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 for Honours Students
Only Show Projects Suitable For:
3rd Years - PhB - Honours - PhD/Masters - Vacation Scholars
Dasgupta, M
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
The project aims to develop numerical procedures to evaluate the energy spectra of X-rays and Auger electrons emitted in nuclear decay.
Lobanov, N
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.
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.
Using a Labview interface card and software, the student is to develop and commission a PC-based control system for superconducting resonator loop controller.
Implementing a reliability-centred maintenance approach for the ANUs Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility.
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.
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.
Stuchbery, AE
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The project aims to develop numerical procedures to evaluate the energy spectra of X-rays and Auger electrons emitted in nuclear decay.
Supervisor: Dr AN Wilson , Dr AE Stuchbery
A variety of projects are available studying aspects of nuclear superdeformation in Hg/Pb nuclei
Tsifakis, D
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.
Using a Labview interface card and software, the student is to develop and commission a PC-based control system for superconducting resonator loop controller.
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.
Wilson, AN
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The project aims to develop numerical procedures to evaluate the energy spectra of X-rays and Auger electrons emitted in nuclear decay.
Supervisor: Dr AN Wilson , Dr AE Stuchbery
A variety of projects are available studying aspects of nuclear superdeformation in Hg/Pb nuclei