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.