Mr. Yuito Ushitani, Associate Engineer at the Mechanical Engineering Center, received the 23rd Annual Meeting Award of the Particle Accelerator Society of Japan

Mr. Yuito Ushitani, Associate Engineer at the Mechanical Engineering Center, received the 23rd Annual Meeting Award of the Particle Accelerator Society of Japan. The title of his award-winning presentation was “Fabrication of a cryogenic heat exchanger for the ultra-cold neutron source.”
The Mechanical Engineering Center fabricated a heat exchanger for the TUCAN international collaborative experiment, in which the Muon and Neutron Group at the Institute for Particle and Nuclear Studies (IPNS) participates. Mr. Ushitani was responsible for investigating manufacturing methods, detailed design, and the actual fabrication, and successfully completed heat exchanger for use in the experiment.