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MnShimizu, Kazuyuki*; Nishimura, Katsuhiko*; Matsuda, Kenji*; Akamaru, Satoshi*; Nunomura, Norio*; Namiki, Takahiro*; Tsuchiya, Taiki*; Lee, S.*; Higemoto, Wataru; Tsuru, Tomohito; et al.
Scripta Materialia, 245, p.116051_1 - 116051_6, 2024/05
Times Cited Count：0Hydrogen at the mass ppm level causes hydrogen embrittlement in metallic materials, but it is extremely difficult to experimentally elucidate the hydrogen trapping sites. We have taken advantage of the fact that positive muons can act as light isotopes of hydrogen to study the trapping state of hydrogen in matter. Zero-field muon spin relaxation experiments and the density functional theory (DFT) calculations for hydrogen trapping energy are carried out for AlMn. The DFT calculations for hydrogen in AlMn have found four possible trapping sites in which the hydrogen trapping energies are 0.168 (site 1), 0.312 (site 2), 0.364 (site 3), and 0.495 (site 4) in the unit of eV/atom. Temperature variations of the deduced dipole field width (
) indicated step-like changes at temperatures, 94, 193, and 236 K. Considering their site densities, the observed change temperatures are interpreted by trapping muons at sites 1, 3, and 4.
Kusano, Kanya*; Ichimoto, Kiyoshi*; Ishii, Mamoru*; Miyoshi, Yoshizumi*; Yoden, Shigeo*; Akiyoshi, Hideharu*; Asai, Ayumi*; Ebihara, Yusuke*; Fujiwara, Hitoshi*; Goto, Tadanori*; et al.
Earth, Planets and Space (Internet), 73(1), p.159_1 - 159_29, 2021/12
Times Cited Count：6 Percentile：49.29(Geosciences, Multidisciplinary)The PSTEP is a nationwide research collaboration in Japan and was conducted from April 2015 to March 2020, supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan. It has made a significant progress in space weather research and operational forecasts, publishing over 500 refereed journal papers and organizing four international symposiums, various workshops and seminars, and summer school for graduate students at Rikubetsu in 2017. This paper is a summary report of the PSTEP and describes the major research achievements it produced.
-ray spectroscopy of 
Mg via knockout reactions at intermediate energiesMomiyama, Satoru*; Doornenbal, P.*; Scheit, H.*; Takeuchi, Satoshi*; Niikura, Megumi*; Aoi, Nori*; Li, K.*; Matsushita, Masafumi*; Steppenbeck, D.*; Wang, H.*; et al.
Physical Review C, 96(3), p.034328_1 - 034328_8, 2017/09
Times Cited Count：6 Percentile：46.71(Physics, Nuclear)no abstracts in English
Fe
Mo
O (0 
x 1)Yoshida, Koji*; Ikeuchi, Shinya*; Shimizu, Hajime*; Okayasu, Satoru; Suzuki, Takashi*
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 80(4), p.044716_1 - 044716_4, 2011/04
Times Cited Count：5 Percentile：38.84(Physics, Multidisciplinary)We studied systematic changes of the structural, electric, and magnetic properties in SrFeMoO with 0 x 1, which bridges between a half-metallic double perovskite SrFeMoO (x = 0) and an antiferromagnetic metal SrFeO
(= SrFeO: x = 1). The lattice volume at room temperature linearly decreases with x. The decline steeply enhances around x = 0.5, which is accompanied with a symmetry change from a tetragonal to a cubic crystal structure. In the same composition, we also found changes in the electronic ground state from a metal to an insulator and in the magnetic one from ferromagnetism to paramagnetism. These results indicate the strong correlation among the crystal structure, itinerant electrons and occurrence of ferromagnetic state in the double perovskite. In addition, the value of the critical composition could reflect peculiar physical changes with x.
Tobita, Kenji; Nishio, Satoshi*; Enoeda, Mikio; Nakamura, Hirofumi; Hayashi, Takumi; Asakura, Nobuyuki; Uto, Hiroyasu; Tanigawa, Hiroyasu; Nishitani, Takeo; Isono, Takaaki; et al.
