that such a restriction of muon diffusion paths can be caused by the random distribution of cations with different nominal valences in the mixed perovskite lattice.
Sm synchrotron-radiation-based M
ssbauer and SR studies of SmRu
Ge
筒井 智嗣; 伊藤 孝; 中村 仁*; 吉田 実生*; 小林 義男*; 依田 芳卓*; 中村 惇平*; 幸田 章宏*; 東中 隆二*; 青木 大*; et al.
Interactions (Internet), 245(1), p.55_1 - 55_9, 2024/12
Sm SR-based Mssbauer and muon spin relaxation (SR) spectroscopies have been applied to SmRuGe. The temperature dependence of the Sm SR-based Mssbauer spectra in the paramagnetic state implies the presence of dynamical nuclear Zeeman and/or quadrupole interactions. The time differential SR spectra also exhibit a marked temperature dependence in the paramagnetic state, indicating the presence of magnetic fluctuation in SmRuGe at least. These results in the present work infer that the dynamical hyperfine interactions observed using the mutually complementary spectroscopic methods are connected with the mechanism of the heavy fermion behavior in SmRuGe.
二宮 和彦*; 久保 謙哉*; 稲垣 誠*; 吉田 剛*; 竹下 聡史*; 反保 元伸*; 下村 浩一郎*; 河村 成肇*; Strasser, P.*; 三宅 康博*; et al.
Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 333(7), p.3445 - 3450, 2024/07
被引用回数：1 パーセンタイル：30.56(Chemistry, Analytical)A novel nondestructive light element analysis method for bulk materials using muon beams was demonstrated. This method is based on the lifetime measurement of muons in a material and performed by measuring muon-decay electrons and identifying elements using the atomic number based on muon lifetimes. Muon irradiation on pure iron and two steel samples with known carbon contents was conducted to prepare a calibration curve for the quantitative analysis. We also performed a muon lifetime measurement for a Japanese sword and successfully determined its carbon content as 0.51 wt% using the calibration curve, without sample destruction.
伊藤 孝; 門野 良典*
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 93(4), p.044602_1 - 044602_7, 2024/04
被引用回数：5 パーセンタイル：72.89(Physics, Multidisciplinary)We propose a model to describe the fluctuations in the internal magnetic field due to ion dynamics observed in muon spin relaxation (
SR) by an Edwards-Anderson-type autocorrelation function that separates the quasi-static and dynamic components of the correlation by the parameter 
(where 
). Our Monte Carlo simulations for this model showed that the time evolution of muon spin polarization deviates significantly from the Kubo-Toyabe function. To further validate the model, the results of simulations were compared with the SR spectra observed in a hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite FAPbI [with FA referring to HC(NH
)], where local field fluctuations associated with the rotational motion of FA molecules and quasi-static fields from the PbI lattice are presumed to coexist. The least-squares curve fitting showed reasonable agreement with the model with 
, and the fluctuation frequency of the dynamical component was obtained. This result opens the door to the possibility of experimentally distinguishing fluctuations due to the dynamics of ions around muons from those due to the self-diffusion of muons. On the other hand, it suggests the need to carefully consider the spin relaxation function when applying SR to the issue of ion dynamics.
CoSi山内 宏樹; Sari, D. P.*; 安井 幸夫*; 坂倉 輝俊*; 木村 宏之*; 中尾 朗子*; 大原 高志; 本田 孝志*; 樹神 克明; 井川 直樹; et al.
Physical Review Research (Internet), 6(1), p.013144_1 - 013144_9, 2024/02
-Mn-type family alloys Mn
have three-dimensional antiferromagnetic (AFM) corner-shared triangular network. The antiferromagnet MnRhSi shows magnetic short-range order (SRO) over a wide temperature range of approximately 500 K above the N
el temperature 
= 190 K. MnCoSi has the smallest lattice parameter and the lowest in the family compounds. The quantum critical point (QCP) from AFM to the quantum paramagnetic state is expected near a cubic lattice parameter of 6.15 
of MnCoSi is only 140 K, quantum critical behavior is observed in MnCoSi as the enhancement of the electronic specific heat coefficient 
. We study how the magnetic SRO appears in MnCoSi by using neutron scattering, SR, and physical property measurements. The experimental results show that the neutron scattering intensity of the magnetic SRO does not change much regardless of the suppressed magnetic moment in the long-range magnetic ordered state compared to those of MnRhSi. The initial asymmetry drop ratio of SR above becomes small, and the magnetic SRO temperature 
is suppressed to 240 K. The results suggest that the MnCoSi is close to the QCP in the Mn system.
