External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.
The WILX segment "This Day in Michigan History" marks the anniversary of the Cyclotron Laboratory's first accelerated its first beam of atomic particles October 7, 1965, acknowledging FRIB's present-day continuation of nuclear science research.
Artemis Spyrou, professor of physics at the Facility of Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) and in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University (MSU), and Andrea Richard, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Ohio University, have authored a piece about Irene Joliot-Curie, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 with her husband Frédéric Joliot for discovering artificial radioactivity, a breakthrough that revolutionized science and medicine.
In a Physical Review Letters paper, scientists from FRIB and Los Alamos National Laboratory describe an innovative machine learning approach to speed up calculations of the microscopic influence of nuclear physics into macroscopic properties of neutron stars. The equation of state (EOS) of pure neutron matter is a key input to constrain properties of neutron stars, such as their masses and radii. The authors trained an algorithm based on parametric matrix models to find the right emulators for which to solve the EOS. Their results will allow rapid comparison of nuclear input with astrophysical observables.
Wei Jia Ong, staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has received the American Physical Society’s 2025 Stuart Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics. She is an FRIB scientific user and the secretary for the FRIB Users Organization (FRIBUO) Executive Committee, where she is also a member of the FRIBUO operations subcommittee.
Ten engineering students from MSU and Texas A&M participated in the second Single Event Effects (SEE) Radiation Testing Boot Camp, hosted by MSU's Space Electronics Initiative in partnership with Texas Instruments and FRIB.
An article published on Space.com uses imagery from FRIB, the Stanford Linear Accelerator (SLAC), and CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) to describe how particle accelerators work by accelerating subatomic particles to incredibly high speeds and smashing them into tiny targets, usually atomic nuclei, to achieve a desired effect.
American Nuclear Society's Nuclear Newswire reports on the completion of major construction for the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA), a new FRIB instrument for gamma ray spectroscopy that will be 10 to 100 times more sensitive than previous nuclear science experiments.
An article from Innovation News Network celebrates a major milestone in the construction of the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA), a cutting-edge detector designed to probe the mysteries of atomic nuclei that will soon be housed at FRIB.
Interesting Engineering examines how the research team behind Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA) is using artificial intelligence (AI) to make the software that tracks gamma rays even more powerful.
Mirage News recognizes Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) physicist Cole Pruitt for winning FRIB's Achievement Award for Early Career Researchers, which acknowledges early-career scientists who have made significant contributions to nuclear physics research at or in connection with FRIB.
Energy Reporters celebrates the completion of the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA), a new instrument constructed at Berkeley Lab and coming to FRIB in 2025. GRETA promises new insights into atomic nuclei and the forces that forge the universe's heaviest elements.
Researchers have completed the major construction of the Gamma-Ray Energy Tracking Array (GRETA), a next-generation nuclear detector designed to deliver the most precise measurements yet of atomic nuclei. Developed at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, GRETA will soon be shipped to FRIB for installation and commissioning.
