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...

🚀 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...

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

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

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 🌊.

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

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... #NCRIS #NCRISImpact

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... #NCRISImpact

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 🚀 #NCRIS #NCRISImpact #HIA

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/... @aip.org.au @hia-accelerates.bsky.social @scienceanu.bsky.social

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 🔬 @anff.org.au @aip.org.au

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...

Extra! Extra! Read all about the latest from #HIA in our newest quarterly newsletter! 📰 In this edition we celebrate the Melbourne Pelletron's 50th, the success of HIAS2025 (proceedings open), and a few of our new and old users and staff. 🎉 Read it here: mailchi.mp/81b03126cc50... #NCRIS #IYQ2025

This week #HIA supported the ACT Space Companies Showcase and delivered tours to attendees of the 8th Scientific Detector Workshop. We thank all HIA staff and students who got involved and demonstrated HIAF’s capabilities to this international research community. #NCRIS

If you missed the highly engaging public lecture by Dr Adam Steinberg last month, grab some popcorn 🍿 and get ready for an hour of entertainment as he explores the past and present of Melbourne’s accelerators and the science behind them. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYjm...

A huge thank you to everyone who attended the 9th Heavy Ion Accelerator Symposium! We were joined by over 100 interstate and international attendees from 16 countries with 70 talks delivered by researchers and students from a variety of fields within nuclear and accelerator physics. #HIAS2025

Congratulations to Dr Daniel Bennett for his new appointment as a Radiation Effects Specialist at #HIA with the Space Irradiation Beamline! In his new role, he will lead engagement with users on the space irradiation beamline and work to improve current and future test capabilities.

Come to HIAS to explore the products and services of our exhibitor sponsors. You can meet them Monday to Friday 8-12 Sep in the foyer of the Physics Building, 160 Mills Rd, Acton 2601. Radiation Saunders radsaunders.com Device Technologies www.device.com.au Scitek scitek.com.au #HIA #ANU #HIAS