Research Grant
[Cite as https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP200102643]Researchers: Clancy James (Chief Investigator) , ARC Linkage Grant LP1701000985 (Funded by) , Ron Ekers (Partner Investigator)
Brief description Detecting cosmic rays using precision radio imaging. This project's aim is to identify the source of the highest-energy particles in nature, cosmic rays, and discover new physical processes at energies unreachable by the Large Hadron Collider.\n\nIt will do this by using the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope to detect the sub-microsecond pulses from cosmic ray interactions in the Earth's atmosphere. The project's intended outcome is a sample of thousands of cosmic ray events, and a new technique to analyse the structure within them.\n\nThe anticipated benefits are the establishment of the Murchison Widefield Array as a world-leading instrument for astroparticle physics, new knowledge of high-energy astro and particle physics, and advances and training in fast signal processing methods.
Funding Amount $378,000
Funding Scheme Discovery Projects
- PURL : https://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP200102643
- ARC : DP200102643