External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.
Researchers at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) have created five new isotopes. They are the first batch of new isotopes made at FRIB. Researchers say the discoveries will help inform and refine our understanding of fundamental nuclear science.
In creating five new isotopes, an international research team working at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University has brought the stars closer to Earth. The isotopes—known as thulium-182, thulium-183, ytterbium-186, ytterbium-187 and lutetium-190—are reported in the journal Physical Review Letters.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) posted a highlight titled “Long-Lived State in Radioactive Sodium Discovered at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams” about the discovery of an unusually long-lived excited state, or isomer, in radioactive sodium-32. DOE-SC posts about 200 published research findings annually, selected by their respective program areas in DOE-SC as publication highlights of special note.
Michigan State University Honors College students Landon Buskirk and Andrew Yeomans-Stephenson, traveled to Hawaii for the joint meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics and the Physical Society of Japan. The organizing committee selected Buskirk and Yeomans-Stephenson to present at the five-day event, based on papers the students submitted. Both students conduct research at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB).
In FRIB’s first year, its measurements tackled the changes in the structure of the shortest-lived nuclei, exotic decay modes, nuclear reactions that affect cosmic events such as X-ray bursts, and processes in the crusts of neutron stars.
An MSU assistant professor precisely targets cancer cells with diagnostics and therapies using radioisotopes produced by FRIB.
A team of scientists, including researchers from FRIB, published an article in Nature Astronomy on the determination of the equation of state from nuclear experiments and neutron star observations.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) posted a highlight titled “The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams after one year of operation” about the experiments performed at FRIB in its first year of operation. DOE-SC posts about 200 published research findings annually, selected by their respective program areas in DOE-SC as publication highlights of special note.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) posted a highlight titled "Scientists probe the emergent structure of the carbon nucleus" about the FRIB research paper titled "Emergent geometry and duality in the carbon nucleus" published in Nature Communications. DOE-SC posts about 200 published research findings annually, selected by their respective program areas in DOE-SC as publication highlights of special note.
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Large Heavy Ion National Accelerator in France, and FRIB have shown that theoretical descriptions of the first excited state of helium-4 are now consistent with experimental data.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) posted a highlight titled “Statisticians and physicists team up to bring a machine learning approach to mining of nuclear data” about how Bayesian statistical methods help improve the predictability of complex computational models in experimentally unknown research. The authors of the publication are from FRIB and Skidmore College. Each year, scientists publish thousands of research findings in the scientific literature. About 200 of these are selected annually by their respective program areas in DOE-SC as publication highlights of special note.
A team of researchers, including a scientist from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, published a paper describing the major challenges in the field of the superheavy elements and speculate about future directions of the periodic table of the elements.