伊藤 孝; 髭本 亘; 下村 浩一郎*
Physical Review B, 108(22), p.224301_1 - 224301_11, 2023/12
被引用回数：6 パーセンタイル：57.13(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)In positive muon spin rotation and relaxation (SR) spectroscopy, positive muons () implanted into solid oxides are conventionally treated as immobile spin-probes at interstitial sites below room temperature. This is because each is thought to be tightly bound to an oxygen atom in the host lattice to form a muonic analogue of the hydroxy group. On the basis of this concept, anomalies in SR spectra observed in oxides have been attributed in most cases to the intrinsic properties of host materials. On the other hand, global diffusion with an activation energy of 
0.1~eV has been reported in some chemically-substituted perovskite oxides at cryogenic temperatures, although the reason for the small activation energy despite the formation of the strong O bond has not yet been quantitatively understood. In this study, we investigated interstitial diffusion in the perovskite oxide lattice using KTaO cubic perovskite as a model system. We used the SR method and density functional theory calculations along with the harmonic transition state theory to study this phenomenon both experimentally and theoretically. Experimental activation energies for global diffusion obtained below room temperature were less than a quarter of the calculated classical potential barrier height for a bottleneck transfer path. The reduction in the effective barrier height could be explained by the harmonic transition state theory with a zero-point energy correction; a significant difference in zero-point energies for at the positions in the O bonding equilibrium state and a bond-breaking transition state was the primary cause of the reduction. This suggests that the assumption of immobile in solid oxides is not always satisfied since such a significant decrease in diffusion barrier height can also occur in other oxides.
美崎 慧*; 三輪 寛子*; 伊藤 孝; 吉田 健文*; 長谷川 慎吾*; 中村 由紀奈*; 徳竹 駿太*; 高畠 萌*; 下村 浩一郎*; Chun, W.-J.*; et al.
ACS Catalysis, 13(18), p.12281 - 12287, 2023/09
被引用回数：7 パーセンタイル：44.98(Chemistry, Physical)The direct alkylation of benzenes with simple alkanes is one of the ideal processes for the production of alkylbenzenes. We demonstrated that Pd nanoparticles on the outer surface of H-ZSM-5 are efficient catalysts for direct alkylation. The reaction proceeds through the activation of an alkane on the acid sites present inside the zeolite pores. This process is followed by the nucleophilic addition of an arene to the activated alkane. The spillover of the abstracted hydrogen atoms from the acid sites to the Pd nanoparticles on the outer surface accelerates recombination to H. A maximum toluene conversion of 58.5% and selectivity of 95.6% for the alkylated products are achieved when toluene is reacted with 
-heptane. 
-selective alkylation is achieved, due to the effect of the pore size of H-ZSM-5. The SR study of muonium, a pseudo-isotope of hydrogen, in aluminosilicates suggested that the formation of atomic hydrogen is possible and its lifetime is in the sub-microsecond range or longer, which is long enough for chemical reactions.
inferred from muon study門野 良典*; 平石 雅俊*; 岡部 博孝*; 幸田 章宏*; 伊藤 孝
Journal of Physics; Condensed Matter, 35(28), p.285503_1 - 285503_13, 2023/07
被引用回数：1 パーセンタイル：6.90(Physics, Condensed Matter)Magnesium hydride has great potential as a solid hydrogen (H) storage material because of its high H storage capacity of 7.6 wt%. However, its slow hydrogenation and dehydrogenation kinetics and the high temperature of 300 
C required for decomposition are major obstacles to small-scale applications such as automobiles. The local electronic structure of interstitial H in MgH is an important fundamental knowledge in solving this problem, which has been studied mainly based on density functional theory (DFT). However, few experimental studies have been performed to assess the results of DFT calculations. We have therefore introduced muon (Mu) as pseudo-H into MgH and investigated the corresponding interstitial H states by analyzing their electronic and dynamical properties in detail. As a result, we observed multiple Mu states similar to those observed in wide-gap oxides, and found that their electronic states can be attributed to relaxed-excited states associated with donor/acceptor levels predicted by the recently proposed ambipolarity model. This provides an indirect support for the DFT calculations on which the model is based via the donor/acceptor levels. An important implication of the muon results for improved hydrogen kinetics is that dehydrogenation, serving as a reduction for hydrides, stabilises the interstitial H
state.
