2018 FRIB News
12 December 2018
Associate Professor of Physics and NSCL Associate Director for Education and Outreach Artemis Spyrou received the 2018 Graduate Academic Advisor Award from the MSU College of Natural Science . The...
03 December 2018
In 2016, FRIB and NSCL initiated the FRIB Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science. The goal of the program is to encourage and help junior researchers to establish a research...
30 November 2018
The community is invited to two free upcoming events at FRIB featuring Harvard University Professor of Mathematics Noam Elkies. First, a public talk on “Canonical Forms: A Mathematician’s View of...
30 November 2018
The American Physical Society awarded former NSCL graduate student Barbara Jacak the 2019 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics . The Bonner Prize is awarded annually to recognize and...
27 November 2018
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) Associate Director for Experimental Research Remco Zegers has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an...
23 November 2018
The American Physical Society awarded former NSCL graduate student Ania Kwiatkowski with the 2018 Stuart Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics . The award recognizes outstanding early career experimentalists...
20 November 2018
The Engineering News-Record (ENR) Midwest recognized the FRIB Project in the Higher Education/Research category of its 2018 Best Projects award program. ENR’s annual Best Projects award program is dedicated to...
12 November 2018
The FRIB Laboratory has successfully passed its first annual Information Security Management System (ISMS) audit and is now registered to the external ISO 27001 information security standard. The ISO 27001...
12 November 2018
GRETA, a new high-resolution gamma-ray detector system that will be used at FRIB, has achieved Critical Decision-3a (CD-3a) approval by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. CD-3a approves...
09 November 2018
The Department of Energy Office of Science’s (DOE-SC) Office of Project Assessment’s (OPA) review of FRIB was held 6-8 November. The main focus of the review was to assess the...
09 November 2018
Three members of the FRIB user community were named 2018 American Physical Society (APS) Fellows: Scott Bogner, Gaute Hagen, and Kate Jones. APS is a nonprofit membership organization that works...
19 October 2018
The Experimental Systems Advisory Committee (ESAC) held a review of FRIB experimental systems 16-18 October. The focus of the review was to assess whether experimental systems scope is being managed...
18 October 2018
Paul Gueye, an associate professor of physics at FRIB, recently met with government representatives, and local and international experts in Senegal, West Africa, to discuss a nuclear physics bridge training...
15 October 2018
MSU nominated Garrett King, a student research assistant at NSCL, for the Marshall Scholarship . It is a national scholarship that supports up to forty U.S. students to study at...
12 October 2018
FRIB staff have successfully completed the repeatability testing for maintenance of the laboratory’s magnets. Over 240 magnets of various types are used to focus and steer the beam as it...
08 October 2018
Recently, FRIB successfully completed beam-instrumentation testing. Beam instrumentation ensures that FRIB’s heavy-ion beam – the highest power heavy-ion beam in the world – doesn’t damage the linear accelerator. FRIB will...
05 October 2018
The Accelerator Systems Advisory Committee (ASAC) held its eighteenth meeting 2-4 October. ASAC focused on the progress of FRIB’s Accelerator Systems Division (ASD) in the last six months. Progress included...
28 September 2018
On 3 August, FRIB successfully circulated liquid lithium and established a lithium film in its charge stripper. FRIB is the first in the world to use liquid lithium as a...
24 September 2018
A year ago, FRIB and the Department of Statistics and Probability (STT) at Michigan State University (MSU) formed a new collaboration between nuclear physics and the statistical sciences . The...
21 September 2018
A new video highlights FRIB from its conception to its future, and features an animation showing how rare isotopes are created. Once completed, FRIB will provide researchers with more than...
FRIB beam-energy upgrade would double beam energy and yield higher intensities of rare isotope beams
21 September 2018
The science planned for FRIB requires a beam-energy upgrade in order to produce higher intensities of rare isotope beams. A beam-energy upgrade would double FRIB’s primary beam energy from 200...
14 September 2018
FRIB’s remote-handling system allows maintenance on equipment difficult to handle in person. The remote-handling vision system permits FRIB staff to remotely conduct such maintenance. The vision system is a collection...
07 September 2018
In 2017, FRIB established the MSU Cryogenic Initiative with the MSU College of Engineering, and MSU established an Accelerator Science and Engineering Traineeship (ASET) program. MSU Cryogenic Initiative The MSU...
30 August 2018
FRIB invites the community to a harp recital at the laboratory on 14 September. The recital features Chen-Yu Huang, Assistant Professor of Harp at Michigan State University. It will begin...
24 August 2018
More than 200 scientists from around the world participated in the Nuclear Structure 2018 conference , held 5-10 August at FRIB. The meeting was the seventeenth in a sequence of...
20 August 2018
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory provided 4,000 tours to members of the public during the FRIB and NSCL Open House on 18 August...
15 August 2018
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Office of Nuclear Physics awarded a two-year grant to Dr. Yue Hao for his research on beam dynamics for electron-ion colliders...
18 July 2018
Michigan State University will host the 36th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory. It will take place from 22-28 July at MSU’s Kellogg Hotel and Conference Center. This is the...
18 July 2018
On 11-12 July, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams achieved a major project milestone by accelerating its first beams in three of forty-six superconducting cryomodules. This demonstrates for the first...
16 July 2018
On 16 July, FRIB hosted Dr. Chris Fall, principal deputy director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) . Dr. Fall spent the day at...
