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Okutsu, Kenichi*; Yamashita, Takuma*; Kino, Yasushi*; Miyashita, Konan*; Yasuda, Kazuhiro*; Oka, Toshitaka; Okada, Shinji*; Sato, Motoyasu*
JJAP Conference Proceedings (Internet), 9, p.011003_1 - 011003_7, 2023/00
Muon catalyzed fusion (
CF) is a cyclic reaction where a negatively charged muon itself acts like a catalyst of nuclear fusion between hydrogen isotopes. In the CF reaction, muon transfer from deuteron to triton and muonic molecular formation are rate-limiting processes. In this work, we have investigated the role of resonance states of muonic molecule in the CF which affects the muonic deuterium atom population. Solving simultaneous rate equations numerically by the fourth-order Runge-Kutta method, we determined the muonic molecular formation rate so that the number of fusion events reproduces a latest experimental result. It is revealed that the resonance states play a role to enhance the fusion rate by accelerating the de-excitation of the muonic atoms.
Okutsu, Kenichi*; Yamashita, Takuma*; Kino, Yasushi*; Nakashima, Ryota*; Miyashita, Konan*; Yasuda, Kazuhiro*; Okada, Shinji*; Sato, Motoyasu*; Oka, Toshitaka; Kawamura, Naritoshi*; et al.
Fusion Engineering and Design, 170, p.112712_1 - 112712_4, 2021/09
Times Cited Count：3 Percentile：45.99(Nuclear Science & Technology)A muonic molecule which consists of two hydrogen isotope nuclei (deuteron (d) or tritium (t)) and a muon decays immediately via nuclear fusion and the muon will be released as a recycling muon, and start to find another hydrogen isotope nucleus. The reaction cycle continues until the muon ends up its lifetime of 2.2 s. Since the muon does not participate in the nuclear reaction, the reaction is so called a muon catalyzed fusion (CF). The recycling muon has a particular kinetic energy (KE) of the muon molecular orbital when the nuclear reaction occurs. Since the KE is based on the unified atom limit where distance between two nuclei is zero. A precise few-body calculation estimating KE distribution (KED) is also in progress, which could be compared with the experimental results. In the present work, we observed recycling muons after CF reaction.
Yamashita, Takuma*; Okutsu, Kenichi*; Kino, Yasushi*; Nakashima, Ryota*; Miyashita, Konan*; Yasuda, Kazuhiro*; Okada, Shinji*; Sato, Motoyasu*; Oka, Toshitaka; Kawamura, Naritoshi*; et al.
Fusion Engineering and Design, 169, p.112580_1 - 112580_5, 2021/08
Times Cited Count：3 Percentile：45.99(Nuclear Science & Technology)A muon () having 207 times larger mass of electron and the same charge as the electron has been known to catalyze a nuclear fusion between deuteron (d) and triton (t). These two nuclei are bound by and form a muonic hydrogen molecular ion, dt. Due to the short inter-nuclear distance of dt, the nuclear fusion, d +t
+ n + 17.6 MeV, occurs inside the molecule. This reaction is called muon catalyzed fusion (CF). Recently, the interest on CF is renewed from the viewpoint of applications, such as a source of high-resolution muon beam and mono-energetic neutron beam. In this work, we report a time evolution calculation of CF in a two-layered hydrogen isotope target.
Adachi, Motoyasu; Hirayama, Hiroshi; Shimizu, Rumi; Sato, Katsuya; Narumi, Issey*; Kuroki, Ryota
Protein Science, 23(10), p.1349 - 1358, 2014/10
Times Cited Count：9 Percentile：25.51(Biochemistry & Molecular Biology)Pleiotropic protein promoting DNA repair A (PprA) is a key protein that facilitates the extreme radioresistance of . To clarify the role of PprA in the radioresistance mechanism, the interaction between recombinant PprA expressed in Escherichia coli with several double-stranded DNAs was investigated. In a gel-shift assay, the band shift of supercoiled pUC19 DNA caused by the binding of PprA showed a bimodal distribution, which was promoted by the addition of 1 mM Mg, Ca, or Sr ions. The dissociation constant of the PprA-supercoiled pUC19 DNA complex, calculated from the relative portions of shifted bands, was 0.6 M with a Hill coefficient of 3.3 in the presence of 1 mM Mg acetate. This indicates that at least 281 PprA molecules are required to saturate a supercoiled pUC19 DNA, which is consistent with the number of bound PprA molecules estimated by the UV absorption of the PprA-pUC19 complex purified by gel filtration. This saturation also suggests linear polymerization of PprA along the dsDNA. On the other hand, the bands of linear dsDNA and nicked circular dsDNA that eventually formed PprA complexes did not saturate, but created larger molecular complexes when the PprA concentration was greater than 1.3 M. This result implies that DNA-bound PprA aids association of the termini of damaged DNAs, which is regulated by the concentration of PprA.
