Quantum Mechanics and Planetary Atmospheres

该项目将通过研究人员和学生参与广泛的国际合作，包括实验、理论和计算，提高澳大利亚研究的知名度和地位，这将解决一个以前无法理解的基础研究问题。由此产生的氮气模型将与全球和行星大气变化的重要领域相关，并将立即应用于美国国家航空航天局、旅行者号、卡西尼号和(后来)新地平线任务的结果分析。在该项目的实验部分，将开发澳大利亚第一个极端紫外线激光设备，该设备将提供与澳大利亚同步加速器互补的研究机会。

The project will increase the visibility and status of Australian research, by the participation of researchers and students in a wide international collaboration, covering experiments, theory, and computation, which will solve a fundamental research problem that has previously defied understanding. The resulting nitrogen model will be relevant to the important fields of global and planetary atmospheric change, and will find immediate application in the analysis of results from the NASA missions, Voyager, Cassini, and (later) New Horizons. In the experimental part of the project, an Australian-first extreme-ultraviolet laser facility will be developed which will provide research opportunities complementary to the Australian Synchrotron.