JAEA-Research 2010-019, 194 Pages, 2010/08
JAEA-Research-2010-019-01.pdf:48.47MBJAEA-Research-2010-019-02.pdf:19.4MB
This report describes the results of the conceptual design study of the SlimCS fusion DEMO reactor aiming at demonstrating fusion power production in a plant scale and allowing to assess the economic prospects of a fusion power plant. The design study has focused on a compact and low aspect ratio tokamak reactor concept with a reduced-sized central solenoid, which is novel compared with previous tokamak reactor concept such as SSTR (Steady State Tokamak Reactor). The reactor has the main parameters of a major radius of 5.5 m, aspect ratio of 2.6, elongation of 2.0, normalized beta of 4.3, fusion out put of 2.95 GW and average neutron wall load of 3 MW/m
. This report covers various aspects of design study including systemic design, physics design, torus configuration, blanket, superconducting magnet, maintenance and building, which were carried out increase the engineering feasibility of the concept.
Tobita, Kenji; Nishio, Satoshi; Enoeda, Mikio; Kawashima, Hisato; Kurita, Genichi; Tanigawa, Hiroyasu; Nakamura, Hirofumi; Honda, Mitsuru; Saito, Ai*; Sato, Satoshi; et al.
Nuclear Fusion, 49(7), p.075029_1 - 075029_10, 2009/07
Times Cited Count：139 Percentile：97.7(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)Recent design study on SlimCS focused mainly on the torus configuration including blanket, divertor, materials and maintenance scheme. For vertical stability of elongated plasma and high beta access, a sector-wide conducting shell is arranged in between replaceable and permanent blanket. The reactor adopts pressurized-water-cooled solid breeding blanket. Compared with the previous advanced concept with supercritical water, the design options satisfying tritium self-sufficiency are relatively scarce. Considered divertor technology and materials, an allowable heat load to the divertor plate should be 8 MW/m or lower, which can be a critical constraint for determining a handling power of DEMO (a combination of alpha heating power and external input power for current drive).
Oku, Takayuki; Yamada, Satoru; Shinohara, Takenao; Suzuki, Junichi; Mishima, Kenji*; Hirota, Katsuya*; Sato, Hiromi*; Shimizu, Hirohiko
Physica B; Condensed Matter, 397(1-2), p.188 - 191, 2007/07
Times Cited Count：5 Percentile：27.11(Physics, Condensed Matter)We have studied a neutron polarization method by means of a quadrupole magnet. By passing through the aperture of the quadrupole magnet (QM), positive and negative polarity neutrons are accelerated in opposite directions and spatially separated due to the magnetic field gradient. Then, by extracting one spin component, we can obtain a highly polarized neutron beam. Since polarized neutrons do not interact with any substances in this method, we can obtain the polarized neutron beam free from neutron attenuation. As a result of a cold neutron beam polarization experiment by using the QM, we obtained extremely high neutron polarization degree P0.999. In this paper, we show some experimental results of the neutron polarization experiment and discuss the application of the QM-based polarizing device to neutron scattering experiments.
Kubo, Hirotaka; Sasaki, Akira; Moribayashi, Kengo; Higashijima, Satoru; Takenaga, Hidenobu; Shimizu, Katsuhiro; Nakano, Tomohide; Whiteford, A.*; Sugie, Tatsuo
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 363-365, p.1441 - 1445, 2007/06
Times Cited Count：6 Percentile：42.37(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)no abstracts in English
Oku, Takayuki; Iwase, Hiroki; Shinohara, Takenao; Yamada, Satoru; Hirota, Katsuya*; Koizumi, Satoshi; Suzuki, Junichi; Hashimoto, Takeji; Shimizu, Hirohiko
Journal of Applied Crystallography, 40(s1), p.s408 - s413, 2007/04
Times Cited Count：28 Percentile：89.64(Chemistry, Multidisciplinary)Measuring efficiency and/or angular resolution of small-angle neutron scattering experiments can be improved by focusing neutrons on a detector plane. Thus, a magnetic focusing lens (MNL) have been installed into the SANS instrument, SANS-J-II, of JRR-3 in AEA for the focusing-geometry SANS (FSANS) experiments. The MNL is an extended Halbach-type permanent sextupole magnet. The inner diameter and length of the MNL are 35 mm and 1200 mm, respectively. As the MNL functions as the focusing lens only for the polarized neutron with positive polarity, the incident neutron polarization is set positive by using the supermirror polarizer and the two-coil spin flipper. The intensity distribution of the neutrons focused by the MNL at the detector position was measured by using a high-resolution photomultiplier-based scintillation detector. In this paper, the neutron focusing property of the focusing setup is investigated, and the performance of the FSANS instrument is discussed.
