High-energy x-rays from a synchrotron radiation source allow us to obtain high-quality diffraction data for disordered materials from ambient to extreme conditions, which is necessary for revealing the detailed structures of glass, liquid and amorphous materials. We introduced high-energy x-ray diffraction beamlines and a dedicated diffractometer for glass, liquid and amorphous materials at SPring-8 and report the recent developments of ancillary equipment. Furthermore, the structures of liquid and amorphous materials determined from the high-energy x-ray diffraction data obtained at SPring-8 are discussed.

The temperature dependence of the x-ray structure factor for SiO 2 glass was measured at several pressures up to 19.2 GPa. The position of the first sharp diffraction peak moved to a higher momentum transfer as the temperature increased in a specific pressure-temperature range. The intermediate range structure was thermally relaxed to a denser one. Around 7 GPa, the temperature-induced shift saturated and the crystallization temperature drastically increased. These results support the existence of a relatively stable high-pressure form of SiO 2 glass. A sudden transformation was not observed.

We report the current status of software development for chopper spectrometers at Materials and Life Science Facility (MLF), the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). Our software, named "Utsusemi", has already been utilized in actual users measurements, while we are proceeding with developments for more effective use of high flux neutrons and event-recording methods.

4SEASONS is a Fermi chopper spectrometer in operation at the Materials and Life Science Experimental Facility (MLF) in the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC). 4SEASONS is expected to facilitate highefficiency measurements of weak inelastic signals on novel spin and lattice dynamics using thermal neutrons. The spectrometer is equipped with a coupled moderator and sophisticated components such as an elliptical converging neutron guide with high-critical-angle supermirrors, long (2.5 m) position-sensitive detectors, and a Fermi chopper appropriate for multiple-incident-energy (multi-E i ) measurements by the repetition-rate multiplication technique. Herein, we discuss in detail the design and performance of the spectrometer, and present some examples of the measurements obtained using this spectrometer.