One of the most important reactions in the universe can get a huge and unexpected boost inside exploding stars known as supernovae, according to new research. Luke Roberts, an assistant professor at FRIB and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University, implemented the computer code that the team used to model the environment inside a supernova.

Michigan State University researchers have discovered that one of the most important reactions in the universe can get a huge and unexpected boost inside exploding stars known as supernovae. This finding also challenges ideas behind how some of the Earth's heavy elements are made.

The nuclear theory research of Saori Pastore, assistant professor of physics in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, directly complements experimental work in the national nuclear and particle physics program, like the work that will be conducted at FRIB.

In this radio interview, FRIB Laboratory Director Thomas Glasmacher explains how FRIB works and what it means for FRIB to be a user facility for the Office of Nuclear Physics in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.

Michigan State University not only has the nation’s top nuclear physics program, it’s also home to one of the field’s most prolific authors, B. Alex Brown. The professor of physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, who also works at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, has published over 800 papers during his career, including a paper 30 years ago that still shapes the way people talk about nuclear science today. The prominent journal Physical Review C is featuring that paper in a special collection of articles to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

The U.S. Department of Energy has designated the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility. U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette announced the designation at a special ceremony held at MSU in a tent adjacent to FRIB on the 29th of September. DOE Under Secretary for Science Paul Dabbar was on hand for the ceremony.

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University has reached another milestone on its journey towards completion. “FRIB,” as it’s commonly known, has been designated as a user facility by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science. That means researchers from around the world will have access to the giant particle accelerator that will produce rare isotopes not otherwise found in nature.

Michigan State University hit a new milestone as the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, better known as the FRIB is almost complete. On 29 September, FRIB became a user facility under the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. It’s the latest step for the federally-supported facility.

A $730 million state-of-the-art nuclear science research facility at Michigan State University got federal approval to welcome scientists from around the world and remains on target to open in 2022. MSU’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams gained its official certification as an Energy Office of Science user facility from the U.S. Department of Energy.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette traveled to East Lansing to officially designate Michigan State University’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams as a user facility under the Office of Science.

The $730 million Facility for Rare Isotope Beams has been under construction for the better part of a decade and includes an underground central accelerator moving particles at half the speed of light. Electric construction for the state-of-the-art lab was provided by Detroit’s Shaw Electric and Superior Electric, Lansing, Michigan. For both contractors, this unique electrical project required a dive into physics to build and power a facility unlike any other.

In the Physics Division of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, James (“Mitch”) Allmond conducts experiments and uses theoretical models to advance our understanding of the structure of atomic nuclei, which are made of various combinations of protons and neutrons (nucleons). Allmond currently looks forward to DOE’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). He is a leader developing instrumentation for FRIB, in particular the FRIB Decay Station, which is led by ORNL and University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

The ability to probe heavier elements will be used to further explore research on possible environments for making these elements. This research can help to target experiments at future nuclear physics accelerators such as the forthcoming Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), which is set to begin running experiments in 2022.

A team of researchers, including scientists from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, or NSCL, at MSU, have made a discovery that could change how scientists understand fundamental forces acting inside atomic nuclei.

FRIB Chief Scientist Witek Nazarewicz co-authored the Nature Physics paper on "Measurement and microscopic description of odd–even staggering of charge radii of exotic copper isotopes."

A team of researchers, including scientists from FRIB and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University, have made a discovery that could change how scientists understand fundamental forces acting inside atomic nuclei.

A team of researchers, including scientists from FRIB and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University, have made a discovery that could change how scientists understand fundamental forces acting inside atomic nuclei.

Michigan State University Professor Alexandra Gade collaborated with international colleagues for a Reviews of Modern Physics article about the evolution of shell structure in exotic nuclei.

Michigan State University has the No. 1-ranked graduate program in nuclear physics, according to the U.S. News and World Report. That’s why the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science selected MSU to design, build and operate the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, which will be the world’s most advanced superconducting heavy-ion linear accelerator and our nation’s newest “discovery machine” when it becomes fully operational in 2022. (Note: This is MSU-sponsored content and may be blocked by ad-blocking software.)