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

美澳合作：准备研究放射性离子束诱导的重离子聚变

• 批准号: 1341088
• 负责人: David Morrissey
• 金额: $ 4.16万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-10-01 至 2016-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1341088&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Australia; Collaboration; Preparing; study

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.

该 CNIC 奖项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) 之间新合作的发展。 NSCL 的 ReA3 设施即将完工，该设施将提供世界上独一无二的库仑势垒附近能量的放射性离子束 (RIB)。将建立一个新的研究计划，重点研究 RIB 诱导的重离子聚变。 NSCL 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一种类似的裂变探测器，该探测器已用于许多稳定束流实验。 CNIC 奖项将允许 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。来自 NSCL 的两名研究生将与 PI 一起前往澳大利亚国立大学参加实验和规划过程。学生将获得广泛的教育机会，包括参与国际合作、与澳大利亚国立大学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发展。访问期间完成的实验结果将发表在同行评审期刊上并在会议上展示。此次合作还将致力于在 NSCL 生产一种新探测器，用于 RIB 的聚变测量。