Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170102318

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP170102318

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Creating superheavy elements and isotopes. This project aims to measure properties, probabilities and timescales of competing quasifission processes, by combining Australian accelerator and detector capabilities with exotic radioactive targets. In 2015, nuclear fusion created superheavy elements with atomic numbers 113 to 118. The race is now on to create elements 119 and 120, as their production and properties should pin down the location of the predicted superheavy Island of Stability, but 3-fragment quasifission is a major impediment to their formation. This project will evaluate quassification processes on the nuclear reactions proposed to form new superheavy elements and is expected to identify the best reactions for their discovery. The synthesis of new elements tests quantum physics, relativistic chemistry and element creation in the cosmos, and offers high profile returns on investments.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 18-01-2017

End Date: 17-04-2020

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $658,500.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Synchrotrons; Accelerators; Instruments and Techniques | Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics | Physical Chemistry not elsewhere classified | Nuclear Physics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Technology |

Other Keywords

Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics | Expanding Knowledge in Technology | Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Nuclear Physics | Physical Chemistry not elsewhere classified | Synchrotrons; Accelerators; Instruments and Techniques

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