中村 惇平*; 川北 至信; 岡部 博孝*; Li, B.*; 下村 浩一郎*; 末益 崇*
Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, 175, p.111199_1 - 111199_8, 2023/04
被引用回数：3 パーセンタイル：17.79(Chemistry, Multidisciplinary)Muon spin rotation (SR) experiments were performed to directly investigate the temperature dependence of the short-range order or correlations of chromium spins in the paramagnetic phase of AgCrSe. The detailed investigation of the SR spectra over a wide temperature range from low to high temperatures revealed that the short-range spin correlations developed below about 184 K. It also confirmed no short-range correlations at high temperatures, which had been controversial in previous quasi-elastic neutron scattering studies. In addition, the muon spin relaxation was qualitatively changed and showed large missing asymmetry below about 89 K, where the correlation clearly implied short-range spin order. There could be a preparative phenomenon of the phase transition or an anisotropic short-range spin correlation.
奥村 拓馬*; 橋本 直; 他40名*
Physical Review Letters, 130(17), p.173001_1 - 173001_7, 2023/04
被引用回数：13 パーセンタイル：86.17(Physics, Multidisciplinary)To test bound-state quantum electrodynamics (BSQED) in the strong-field regime, we have performed high-precision X-ray spectroscopy of the 5
-4
and 5-4
transitions (BSQED contribution of 2.4 eV and 5.2 eV, respectively) of muonic neon atoms in the low-pressure gas phase without bound electrons. Muonic atoms have been recently proposed as an alternative to few-electron high-Z ions for BSQED tests by focusing on circular Rydberg states where nuclear contributions are negligibly small. We determined the 
-
transition energy to be 6297.08 
0.04 (stat.) 0.13 (syst.) eV using superconducting transition-edge sensor microcalorimeters (5.2-5.5 eV FWHM resolution), which agrees well with the most advanced BSQED theoretical prediction of 6297.26 eV.
SR) methods伊藤 孝; 下村 浩一郎*
Hydrogenomics; The Science of Fully Utilizing Hydrogen (Internet), p.43 - 49, 2023/03
A brief introduction to the muon spin rotation, relaxation, and resonance (SR) methods is given for researchers and students involved in hydrogen science research. The text includes several examples of how the SR methods can be used to elucidate the behavior of hydrogen in materials.
下村 浩一郎*; 幸田 章宏*; Pant, A. D.*; 名取 寛顕*; 藤森 寛*; 梅垣 いづみ*; 中村 惇平*; 反保 元伸*; 河村 成肇*; 手島 菜月*; et al.
Journal of Physics; Conference Series, 2462, p.012033_1 - 012033_5, 2023/03
被引用回数：0 パーセンタイル：73.47(Physics, Applied)At J-PARC MUSE, since the SR2017 conference and up to FY2022, there have been several new developments at the facility, including the completion of a new experimental area S2 at the surface muon beamline S-line and the first muon beam extraction to the H1 area in the H-line, mainly to carry out high-statistics fundamental physics experiments. Several new studies are also underway, such as applying negative muon non-destructive elemental analysis to the analysis of samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu in the D2 area of the D-line. This paper reports on the latest status of MUSE.
; SR studies and charge-spin percolation modelSheng, Q.*; 金子 竜也*; Yamakawa, Kohtaro*; Guguchia, Z.*; Gong, Z.*; Zhao, G.*; Dai, G.*; Jin, C.*; Guo, S.*; Fu, L.*; et al.
