Have you engaged with our team or used our facilities at ANU or The University of Melbourne in the past 12 months? Share your confidential feedback through our short annual User Experience Survey by COB 7 August. forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/Respon... @physicsanu.bsky.social

The Particle Accelerator Group at The University of Melbourne has had a busy couple of months, with members attending several conferences and workshops around Europe. Great work A/Prof Suzie Sheehy, Dr Jacinta Yap, Dr Adam Steinberg and PhD candidates Joel Bellesini, Simon Barg, and Joel Valerian!

We sincerely congratulate our longest-serving staff member, Alan Cooper, on his 80th birthday. Alan has been part of the HIA community for more than 50 years, joining the technical team at HIAF in 1974, providing invaluable support ever since. Wishing you many more wonderful years to come!

Our Victoria node joined the NCRIS20 celebrations hosted by AURIN at the University of Melbourne. It was a great gathering of people who tirelessly work behind the scenes to support the one of Australia’s greatest assets – the national research infrastructure. #NCRISImpact

NCRIS@20 celebrations took place across the nation this week We thank all our users, board members, staff, and collaborators who contributed to these important events. Together, we celebrated two decades of achievements while also reflecting on the future of Australia’s R&D sector. #NCRISImpact

This week our professional and technical staff attended the inaugural ACRI conference that brought together Australia's research infrastructure workforce. It was a golden opportunity to swap stories and experiences of working in research infrastructure and to form new connections and collaborations.

Recent visit from Integrated Service Technology (iST), Taiwan, and Foremay, US, focused on capabilities of our Space Irradiation Beamline at #HIAF. Now supported by iST, we can offer semiconductor failure analysis and decapping services to our clients requiring radiation testing.

Great week at Singapore for our space irradiation beamline team. At the Global Science and Technology Convention and Exhibition, they connected with existing partners and explored new opportunities in the semiconductor and space sectors. #gstce2026 #spaceradiationtesting #NSQN #NCRIS

The 9th Heavy Ion Accelerator Symposium (HIAS 2025) peer-reviewed conference proceedings are now available on EJP Web of Conferences. A huge effort by the editorial team to bring this together! The articles are available (open access) here: www.epj-conferences.org/articles/epj...

HIA Accelerator Mass Spectrometry team at the @physicsanu.bsky.social provided highly specialised measurements and scientific and technical support to the German researchers examining Antarctic ice cores dated 80,000 years back to trace radioactive iron-60. theconversation.com/stardust-tra...

Stardust trapped in Antarctic ice reveals tens of thousands of years of Solar System’s past

We can study the cosmos by tracing debris from exploding stars right here on Earth.

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🚀 First round of testing completed at our Space Irradiation Beamline for Zero Error Systems — a Singapore-based global semiconductor designer for the space industry. More testing is planned as part of the project funded by the Australian Government’s Global Science and Technology Diplomacy Fund.

A fantastic opportunity for science teachers and career advisors to hear from The University of Melbourne staff and alumni how physics links to different scientific disciplines and help in non-physics careers. Attend on campus or join online. www.eventbrite.com/e/from-physi...

From Physics Skills to Careers

Science Teachers and Career Practitioners! Come join us and discover why physics matters for every student—not just future scientists.

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𝗡𝗖𝗥𝗜𝗦: 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 by supporting commercialisation of Australian quantum breakthroughs #NCRIS20 #Quantum #ResearchInfrastructure @hia-accelerates.bsky.social @nci-australia.bsky.social @pawseycentre.bsky.social

Marcus Doherty - Quantum Brilliance

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Pleased to be collaborating with top nuclear science facilities through MOU with US Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) & @hia-accelerates.bsky.social. It's a great boost to researchers, students & our industry capabilities physics.anu.edu.au/news_events/... @aip.org.au @scienceanu.bsky.social

Our quarterly newsletter is out—take a moment to catch up on our latest news and updates over the long weekend. Wishing all a festive and relaxing Easter holiday 🐰🐣 Link: mailchi.mp/anu/hia-news...

A big thank you to our ANU Open Day volunteers: Zuzana, Tom, Jack, and Misty. Armed with a classroom Van de Graaff, flying pie tins, and an Anna doll, they demonstrated the principles of static electricity that generate 15 million volts at HIAF and accelerate protons to plutonium. ⚡⚛️ #NCRIS

We are over the moon to work with the historic Roo-ver program. Funded by the Australian Space Agency and delivered by over 20 partners, it's the first lunar rover designed and built in Australia. Program Director Ben Sorensen toured our HIAF node to discuss space radiation testing. #NCRISimpact

Congratulations to the team Suzie Sheehy (lead investigator, University of Melbourne), Tessa Charles (ANSTO), and Prof Rob Appleby (The University of Manchester) on being awarded a highly competitive ARC DP to unlock the potential of next-generation magnets in particle accelerators. 🎉 #NCRISImpact

When radioactive atoms inside minerals decay, they fire out high energy particles that leave trails of destruction. To investigate this phenomenon, researchers created ion tracks in crystals by bombarding them with 185 MeV gold ions, using our Heavy Ion Accelerator Facility at the ANU💎👩‍🔬 #NCRISImpact

ANU Research School of Physics@physicsanu.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Radioactive decay leaves unusual trails of destruction in crystals, but now we understand them. Nice work Patrick Kluth using @ansto.bsky.social & @hia-accelerates.bsky.social will help with safer storage of radioactive waste. physics.anu.edu.au/news_events/... @aip.org.au @scienceanu.bsky.social

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... @science.org.au @scienceanu.bsky.social @physicsanu.bsky.social

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. #NCRIS #NCRISImpact #NSQN #HIAFSIBL

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. #NCRIS #NCRISImpact

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 🌊.

ANU Research School of Physics@physicsanu.bsky.social · 6mo ago

MegaVolts 15: Forget needles in haystacks, Dr Michaela Froehlich can find 10^-15g radioactive isotope in sea water, coral or antler of a deer! physics.anu.edu.au/news_events/... @aip.org.au @scienceanu.bsky.social @supersubatomic.bsky.social @starstoofondly.bsky.social

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! #NCRIS #NCRISImpact