Improvement of a High-resolution Pulse Cold Neutron Spectrometer AGNES

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  • Yamamuro Osamu
    Neutron Science Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo
  • Inamura Yasuhiro
    Quantum Beam Science Directorate, Japan Atomic Energy Agency

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  • 高分解能パルス冷中性子分光器AGNESの改造
  • コウ ブンカイノウ パルス レイチュウセイシ ブンコウキ AGNES ノ カイゾウ

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Abstract

AGNES is a chopper spectrometer installed at the top of the C3 cold guide of JRR-3 (JAERI, Tokai). In 2004-2006, this spectrometer was greatly improved by installing (1) 208 new detectors to make the detector bank complete, (2) new radiation shields composed of Fe (14mm), polyethylene (50mm), B4C rubber (10mm), and Cd (0.5mm) sheets, (3) a new control system for the anti-frame-overlap chopper rotating simultaneously with the Fermi chopper, (4) a monitor counter at the space between the chopper and monochromator, (5) a neutron guide tube (50cm) before the monochromator, (6) a new instrument control (monochromators, choppers, beam narrowers, etc.) and measurement control (realtime data monitoring, sample temperature control, etc.) systems, (7) a top-loading type cryostat workable at a wide temperature range of 6-480K. As the results of these improvements, the signal intensity has been increased by 3.3 and the background has been reduced by 1/10 both compared with the data before the improvements. The present AGNES is applicable to dynamic studies on various nano porous materials, gels, protein solutions, etc. and various in situ and special environments experiments.

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  • hamon

    hamon 17 (1), 85-89, 2007

    The Japanese Society for Neutron Science

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