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Abstract: The new time-of-flight smaller-angle neutron scattering (TOF-SANS) instrument HI-SANS is projected to be built in the Materials and Life Science Facility (MLF) of Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). The target of the HI-SANS is to study microstructures and hierarchical structures of nano-meter sized materials and their complexes. For the simultaneous collection of scattering data in the wide q range (∼3×10−3

Abstract: As a magnetic neutron lens based on a sextupole magnet to focus neutrons has chromatic aberration, it has been proposed that the chromatic aberration can be compensated in the pulsed neutron beam focusing by combining the focusing and defocusing functions of the multiplet magnetic lens system synchronously with time-of-flight (TOF) of neutrons. In this study, we performed numerical simulations on the multiplet magnetic lens system to investigate how a pulsed neutron beam can be controlled on the basis of the TOF method. It was then confirmed that the chromatic aberration can be compensated and the focal condition can be maintained over a certain λ-range by utilizing plural magnetic lenses in series and choosing the focusing and defocusing function of each magnetic lens synchronously with TOF of neutrons. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: We have developed thin film Fresnel lenses made of a hydrogen-free amorphous polymer for neutron focusing purposes. A neutron beam test showed the strong focusing of a cold neutron beam, and an increase of the neutron intensity was observed to be more than 50 times. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: A new beamline for a fundamental physics experiment is under construction at BL05 port in the Materials and Life Science Facility (MLF) at Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC); this beamline is designed using novel techniques of neutron optics and it is termed “Neutron Optics and Physics.” The beam from the moderator is deflected by multi-channel supermirrors and split into three branches for individual experiments. In this study, we have optimized the design of the beam optics and shields using the Monte Carlo simulation package PHITS. The neutron fluxes of beams are expected to be 9.2×105 /cm2/μstr/s/MW, 1.2×109 /cm2/s/MW, and 4.0×108 /cm2/s/MW, with polarization of 99.8%. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: For the future fundamental physics experiments by using cold neutrons, we are developing a device which can measure the neutron polarization degree by accuracy significantly below 10−3. A quadrupole magnet is one of the promising candidate to measure the neutron polarization degree by such extremely high precision. We have performed a polarization experiment by using the quadrupole magnets at the Very Cold Neutron (VCN) port of the PF-2 in the Institute Laue-Langevin (ILL). As a result, we obtained the polarization degree P with very high accuracy P=0.9994±0.0001(stat.)±0.0003(syst.), which meet our requirement significantly. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]