Student Projects
A range of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and other projects are available in the Department of Nuclear Physics.
Students interested in 3rd year, PhB or Vacation Scholar Projects should contact the lead supervisor associated with the project, as listed in the project details below. Further information on each project can also be obtained by clicking the link provided by the title of each project.
Australian/New Zealand students should contact our Department Student Co-ordinator, Dr Nanda Dasgupta (Mahananda.Dasgupta@anu.edu.au), for further information on PhD programs.
International Students with excellent academic records should contact either Ms Heeok Kyung or Ms Liudmila Mangos, Student Development Officers/Research Student Contacts, Research School of Physics and Engineering (Heeok.Kyung@anu.edu.au or Liudmila.Mangos@anu.edu.au) for more information.
Research Projects Available
Only Show Projects Suitable For:
3rd Years - PhB - Honours - PhD/Masters - Vacation Scholars
Dasgupta, M
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters, Vacation Scholars
Supervisor: Dr M Dasgupta , Professor DJ Hinde
Nuclear fusion at energies below the barrier will be measured to understand the transition from coherent superpositions to irreversible outcomes
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters, Vacation Scholars
Supervisor: Professor DJ Hinde , Dr M Dasgupta
Experiments to investigate the interactions of weakly bound nuclei. Answers will impact on new developments of radioactive beam facilities worldwide.
Hinde, DJ
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters, Vacation Scholars
Supervisor: Dr M Dasgupta , Professor DJ Hinde
Nuclear fusion at energies below the barrier will be measured to understand the transition from coherent superpositions to irreversible outcomes
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters, Vacation Scholars
Supervisor: Professor DJ Hinde , Dr M Dasgupta
Experiments to investigate the interactions of weakly bound nuclei. Answers will impact on new developments of radioactive beam facilities worldwide.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters, Vacation Scholars
Supervisor: Professor DJ Hinde
Modern alchemists form new elements by nuclear fusion. What are the nuclei to be used? Experiments aim to answer this question
Kibedi, T
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters, Vacation Scholars
This project combines a variety of experiments on beams from the ANU 14UD accelerator with theory to build a better understanding of the hyperfine fields present in free ions. These hyperfine fields have important applications to measuring the magnetic properties of exotic nuclei.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours
The project aims to develop numerical procedures to evaluate the energy spectra of X-rays and Auger electrons emitted in nuclear decay.
Suitable for: PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters
The project is aiming to develop a highly sensitive magnetic pair spectrometer to measure the weak decay branches from the Hoyle state. This state is formed in the triple-alpha reaction in stars and is responsible for the carbon production in the Universe.
Lobanov, N
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters
Using microwave design tools, the student is to develop dual layer tunable micro-strip phase detector incorporating electromagnetic coupling aperture and micro-strip feed for electromagnetically coupling out.
Implementing a reliability-centred maintenance approach for the ANUs Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr N Lobanov
Using a reliability-centred maintenance approach, the student is to develop a cost-effective maintenance strategy to address the dominant causes of accelerator equipment failure.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters
By using fast digitising electronics and developing a mathematical model, the student is to design a BPM-based system to reconstruct the charge density distribution, diameter and position of an accelerated ion beam.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters
Using a Labview interface card and software, the student is to develop and commission a PC-based control system for superconducting resonator loop controller.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr N Lobanov
Using the computer codes SIMION and MULE, the student is to undertake a numerical simulation of accelerator components in order to improve transmission of beam through the machine.
Stuchbery, AE
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters, Vacation Scholars
This project combines a variety of experiments on beams from the ANU 14UD accelerator with theory to build a better understanding of the hyperfine fields present in free ions. These hyperfine fields have important applications to measuring the magnetic properties of exotic nuclei.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters, Vacation Scholars
Supervisor: Dr AE Stuchbery , Dr AN Wilson
The magnetic dipole moments of excited nuclear states will be measured to probe nuclear structure, especially the emergence of collectivity near closed shells. Experiments may be performed at large scale international radioactive beam facilities as well as in the ANU heavy ion accelerator laboratory.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr AN Wilson , Dr AE Stuchbery
A variety of projects are available studying aspects of nuclear superdeformation in Hg/Pb nuclei
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours
The project aims to develop numerical procedures to evaluate the energy spectra of X-rays and Auger electrons emitted in nuclear decay.
Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr AN Wilson , Dr AE Stuchbery
Nuclear hyperdeformation, although predicted by state-of-the-art nuclear model calculations, has yet to be observed. We will investigate the predicted best candidate using discrete and quasicontinuum gamma ray spectroscopy.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters, Vacation Scholars
Supervisor: Dr AE Stuchbery , Dr AN Wilson
This project has a theoretical/computational emphasis. The goal is to model the hyperfine interactions of highly charged free ions, examine the conditions under which these ions behave as open versus closed quantum systems, and explore their utility as a laboratory for studies of quantum decoherence.
Suitable for: PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters
The project is aiming to develop a highly sensitive magnetic pair spectrometer to measure the weak decay branches from the Hoyle state. This state is formed in the triple-alpha reaction in stars and is responsible for the carbon production in the Universe.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr AN Wilson , Dr AE Stuchbery
This project will look for evidence of magnetic rotation, predicted in the polonium isotopes but not yet observed, in the isotope 200Po.
Wilson, AN
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters, Vacation Scholars
This project combines a variety of experiments on beams from the ANU 14UD accelerator with theory to build a better understanding of the hyperfine fields present in free ions. These hyperfine fields have important applications to measuring the magnetic properties of exotic nuclei.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters, Vacation Scholars
Supervisor: Dr AE Stuchbery , Dr AN Wilson
The magnetic dipole moments of excited nuclear states will be measured to probe nuclear structure, especially the emergence of collectivity near closed shells. Experiments may be performed at large scale international radioactive beam facilities as well as in the ANU heavy ion accelerator laboratory.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr AN Wilson , Dr AE Stuchbery
A variety of projects are available studying aspects of nuclear superdeformation in Hg/Pb nuclei
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours
The project aims to develop numerical procedures to evaluate the energy spectra of X-rays and Auger electrons emitted in nuclear decay.
Suitable for: Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr AN Wilson , Dr AE Stuchbery
Nuclear hyperdeformation, although predicted by state-of-the-art nuclear model calculations, has yet to be observed. We will investigate the predicted best candidate using discrete and quasicontinuum gamma ray spectroscopy.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters, Vacation Scholars
Supervisor: Dr AE Stuchbery , Dr AN Wilson
This project has a theoretical/computational emphasis. The goal is to model the hyperfine interactions of highly charged free ions, examine the conditions under which these ions behave as open versus closed quantum systems, and explore their utility as a laboratory for studies of quantum decoherence.
Suitable for: PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters
The project is aiming to develop a highly sensitive magnetic pair spectrometer to measure the weak decay branches from the Hoyle state. This state is formed in the triple-alpha reaction in stars and is responsible for the carbon production in the Universe.
Suitable for: 3rd Year, PhB, Honours, PhD/Masters
Supervisor: Dr AN Wilson , Dr AE Stuchbery
This project will look for evidence of magnetic rotation, predicted in the polonium isotopes but not yet observed, in the isotope 200Po.