Bando, Kyoko*; Saito, Takeru; Sato, Koichi*; Tanaka, Tomoaki*; Dumeignil, F.*; Imamura, Motoyasu*; Matsubayashi, Nobuyuki*; Shimada, Hiromichi*
Topics in Catalysis, 18(1-2), p.59 - 65, 2002/01
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Adachi, Motoyasu; Tamada, Taro; Sato, Katsuya*; Narumi, Issei; Kuroki, Ryota
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The resistance of Deinococcus radiodurans to 
-ray is 1000 times higher than that of human cells. PprA is the novel protein which promotes repairing DNA, and play a key role in the ability to resist to the radiation. The characterization of PprA have showed: (1) that the expression of PprA is controlled under another novel protein of PprI (2) that PprA promotes ligase reaction: (3) that pprA exhibits the ability to bind on DNA. In this study, our objective is the crystal structure analysis of PprA to reveal its structure-function relationships and for application as genetic and clinical tools. Here, we constructed the E. coli expression and purification system of PprA. Using the purified PprA, some small crystals in size were obtained after screening of conditions for crystalization. Beased on the analyses of DNA-PprA interaction, we showed that 280 molecules of PprA at least can bind on a DNA molecule of pUC19 plasmid (2686bp). In addition, we indicated that several DNA-PprA complexes may form higher complex, when DNA includes terminal end or nick (the cleaved part on a DNA strand). These results are important knowledge in molecular assembly and function of PprA.
Adachi, Motoyasu; Tamada, Taro; Sato, Katsuya; Yura, Kei; Narumi, Issei; Kuroki, Ryota
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Deinococcus radiodurans exhibits 1000 times higher radiation resistance than human cells. PprA is cloned from the bacteria and the novel DNA repair protein that plays an important role in the resistance. This study is aimed to reveal the structure function relationship of PprA. The recombinant PprA protein was purified from E. coli. The interactions of PprA with DNA were analyzed by gel shift assay and gel filtration. The results showed that (1) at least 280 molecules of PprA can bound to a DNA molecule of pUC19 composed of 2686bp (2) the formation the complex of PprA and DNA depends on Mg, Ca and Sr ions at low concentration (3) the formation the complex of PprA and DNA depends on the concentration of the salt at the range of 0 to 0.4M sodium acetate. In addition, the result indicated that the complexes of PprA and DNA can form larger complex depending on the concentration of PprA molecule, when using linear double stranded DNA. This suggests that PprA may locate two terminals of a DNA molecule damaged by radiation at near distance for DNA repairing.
Adachi, Motoyasu; Tamada, Taro; Sato, Katsuya; Yura, Kei; Narumi, Issei; Kuroki, Ryota
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Adachi, Motoyasu; Tamada, Taro; Sato, Katsuya; Yura, Kei; Narumi, Issei; Kuroki, Ryota
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PprA is cloned from the bacteria and the novel DNA repair protein that plays an important role in the resistance. This study is aimed to reveal the structure function relationship of PprA. The recombinant PprA protein was purified from E. coli. The interactions of PprA with DNA were analyzed by gel shift assay and gel filtration. The results showed that (1) at least 280 molecules of PprA can bound to a DNA molecule of pUC19 composed of 2686bp (2) the formation the complex of PprA and DNA depends on Mg, Ca and Sr ions at low concentration (3) the formation the complex of PprA and DNA depends on the concentration of the salt at the range of 0 to 0.4M sodium acetate. In addition, the result indicated that the complexes of PprA and DNA can form larger complex depending on the concentration of PprA molecule, when using linear double stranded DNA. This suggests that PprA may locate two terminals of a DNA molecule damaged by radiation at near distance for DNA repairing.
Yamada, Mitsugu; Adachi, Motoyasu; Sato, Katsuya; Tamada, Taro; Yura, Kei*; Kuroki, Ryota; Narumi, Issei
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Yoshimura, Naoki*; Sato, Rena*; Adachi, Motoyasu; Kuroki, Ryota; Kato, Etsuko*; Kidokoro, Shunichi*
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The change of the thermodynamic functions accompanying the binding of a single stranded oligo-DNA with a sequence of TCTTTTT to cold shock protein from 
HB8 was evaluated by isothermal titration calorimetry, and the three-dimensional structure of the complex was determined by X-ray crystallography. The binding was almost approximated by a two-state model and found to be stabilized by large negative enthalpy change due to the stacking interaction between the bases of the DNA and the aromatic side chains of the protein.
Yamashita, Takuma*; Okutsu, Kenichi*; Kino, Yasushi*; Nakashima, Ryota*; Miyashita, Konan*; Yasuda, Kazuhiro*; Okada, Shinji*; Sato, Motoyasu*; Oka, Toshitaka; Kawamura, Naritoshi*; et al.
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A muon () having 207 times larger mass of electron and the same charge as the electron has been known to catalyze a nuclear fusion (CF) between deuteron (d) and triton (t). In this work, we have solved simultaneous reaction rate equations by the 4th-order Runge-Kutta method for the jointed CF cycles in the two layers (H/D and D/T). The T concentration to maximize the intensities of fusion neutrons and muons emitted to the vacuum will be discussed.
