In this seminar I will give an overview of some of the research projects underway in the Medical Accelerator Physics group at the University of Melbourne, with a focus on the future potential of novel accelerator technologies in Australia. In 2023, our group inaugurated the first southern hemisphere X-band accelerator facility, on-track to realise a compact electron accelerator R&D lab with...
Neutral Beam Injection (NBI) systems are indispensable components in modern fusion machines, playing pivotal roles in plasma heating, diagnostics, and control. This seminar will provide a comprehensive overview of NBI systems, with a particular focus on their implementation and performance on Joint European Torus (JET) and MAST-U tokamaks. The presentation will delve into the core principles...
The climate crisis and the degradation of the world's ecosystems require humanity to take immediate action. The international scientific community has a responsibility to limit the negative environmental impacts of basic research.
The HECAP+ communities (High Energy Physics, Cosmology, Astroparticle Physics, and Hadron and Nuclear Physics) make use of common and similar experimental...
Precision atomic physics measurements with antimatter may help us understand the lingering Baryon asymmetry problem. The ALPHA Collaboration has recently published the first direct measurements of the gravitational effect on the trajectory of antiparticles in ALPHA-g, an apparatus dedicated to making measurements on antimatter gravitation [1]. This first-of-a-kind direct test of the free-fall...
Asteroids are the building blocks of the Solar System, providing a record of the processes and events that shaped the planets. Dark C-type asteroids are thought to contain water and organic matter and were likely an important source of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and prebiotic molecules to the early Earth. Fragments of C-type asteroids arrive naturally on Earth as carbonaceous meteorites or...
