Development and test of SEOP neutron spin filter in Japan

We have begun the development of an in-situ spin-exchange optical pumping (SEOP) system aiming to use it as a neutron spin filter for incident beam polarization at the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). To use it, it is recommended that the optics be adjusted easily, have high stability, and have a small size. In this paper we improved our previous SEOP system aiming to use it in J-PARC and performed a neutron beam test at the JRR-3 NOP beamline to see the performance of the neutron spin filter (NSF). The polarization of the ³He gas reached 73%. This paper gives the present status of the development of in-situ SEOP system in J-PARC.     

Domain walls and gravitational waves after thermal inflation

Thermal inflation is an attractive solution to the cosmological moduli problem. However, domain walls may be formed after thermal inflation and some mechanisms are needed to eliminate the domain wall before it dominates the Universe. We point out that gravitational waves produced by the dynamics of domain walls may be observed by the pulsar timing experiments and future space-borne gravitational wave detectors, which provides a probe into the period of thermal inflation. We also show that the QCD instanton effect can effectively eliminate the domain walls with producing observable amount of gravitational waves.     

Photoinduced depolymerization of poly(olefin sulfone)s possessing photobase generator side‐chains: Effect of spacer‐chain length

Photoinduced depolymerization of poly(olefin sulfone)s possessing photobase generators in the side‐chain was investigated. Irradiation with UV light generated base on the side‐chains and induced depolymerization based on proton abstraction on the main‐chain. The effect of the length of the spacer chain, which connects the photobase‐generating moiety to the polymer main chain on the photoinduced depolymerization, also was investigated. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2013 , 51, 3873–3880     

An expedient synthesis of ellipticine via Suzuki-Miyaura coupling

A simple and efficient total synthesis of ellipticine was developed via the Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of sterically sensitive 2-hydroxybenzeneboronic acid with a multifunctional aryl halide using Pd(OAc)₂ as a catalyst and Cu(OAc)₂·H₂O as an additive in DMSO/H₂O as a key step followed by double N-arylation and cyclization.     

Direct summand conjecture and descent for flatness

We prove the equivalence of the direct summand conjecture and descent of flatness for integral extensions.

     

Crystallographic analysis of a pair of isolable atropisomers of 2-aryl substituted indoline derivatives

The crystal and molecular structures of isomeric compounds of 1-(4′-chlorobenzoyl)-2-(2″-hydroxynaphthyl)-3,3-Dimethylindoline have been determined by single crystal X-ray analyses as a pair of diastereomeric atropisomers due to restricted rotation about a Csp³-Csp² bond.     

Improvement in superconductivity of TlBa2CaCu2Oy system by introduction of oxygen loss

The T_c and oxygen content of TlBa₂CaCu₂O_y have been investigated by quenching experiments, in which the heat-treated samples were dropped into liquid nitrogen. The oxygen loss, v, of TlBa₂CaCu₂O_{yo − v} was determined by thermogravimetry in a nitrogen atmosphere using an oxygen-annealed specimen of TlBa₂CaCu₂O_yo and also by measurements of the weight differences before and after quenching. T_c increased from 80 K of the oxygen-annealed specimen up to about 110 K with increasing oxygen loss up to v = 0.035 by annealing at 500°C in a nitrogen atmosphere. Judging from the high T_c above 110 K achieved by a small oxygen loss about v = 0.035, the as-sintered oxygen-annealed TlBa₂CaCu₂O_yo specimen was in the over-doping state and probably has an oxygen vacancy of 7 − y_o0.