Congratulations to Tom Bonin for his new appointment as Accelerator Facilities Officer at our University of Melbourne node! 🎉
He will offer critical support for a number of high-profile projects including the pelletron accelerator. We’re happy to have you as part of our #HIA team!
Emeritus Prof. John Newton was the head of the Department of Nuclear Physics at the ANU in the 70s.
A memoir by Katja Curtin et al was recently published in the Historical Records of Australian Science. science.org.au/our-focus/hi...
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We had a fantastic time hosting a group of interns from Nova Systems at the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility.
This group learned how we use the accelerator and the space irradiation beamline to test the radiation hardness of aerospace devices.
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HIA has been successful in our bid to join the European Union and CERN's RADNEXT 2030 project as an associated partner.
Thank you to Daniel Söderström from CERN for visiting HIAF and InSpace's Anupam Kumar Pilli for coordinating this with us.
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Ion implantation at the HIA lab at the Australian National University
Australia has secured a position at the forefront of the quantum revolution. Find out more about how Australia’s long-term strategic investments through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCIRS) are helping to create a quantum future riconnected.org.au/case-studies...
We came together to review and update HIA’s 5 year business strategy. It was fantastic to have so many voices from across the network come together and contribute to such an important plan. A big thanks to Tania Willis for being our facilitator, and Jessica Brosnan from NCRIS for speaking with us.
ANU researchers are pioneering new extraction techniques combining chemistry and nuclear physics at #HIAF delivering ultra-precise results from even tiny samples.
In Megavolts, Dr Michaela Froehlich shares why it matters from reindeer antlers 🦌 to corals 🪸 and sea water 🌊.
A huge congratulations to all the students who graduated from the ANU Research School of Physics last week!! 🎓🎉👏
We're celebrating 7 outstanding PhD graduates from NPAA as well as 2 Honours students who have continued as current PhD students in the department. Congrats and best wishes grads! 🎓
Work hard, play hard! 🚀 ✨ A big week for our space radiation experts at the School of Space Qualification in Sydney—busy by day, connecting by night.
Nuclear Physics News 35-4 features the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility and Dept of Nuclear Physics and Accelerator Applications at the ANU. This is the most up to date portrait of HIAF and is an excellent resource for potential collaborators and students.
more: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
On Monday HIAF hosted students from the National Youth Science Forum Year 12 program.
The Nuclear Physics Dept has a long history with NYSF, with many alumni going on to work in the department. We’re always happy to host such passionate students and potential future colleagues!
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Nuclei are more than a ball of protons and neutrons but models of nuclear structure still aren't perfect. The Nuclear Structure group at the ANU made an addition to their detectors to improve our understanding of the quantum nature of nuclei
More: journals-aps-org.virtual.anu.edu.au/prc/abstract...
As we enter 2026, we celebrate a project started in 2025, due to be completed later this year: a positive ion source for iiLab brought to life by Technical Officer Tom Kitchen from a 40-year-old scientific paper 📰
Read more here: accelerators.org.au/how-a-40-yea...
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As we wrap up 2025, we’d like to thank everyone whose commitment, generosity and expertise made it such a successful year for HIA.📩 Read our CEO end-of-year message and the latest newsletter: mailchi.mp/8c76ecb5d20a.... Wishing the HIA community a safe, restful and enjoyable holiday season✨
The latest research from the ANU shows that on the way to nuclear fusion, atomic nuclei start mixing a lot earlier than we thought! ⚛️ This result comes from experiments at Italy's INFN and Australia's HIAF using the detectors pictured below.
More: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Last Friday the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility was delighted to host students from the Curious Minds Girls in STEM program 👩🔬🔬
They got a tour of the facility and learned all about how accelerators work and what they're used for, and they sat down for a QnA about nuclear physics and working in #STEM
How can particle accelerators help us see dark matter? 👀
Researchers at the ANU are using accelerator mass spectrometry to test the purity of crystals. These will be used to detect dark matter 1km deep underground in a gold mine in Stawell Victoria.
Read More: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
HIA had a busy week in Melbourne last week attending both the Quantum Sensing Science Conference #QSSC2025 of which HIA was a sponsor, and the Australian Space Research Conference #ASRC2025
Both conferences demonstrated impressive cutting-edge research from Australian scientists ⚛️🚀🦘
We were pleased to support the Research School of Physics in delivering the ANU Quantum Open Day. It was a great success: over 300 visitors attended talks by researchers, visited labs, engaged with our experiments, games, demonstrations, and plenty of N₂ ice cream 🍦 and holographic chocolate 🍫 !
Watch the latest Megavolts episode below to see some of the groundbreaking work coming from #HIAF's Space Irradiation Beamline 🚀
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Quantum measurement of crashing black holes and neutron stars: A journey of the tiny ⚛️, the enormous 🌌, and in between 🚶
📅 ANU Quantum Open Day, Saturday 29 Nov
🕐 2:30 pm
🎙️ Dr Sheon Chua from ANU CGA
📘 Full program of talks & activities: physics.anu.edu.au/news_events/...
🎤🐈⬛🎲 Quantum randomness explained! Catch Dr Jess Eastman & Dr Zain Mehdi this Sat 29 Nov @ 1:10 pm as they talk about Schrödinger’s cat, Einstein’s dice, and all things wonderfully weird in quantum physics! physics.anu.edu.au/news_events/...
ANU Quantum Open Day talks lineup 🎤
⚛️ A quantum world in the centre of the atom by Professor Cedric Simenel
12:20 pm at the School of Physics, ANU. After the talk, come and explore the Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility! Book your tickets now before they’re gone! www.eventbrite.com/cc/anu-quant...
ANU Quantum Open Day talks lineup 🎤
🌊💻 Harnessing the wave-like personality of electrons and nuclei to build quantum computers by Dr Danielle Holmes whose visit is supported by @optica-opn.org
Sign up for a tour of one of the many quantum science labs at ANU www.eventbrite.com/cc/anu-quant...
Our Melbourne node hosted the #NCRIS Comms Network Forum this week. Its been 2 yrs since our last in-person meeting! It was great to reconnect with old and new colleagues, exploring shared challenges and opportunities, and generating plenty of ideas for professional development and collaboration.
MegaVolts 13 Asteroid strikes, ancient glaciers, landslides! UNSW Prof Tim Barrows uses HIAF’s AMS to reveal history of earth: scraped by glaciers, crumbled in landslides & pounded by asteroids
physics.anu.edu.au/news_events/...
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ANU Quantum Open Day talks lineup 🎤
💎 Diamond Quantum Technology – from spins to sensors by Dr Marcus Doherty, CSM
You can catch his talk from 11:10-11:40 am on Nov 29 at the Research School of Physics
Register for the event and a tour of Quantum Brilliance here: www.eventbrite.com/e/tour-5-qua...
'Melbourne’s particle accelerators have been the hidden engines driving research for almost a century.'
The Secret History of Melbourne's Particle Accelerators by Dr Adam Steinberg tells 80 years of history and physics at Melbourne: pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/the...
Celebrate the International Year of Quantum at The Australian National University with the ANU quantum open day! 🎉 @scienceanu.bsky.social
Expect talks, snacks, games, experiments, a quantum questions desk, and tours of labs at ANU doing cutting edge quantum science 🔬
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Congratulations to the RadInnovate team on a successful launch of their new ARC Training Centre! 🎉⚛️ #HIA looks forward to supporting students of the training centre and offering our capabilities to the next generation of Australian nuclear scientists and policymakers
www.arc.gov.au/news-publica...
