26th Australian Institute of Physics Congress and the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics

Session

AIP NUPP: Nuclear & High-Energy Collider Physics

NUPP

9 Dec 2026, 16:00

Belinda Hutchinson Building (The University of Sydney )

251. Agentic AI for High Energy Physics Analysis: Natural-Language Workflows with RooAgent and FCCAgents

Aman Desai (University of Adelaide (AU))

09/12/2026, 16:00

AIP | Nuclear and Particle Physics (NUPP)

Contributed Oral

We present open-source agentic AI frameworks, RooAgent and FCCAgents, that apply large language models (LLMs) to automate HEP analysis workflows through natural-language interaction, while keeping all physics computation within established, validated software.
RooAgent exposes ROOT-based analysis operations — histogram inspection, event selection, kinematic-distribution visualisation,...

337. Status, Prospects and Physics possibilities for the Future Circular Collider at CERN

Prof. Paul Jackson (University of Adelaide)

09/12/2026, 16:15

AIP | Nuclear and Particle Physics (NUPP)

Contributed Oral

The Future Circular Collider (FCC) programme, proposed at CERN, consists of a luminosity-frontier electron-positron collider (FCC-ee) as a first stage, followed by an energy-frontier hadron collider (FCC-hh) as a second stage, and promises the most far-reaching physics programme for the post-LHC era. FCC-ee is a precision instrument to study the Z, W, Higgs and top particles, and offers...

92. From the cosmos to cancer therapy: untangling complex low-energy nuclear reactions

Edward Simpson (Australian National University)

09/12/2026, 16:30

AIP | Nuclear and Particle Physics (NUPP)

Contributed Oral

Low-energy nuclear reactions are the fundamental process that underpins many applications of nuclear science, from the production of life-saving radioisotopes to the origins of the elements in the universe. These applications require comprehensive information about nuclear reaction probabilities, via angular-differential cross sections, as a function of the collision energy.

The reactions...

620. Harnessing simple atomic configurations to characterise complex nuclear excitations

Jack Woodside

09/12/2026, 16:45

AIP | Nuclear and Particle Physics (NUPP)

Contributed Oral

The magnetic moment or $g$ factor of a nuclear quantum state gives a sensitive test of its proton versus neutron character. There are extensive data on the first-excited states of even-even nuclei measured by the transient-field technique. However, many of these data have a large uncertainty due to the difficulty of calibrating the transient field, which must be referenced to an independently...

499. Positive ion-initiated secondary avalanches in a gas time projection chamber with an intensified camera readout

Victoria Bashu (The Australian National University)

09/12/2026, 17:00

AIP | Nuclear and Particle Physics (NUPP)

Contributed Oral

Micropatterned gas Time Projection Chambers (TPCs) are of interest for rare event physics where 3D reconstruction of low-energy recoil tracks has the potential to provide unique sensitivity to various searches, such as Dark Matter [1]. Camera based readouts for gas TPCs are gaining popularity to measure low-energy tracks for low cost per channel, high resolution and isolation of the readout...

669. Interpreting the excitation energy dependence of fission by precise determination of the angular momentum

Maggie Webber (Australian National University)

09/12/2026, 17:15

AIP | Nuclear and Particle Physics (NUPP)

Contributed Oral

It is well established that nuclear fission (the splitting of atomic nuclei) is strongly influenced by the quantum mechanical structure of the nucleus, determined by its constituent protons and neutrons. Nascent fission fragments with large energy gaps between nuclear states are more stable and therefore drive fission towards these configurations. An open question in nuclear fission is: why do...