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Development of laser ablation absorption spectroscopy for nuclear fuel materials: plume expansion behavior for refractory metals observed by laser-induced fluorescence imaging spectroscopy

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The dynamic behavior of an ablation plume in low pressure rare gas ambient was investigated with laser-induced fluorescence imaging spectroscopy for three refractory metals, i.e. titanium, zirconium and hafnium. A comparison of the plume expansion behaviors for the species of these elements revealed an atomic weight effect on the plume structure formation. A hemispherical thin layer and cavity structure reported previously for gadolinium were observed also for these elements. It was found that the plume size increases as well as the layer thickness decreases with increasing atomic weight. For ground state atoms of Ti, substantial amount of atoms were observed even at the center of the plume. Also, the persistence of the Ti atomic plume was as long as 300 μs, which was significantly longer than the other species studied. Furthermore, the mass-dependent elemental separation was observed in the ablation plume produced from a multielement sample. These results suggest that the observed plume structure arises from the ion-electron recombination process and the recoil of the ablated species during the multiple collisions with gas atoms.

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The present study is financially supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP18H01922 and the Nuclear Energy Science & Technology and Human Resource Development Project (through concentrating wisdom) from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency/Collaborative Laboratories for Advanced Decommissioning Science.

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    Masabumi Miyabe, Masaki Oba, Katsuaki Akaoka, Masaaki Kato & Ikuo Wakaida

  2. Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management, The University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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Miyabe, M., Oba, M., Akaoka, K. et al. Development of laser ablation absorption spectroscopy for nuclear fuel materials: plume expansion behavior for refractory metals observed by laser-induced fluorescence imaging spectroscopy. Appl. Phys. A 126, 213 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-020-3368-0

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