Druck-Materie 20b.qxd - JUWEL - Forschungszentrum Jülich
Druck-Materie 20b.qxd - JUWEL - Forschungszentrum Jülich
Druck-Materie 20b.qxd - JUWEL - Forschungszentrum Jülich
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ABSTRACT<br />
ACoM - 6<br />
6 th Meeting of the Collaboration on Advanced Cold Moderators<br />
<strong>Jülich</strong>, 11 – 13 September 2002<br />
Neutron cross section of methane hydrate<br />
Y. Kiyanagi, S. Date, T. Horikawa, J. Takamine, H. Iwasa and T. Kamiyama<br />
Graduate School of Eng., Hokkaido University<br />
Kita-13, Nishi-8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-8628, Japan<br />
T. Uchida, T. Ebinuma and H. Narrita<br />
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science<br />
Tsukisamu, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo 062-8517, Japan<br />
S. M. Bennington<br />
ISIS Department, Rutherford Appleton<br />
Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, UK<br />
To estimate the neutronic characteristics of methane hydrate and also to synthesize cross<br />
section data for simulation we need neutron scattering data ranging wide energy and momentum<br />
region. We performed inelastic neutron scattering experiments to get information about<br />
the neutron cross section on methane hydrate. It was found that at high momentum transfer<br />
region rotational mode as well as vibration mode showed recoil like behavior. On the other<br />
hand, at low momentum region, as well known, free rotation like energy levels were<br />
observed. The energy level of ice in methane hydrate was very similar to normal ice. The results<br />
suggest that the rough expression of the cross section of the methane hydrate is presented<br />
by linear combination of the methane and ice.<br />
1. INTRODUCTION<br />
It has been proved that methane is the best material for the cold moderator[1]. On the<br />
other hand ice at 20K gives higher neutron intensity around the thermal neutron region[1].<br />
Methane hydrate consists of these tow materials. So, it is expected that the methane hydrate<br />
moderator give the higher intensity for a wide energy region ranging from cold to thermal<br />
neutron energy. Therefore, the methane hydrate has been proposed as a new cold moderator<br />
material.<br />
To evaluate the neutronic characteristics of methane hydrate it is necessary to perform<br />
moderator experiments as well as to obtain the cross section data for understanding the<br />
characteristics and also to perform the simulation since in the experiments we get information<br />
under the restrict conditions. However, there exist very small number of cross section data<br />
and they aimed at knowing the dynamics of methane in the hydrate. Furthermore, the energy<br />
range studied was concentrated at low energy[2-4]. To know the moderator neutronics we<br />
should know the neutron scattering cross section in the wide energy and momentum region<br />
and also the total neutron cross section.<br />
For this purpose we performed neutron inelastic scattering experiments. Here, we<br />
briefly mention about the preliminary consideration on the results of the scattering<br />
experiment.<br />
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