Abstract
Design and performance of a new chopper spectrometer 4SEASONS, which is under construction for the spallation neutron source at Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC), are described. This spectrometer has middle energy resolution and two orders higher performance than current state-of-the-art chopper spectrometers by utilizing a unique beam transport design and the repetition rate multiplication (RRM) method. 4SEASONS has a specification optimized for the study of the high critical temperature (T c) superconductivity, and should be suitable for collecting weak inelastic signals from a single crystal over a wide four-dimensional (4D) Q-ω space.
Acknowledgements
The authors thank K. Oikawa for valuable comments on the transport design. 4SEASONS is supported by Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan (No. 17001001).