CF experiment at J-PARC MLFNatori, Hiroaki*; Doiuchi, Shogo*; Ishida, Katsuhiko*; Kino, Yasushi*; Miyake, Yasuhiro*; Miyashita, Konan*; Nakashima, Ryota*; Nagatani, Yukinori*; Nishimura, Shoichiro*; Oka, Toshitaka; et al.
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A muonic molecule which consists of muon and two hydrogen isotope nuclei (deuteron (d) or tritium (t)) decays immediately via nuclear fusion (
CF) and the muon will be released as a recycling muon. We attempted to use these muons to develop the scanning muon microscope. In this work, we will report the detection of neutron which emits during the CF reaction.
Okutsu, Kenichi*; Kino, Yasushi*; Nakashima, Ryota*; Miyashita, Konan*; Yasuda, Kazuhiro*; Yamashita, Takuma*; Okada, Shinji*; Sato, Motoyasu*; Oka, Toshitaka; Kawamura, Naritoshi*; et al.
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Muon catalized fusion (CF) is expected to be a high-quality muon beam source for undestructive measurement and a monoenergetic neutron source. In this work, we attemped to observe a released muon after intermolecular nuclear reaction using muonic X-ray.
CF experiment at J-PARC MLFOkutsu, Kenichi*; Kino, Yasushi*; Nakashima, Ryota*; Miyashita, Konan*; Yasuda, Kazuhiro*; Yamashita, Takuma*; Okada, Shinji*; Sato, Motoyasu*; Oka, Toshitaka; Kawamura, Naritoshi*; et al.
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Muon catalized fusion (CF) is expected to be a high-quality muon beam source for undestructive measurement and a monoenergetic neutron source. In this work, we discussed how to observe a kinetic energy distribution of a recycling muon emitted after CF reaction.
Miyashita, Konan*; Okutsu, Kenichi*; Kino, Yasushi*; Nakashima, Ryota*; Yasuda, Kazuhiro*; Yamashita, Takuma*; Okada, Shinji*; Sato, Motoyasu*; Oka, Toshitaka; Kawamura, Naritoshi*; et al.
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To observe a kinetic energy distribution of a recycling muon emitted after CF reaction, it is necessary to guide the recycling muons to a detector. In this work, we simulated the muon transportation using PHITS code and designed an experimental system.
Nakashima, Ryota*; Okutsu, Kenichi*; Kino, Yasushi*; Miyashita, Konan*; Yasuda, Kazuhiro*; Yamashita, Takuma*; Okada, Shinji*; Sato, Motoyasu*; Oka, Toshitaka; Kawamura, Naritoshi*; et al.
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The recycling muon emitted after the muon catalized fusion (CF) has a kinetic energy between a few keV to 10 keV. To observed the kinetic energy distribution of the recycling muon, we have to guide and inject muons to Ti foil, and measure the muonic X-ray. In this work, we utilized SIMION code to calculate the electric field and the trajectory of muons from deuteron target to Ti foil.
Miyashita, Konan*; Okutsu, Kenichi*; Kino, Yasushi*; Nakashima, Ryota*; Yasuda, Kazuhiro*; Yamashita, Takuma*; Okada, Shinji*; Sato, Motoyasu*; Oka, Toshitaka; Kawamura, Naritoshi*; et al.
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To measure the kinetic energy of a recycling muon, we discussed how to reduce the background radiation and the trajectory of the transported recycling muons by simulation code.
Nakashima, Ryota*; Okutsu, Kenichi*; Kino, Yasushi*; Miyashita, Konan*; Yasuda, Kazuhiro*; Yamashita, Takuma*; Okada, Shinji*; Sato, Motoyasu*; Oka, Toshitaka; Kawamura, Naritoshi*; et al.
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To detect a recycling muon emitted after muon catalyzed fusion reaction, it is necessary to guide the recycling muons from the target to a detector in a low background area. In this work, we simulated the muon transportation using SIMONS and PHITS codes and designed an experimental system.
Okutsu, Kenichi*; Kino, Yasushi*; Nakashima, Ryota*; Miyashita, Konan*; Yasuda, Kazuhiro*; Yamashita, Takuma*; Okada, Shinji*; Sato, Motoyasu*; Oka, Toshitaka; Kawamura, Naritoshi*; et al.
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A muon is one of elementary particles which is known to weight 207 times more than an electron. A nuclear fusion reaction occurs in a muonic molecule which consists of two hydrogen isotope nuclei and a muon because the muon binds more tightly than electron. Since the muon does not directly participate in the fusion reaction, the reaction is called muon catalyzed fusion (CF). The muon released after the reaction is called a "recycling muon", and maintains the molecular orbital information when the muonic molecule formed. Therefore, information of the muon wavefunction can be investigated by observing the energy distribution of the recycling muon. We will report the experimental setup for measuring the energy distribution of the recycling muons after the nuclear reaction.