Oku, Takayuki; Yamada, Satoru; Sasao, Hajime*; Suzuki, Junichi; Shinohara, Takenao*; Hirota, Katsuya*; Ikeda, Kazuaki*; Tsuzaki, Tsuyoshi*; Kiyanagi, Yoshiaki*; Furusaka, Michihiro*; et al.
Physica B; Condensed Matter, 385-386(2), p.1225 - 1228, 2006/11
Times Cited Count：10 Percentile：44.41(Physics, Condensed Matter)We have developed a magnetic neutron lens based on an extended Halbach-type permanent sextupole magnet with magnet pieces of NEOMAX-44H, -35EH and high saturation magnetization material, permendule. The aperture size of the magnet is 35 mm in diameter and the magnet length is 2,400 mm. The magnet generates a sextupole magnetic field 
with a gradient coefficient 
=10,600 T/m
inside the aperture, where 
is a distance from the magnet center axis. To prevent neutrons from hitting and reflecting at the inner surface of the magnet, the surface is covered with cadmium (Cd) sheets and also Cd pinhole slits with size of 30 mm in diameter are positioned in series inside the magnet aperture, resulting in the effective diameter of 30 mm. The neutron focusing property of the magnet is investigated by using pulsed polarized neutrons. The obtained results are discussed with the precise simulation results. Its application to the focusing-geometry small-angle neutron scattering experiments is also discussed.
Hamamoto, Shimpei; Iigaki, Kazuhiko; Shimizu, Atsushi; Sawahata, Hiroaki; Kondo, Makoto; Oyama, Sunao; Kawano, Shuichi; Kobayashi, Shoichi; Kawamoto, Taiki; Suzuki, Hisashi; et al.
JAEA-Technology 2006-030, 58 Pages, 2006/03
JAEA-Technology-2006-030.pdf:10.69MB
During normal operation of High Temperature engineering Test Reactor (HTTR) in Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), the reactivity is controlled by the Control Rods (CRs) system which consists of 32 CRs (16 pairs) and 16 Control Rod Drive Mechanisms (CRDMs). The CR system is located in stand-pipes accompanied by the Reserved Shutdown System (RSS). In the unlikely event that the CRs fail to be inserted, the RSS is provided to insert B
C/C pellets into the core. The RSS shall be designed so that the reactor should be held subcriticality from any operation condition by dropping in the pellets. The RSS consists of BC/C pellets, hoppers which contain the pellets, electric plug, driving mechanisms, guide tubes and so on. In accidents when the CRs cannot be inserted, an electric plug is pulled out by a motor and the absorber pellets fall into the core by gravity. A trouble, malfunction of one RSS out of sixteen, occurred during a series of the pre-start up checks of HTTR on February 21, 2005. We investigated the cause of the RSS trouble and took countermeasures to prevent the issue. As the result of investigation, the cause of the trouble was attributed to the following reason: In the motor inside, The Oil of grease of the multiplying gear flowed down from a gap of the oil seal which has been deformed and was mixed with abrasion powder of brake disk. Therefore the adhesive mixture prevented a motor from rotating.
