US-Australia Collaboration: Preparing to study heavy-ion fusion induced with radioactive ion beams

这项CNIC奖将促进国家超导回旋加速器实验室（NSCL）和澳大利亚国立大学（ANU）之间的新合作的发展。国家科学实验室即将完成ReA3设施，该设施将提供世界上独一无二的能量在库仑势垒附近的放射性离子束（肋骨）。将建立一个新的研究项目，重点研究由肋骨诱导的重离子聚变。国家科学实验室目前正在计划建造一个新的探测器来测量裂变碎片。澳大利亚国立大学的David Hinde教授（核物理系主任）和Nanda Dasgupta教授在澳大利亚国立大学的加速器设施中开发了类似的裂变探测器，该探测器已用于许多稳定束实验。CNIC的奖励将允许NSCL研究小组前往澳大利亚国立大学，进行重离子聚变实验，并开始制定在ReA3完成类似测量的计划。与PI一起，两名来自国家科学院的研究生将前往澳大利亚国立大学参与实验和规划过程。学生将有广泛的教育机会，包括参与国际合作，与澳大利亚国立大学的研究人员进行科学讨论，以及使用澳大利亚国立大学探测器进行技术技能开发。访问期间完成的实验结果将发表在同行评议的期刊上，并在会议上发表。这项合作还将在国家科学实验室生产一种新的探测器，用于与rib进行聚变测量。

This CNIC award will facilitate the development of a new collaboration between the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) and the Australian National University (ANU). The NSCL is near completion of the ReA3 facility which will provide world-unique radioactive ion beams (RIBs) at energies around the Coulomb barrier. A new research program focused on the study of heavy-ion fusion induced with RIBs will be established. Planning for the construction of a new detector to measure fission fragments is currently underway at the NSCL. Prof. David Hinde (Dept. Head of Nuclear Physics) and Prof. Nanda Dasgupta of ANU have developed a similar fission detector at the ANU accelerator facility which has been used in numerous stable beam experiments. The CNIC award will permit the NSCL research group to travel to ANU, perform a heavy-ion fusion experiment, and begin developing a plan for completing similar measurements at ReA3.Along with the PI, two graduate students from the NSCL will travel to ANU to participate in the experiment and planning process. The students will have a wide range of educational opportunities including participating in an international collaboration, scientific discussions with researchers at ANU, and technical skills development using the ANU detector. The results from the experiment completed during the visit will be published in a peer-reviewed journal and presented at conferences. The collaboration will also work to produce a new detector at the NSCL to be used for fusion measurements with RIBs.