Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140100784

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE140100784

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Breaking through the barrier: a new approach to understanding quantum tunneling in nuclear fusion. Experiments have shown major failings of our best predictive model of nuclear fusion. This project will address these failings through a multifaceted research program which will develop and benchmark an enhanced quantum model and test for missing physics by conducting precision fusion measurements for carefully chosen reactions. This project will develop a new technique that exploits fission following fusion to directly probe physical processes inside the fusion barrier, which are missing from current models. This integrated approach to fusion will allow us to better predict fusion cross sections, create new elements and exploit radioactive ion beams at new international facilities.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-05-2014

End Date: 01-09-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $395,220.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Synchrotrons; Accelerators; Instruments and Techniques | Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics | Nuclear Physics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences |

Other Keywords

Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Nuclear Physics | Synchrotrons; Accelerators; Instruments and Techniques

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