14 July 2018
FRIB invites the community to a public talk on quantum computing and the entanglement frontier at the laboratory on 27 July. The public talk features John Preskill, Richard P. Feynman...
11 July 2018
Researchers from Michigan State University (MSU) and the RIKEN Nishina Center in Japan discovered eight new rare isotopes of the elements phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, argon, potassium, scandium and, most importantly...
10 July 2018
FRIB invites the community to a piano recital at the laboratory on 20 July. The recital features Associate Professor of Piano at Michigan State University Young Hyun Cho. It will...
06 July 2018
The FRIB Laboratory is entering the eighth year of its nuclear engineering partnership with the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium (NSSC) . Funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)...
29 June 2018
Two scientists who perform research at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and will perform research at FRIB have received U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Early Career Research...
28 June 2018
On 27 June, FRIB hosted Professor Dr. Richard Baum of the Theranostics Center for Molecular Radiotherapy and Molecular Imaging, Zentralklinik Bad Berka, in Germany. Professor Dr. Baum spent the day...
22 June 2018
Two scientists who perform research at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and will perform research at FRIB have received U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Early Career Research...
18 June 2018
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Office of Nuclear Physics awarded the “Isotope Development and Production for Research and Applications” grant to a Michigan State University (MSU) chemistry...
14 June 2018
Michigan State University (MSU) is hosting the summer 2018 session of the U.S. Particle Accelerator School (USPAS) , a national graduate-level training and workforce development program in accelerator science and...
07 June 2018
Element 119: Will the curtain rise?/ Will you open the eighth act?/ Claim the center stage? [Mary Soon Lee, Science 8/4/2017] As the 150th anniversary of the formulation of the...
01 June 2018
The ISO9001 quality management system (QMS) audit was completed in May by FRIB’s external certification body, National Sanitation Foundation-International Strategic Relations (NSF-ISR) . There were no audit findings. This successful...
01 June 2018
FRIB continues technical construction, and another significant milestone has been reached with all cryomodules now in production. Additionally, the first three cryomodules in the linear accelerator tunnel have been successfully...
28 May 2018
FRIB hosted a soprano and piano recital at the laboratory on 25 May, featuring soprano Lia Naviliat-Cuncic and pianist Manuel Vieillard. More information about the performance can be found on...
21 May 2018
FRIB Homeland Security Officer Melissa Congleton has received the Ruth Jameyson “Above and Beyond” Award from MSU. This award recognizes support staff members who are pursuing a post-baccalaureate degree while...
18 May 2018
The DOE-SC Office of Project Assessment’s (OPA) review of FRIB was held 15-17 May. The main focus of the review was to assess overall FRIB Project progress since the last...
17 May 2018
FRIB invites the community to a soprano and piano recital at the laboratory on 25 May. The recital features soprano Lia Naviliat-Cuncic and pianist Manuel Vieillard. It will begin at...
16 May 2018
FRIB is hosting a summer school focused on the scientific discoveries resulting from the recent observation of a neutron-star merger. The school, being held from 16-18 May, is titled “Neutron...
02 May 2018
Nearly 70 years ago, astronomer Paul Merrill was watching the sky through a telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California. As he observed the light coming from a distant...
30 April 2018
Gabriel Moreau, an Honors College sophomore majoring in physics in Lyman Briggs College and music in the College of Music at Michigan State University, has been named a recipient of...
13 April 2018
The Accelerator Systems Advisory Committee (ASAC) held its seventeenth meeting 10-12 April. ASAC focused on the progress of FRIB’s Accelerator Systems Division (ASD) in the last six months. This included...
10 April 2018
FRIB’s target module assembly is complete and it has passed first mechanical tests. The heavy-ion beam will travel through FRIB’s linear accelerator and hit the target to create rare isotopes...
06 April 2018
FRIB, with support from NSCL, has designed and built a field mapper for use on the magnets of the fragment separator, which will remove contaminants from the beam and collect...
30 March 2018
Researchers participated in the second FRIB Decay Station Workshop hosted at MSU 25-26 January. The FRIB Decay Station will be a flexible and modular multi-detector system with the ability to...
30 March 2018
A number of summer schools are planned for 2018 to allow students and young researchers the opportunity to explore the world of science. NS 3 Nuclear Science Summer School 13-19...
20 March 2018
Michigan State University's nuclear physics graduate program maintained its No. 1 ranking , according to the latest U.S. News & World Report ranking for best graduate schools . Bolstering MSU’s...
19 March 2018
The seventeenth Exotic Beam Summer School (EBSS2018) will be held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 24-30 June. The aim of the school is to educate young researchers on the...
21 February 2018
Alexandra Gade, professor of physics and National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) chief scientist, received the 2018 William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award from Michigan State University (MSU) . Administered by...
16 February 2018
Today the MSU Board of Trustees (BOT) authorized FRIB to proceed with plans for new additions to the facility. A 14,000-square-foot Cryogenic Assembly Building adjacent to the existing Superconducting Radio...
29 January 2018
Music composer David Biedenbender from the MSU Music Department won the 138 th annual American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize for his work titled...
03 January 2018
FRIB continues technical construction, and another significant milestone has been reached with all cryomodules now in production. Cryomodules are key components of FRIB’s superconducting linear accelerator. The linear accelerator consists...