Physical Review Research (Internet), 4(3), p.033172_1 - 033172_14, 2022/09
A pyrite system NiS
Se exhibits a bandwidth controlled Mott transition via (S,Se) substitutions in a two-step process: the antiferromagnetic insulator (AFI) to antiferromagnetic metal (AFM) transition at 
0.45 followed by the AFM to paramagnetic metal (PMM) transition at 1.0. Among a few other Mott systems which exhibit similar two-step transitions, Ni(S,Se) is of particular interest because a large intermediate AFM region in the phase diagram would provide unique opportunities to study the interplay between the spin and charge order. By comparing and combining our muon spin relaxation studies and previous neutron scattering studies, here we propose a picture where the spin order is maintained by the percolation of "nonmetallic" localized and dangling Ni moments surrounded by S, while the charge transition from AFI to AFM is caused by the percolation of the conducting paths generated by the Ni-Se-Ni bonds.
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quasikagome-lattice compound CeRhPdSn investigated using muon spin relaxation and neutron scatteringTripathi, R.*; Adroja, D. T.*; Ritter, C.*; Sharma, S.*; Yang, C.*; Hillier, A. D.*; Koza, M. M.*; Demmel, F.*; Sundaresan, A.*; Langridge, S.*; et al.
Physical Review B, 106(6), p.064436_1 - 064436_17, 2022/08
被引用回数：8 パーセンタイル：55.49(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)We present the results of muon spin relaxation (SR) and neutron scattering measurements on the Ce-based quasikagome lattice CeRhPdSn (
= 0.1 to 0.75). Our SR results reveal the absence of both static long-range magnetic order and spin freezing down to 0.05 K in the = 0.1 sample, which is consistent with neutron scattering results. The weak temperature-dependent plateaus of the dynamic spin fluctuations below 0.2 K in zero field together with its longitudinal-field (LF) dependence indicate the presence of dynamic spin fluctuations persisting even at 0.05 K without static magnetic order. We argue that such a behavior for = 0.1 can be attributed to a metallic spin-liquid-like ground state near the quantum critical point in the frustrated Kondo lattice. The LF-SR study suggests that the out of kagome plane spin fluctuations are responsible for the spin-liquid behavior.
中村 惇平*; 川北 至信; 下村 浩一郎*; 末益 崇*
Journal of Applied Physics, 131(19), P. 199901_1, 2022/05
In the paper "Hydrogen impurities in p-type semiconductors, GeS and GeTe." [J. Appl. Phys. 130, 195701 (2021)], typographical errors on page 195701-2 in the Introduction are corrected. The description that "The optical bandgap has been reported to be in the range of 0.3-0.7 eV" for GeTe is corrected to an appropriate range of 0.15-0.7 eV. In addition, for the description that "the band alignment for GeTe was determined using polarized Raman spectroscopy and," is corrected to "the band alignment for GeS was determined using optical absorption spectra and." In Results and Discussion. Equation (7) is corrected properly by adding the redundant Dirac constant in the rite hand side.
complex as a possible origin of localized electron behavior in hydrogen-irradiated SrTiO伊藤 孝
e-Journal of Surface Science and Nanotechnology (Internet), 20(3), p.128 - 134, 2022/05
A recent muon spin rotation (SR) study on a paramagnetic defect complex formed upon implantation of pseudo-proton into SrTiO is reviewed with a specific focus on the relation with experimental signatures of coexisting delocalized and localized electrons in hydrogen-irradiated metallic SrTiO films. The paramagnetic defect complex, composed of interstitial and Ti small polaron, is characterized by a small dissociation energy of about 30 meV. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations in the generalized gradient approximation (GGA) +
scheme for a corresponding hydrogen defect complex reveal that a thermodynamic donor level associated with electron transfer from an H
-Ti complex to the conduction band can form just below the conduction band minimum for realistic values. These findings suggest that the coexistence of delocalized and localized electrons can be realized in hydrogen-irradiated SrTiO in electron-rich conditions.
勅使河原 誠; 中村 充孝; 金正 倫計; 曽山 和彦
JAEA-Technology 2021-022, 208 Pages, 2022/02
JAEA-Technology-2021-022.pdf:14.28MB
J-PARCの定格出力1MWの物質・生命科学実験施設において、今後の具体的かつ現実的な高度化戦略を展開するため、線源性能に大きく影響する加速器技術(リニアックおよびRCS)、線源技術、中性子・ミュオン輸送技術、検出技術、そしてそれらが結実する中性子・ミュオン ビーム利用装置等の現状(所期設計値に対する到達度)について整理した。さらに、現状分析に基づき出力増強に向けた改良点等について報告する。