Oku, Takayuki; Suzuki, Junichi; Sasao, Hajime*; Yamada, Satoru; Furusaka, Michihiro*; Adachi, Tomohiro*; Shinohara, Takenao*; Ikeda, Kazuaki*; Shimizu, Hirohiko
Physica B; Condensed Matter, 356(1-4), p.126 - 130, 2005/02
Times Cited Count：11 Percentile：45.41(Physics, Condensed Matter)We have developed a magnetic neutron lens (MNL) based on a sextupole magnet. A neutron beam, which is incident to the sextupole magnet, either converges or diverges depending on the neutron spin state. Small-angle neutron scattering in focusing geometry (FSANS) was proposed to improve the q-resolution and/or measuring efficiency. The MNL is considered to be the most suitable focusing device for FSANS experiments using a polarized neutron beam, since it focuses the polarized neutron beam free from neutron attenuation and scattering by substances. Recently, we have developed the MNLs with sufficiently large apertures and strong focusing power for FSANS experiments. In this study, we evaluate the focusing property of the MNLs for the polarized neutron beam, and performed FSANS experiments using the MNL. The obtained results are discussed.
CuHara, Keigo*; Adachi, Takeshi*; Akimune, Hidetoshi*; Daito, Izuru*; Fujimura, Hisako*; Fujita, Yoshitaka*; Fujiwara, Mamoru; Fushimi, Kenichi*; Hara, Kaoru*; Harakeh, M. N.*; et al.
Physical Review C, 68(6), p.064612_1 - 064612_9, 2003/12
Times Cited Count：11 Percentile：58.04(Physics, Nuclear)no abstracts in English
line spectral profile and emission process in the divertor region of JT-60UKumagai, Akira*; Kubo, Hirotaka; Takenaga, Hidenobu; Suzuki, Shingo; Shimizu, Katsuhiro; Asakura, Nobuyuki; Shimada, Michiya
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 42(5), p.529 - 543, 2000/05
Times Cited Count：13 Percentile：39.64(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)no abstracts in English
Kubo, Hirotaka; Higashijima, Satoru; Takenaga, Hidenobu; Kumagai, Akira*; Shimizu, Katsuhiro; Sugie, Tatsuo; Suzuki, Shingo; Sakasai, Akira; Asakura, Nobuyuki
NIFS-PROC-44, p.65 - 68, 2000/01
no abstracts in English
Suzuki, Shingo*; Shimizu, Katsuhiro; Kubo, Hirotaka; Shirai, Toshizo; Sakasai, Akira; Sugie, Tatsuo; Asakura, Nobuyuki
Europhysics Conference Abstracts, 23J, p.477 - 480, 1999/00
no abstracts in English
Kubo, Hirotaka; Higashijima, Satoru; Takenaga, Hidenobu; Shimizu, Katsuhiro; Kumagai, Akira*; Ishijima, Tatsuo*; Suzuki, Shingo*; Itami, Kiyoshi; Sugie, Tatsuo; Sakasai, Akira; et al.
Proc. of 1998 ICPP & 25th EPS Conf. on Contr. Fusion and Plasma Physics, 22C, p.427 - 430, 1998/00
no abstracts in English
Kubo, Hirotaka; Takenaga, Hidenobu; Sugie, Tatsuo; Higashijima, Satoru; Suzuki, Shingo*; Shimizu, Katsuhiro; Sakasai, Akira; Hosogane, Nobuyuki
24th EPS Conf. on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, 21A(2), p.509 - 512, 1997/00
no abstracts in English
Minato, Kazuo; Ogawa, Toru; Kashimura, Satoru; Fukuda, Kosaku; ; ;
J. Mater. Sci., 26, p.2379 - 2388, 1991/00
Times Cited Count：15 Percentile：61.54(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)no abstracts in English
Minato, Kazuo; Ogawa, Toru; Kashimura, Satoru; Fukuda, Kosaku; ; ;
Journal of Nuclear Materials, 172, p.184 - 196, 1990/00
Times Cited Count：69 Percentile：97.8(Materials Science, Multidisciplinary)no abstracts in English
