External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.
Using data collected from the first experiment at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, Timothy Gray of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory led a study that may have revealed an unexpected change in the shape of an atomic nucleus. The surprise finding could affect our understanding of what holds nuclei together, how protons and neutrons interact and how elements form.
USA Today published the Detroit Free Press article about FRIB ("At an MSU lab, the secrets of the atom—and the universe—are being discovered"), originally published 4 August in the Free Press. (A subscription is required to read the article.)
At a large, new facility on Michigan State University's campus, the boundaries of nuclear science are being taken further than they've ever gone before. And scientists from around the world are lining up to get involved. The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, is a three-decade dream. The $730 million facility took almost 14 years to build, and was made possible by more than $635.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science and $94.5 million from the state of Michigan.
The U.S. Department of Energy has granted more than $500 million to the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University. Located on the Michigan State University campus, FRIB offers a unique scientific service for the nation: the creation of rare isotopes.
At the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams on Michigan State University's campus, the boundaries of nuclear science are being taken further than they've ever gone before. And scientists from around the world are lining up to get involved. (A subscription is required to read the article.)
Michigan State University’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams is entering into a joint research venture with the French government’s largest scientific research organization. The International Research Laboratory on Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics will be a small venture to start, bringing perhaps three or four French scientists along with their students and post-doctoral researchers to the massive federally funded nuclear science research facility on MSU’s campus.
An international partnership with France looks to unlock some of the mysteries of the universe, and it’s going to be based at the campus of Michigan State University. The hub for this new program will be at the new Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. With the 5 year partnership, scientists hope the program will advance our understanding of physics at both the atomic scale and the astronomical scale.
The French research organization Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) will establish an international research laboratory at Michigan State University. The two entities will sign a five-year agreement to establish an international research lab on nuclear physics and astrophysics. The CNRS had 80 international labs across the world, but this is the first dedicated to nuclear physics and astrophysics. The new lab will be located at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.
Michigan State University has entered an agreement with French research organization Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique to establish a research lab on its campus, at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. A subscription to Crain's Detroit Business is required to view this article.
A new research lab, to be housed at Michigan State University's Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, will be known as the International Research Laboratory on Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics. A subscription to The Detroit News is required to view this article.
Florida State University Assistant Professor of Physics Kevin Fossez is a recipient of a 2023 Faculty Early Career Development Award, or CAREER Award, from the National Science Foundation for his work investigating how to better predict properties of new combinations of protons and neutrons at the limits of nuclear stability. Fossez currently serves as bridge faculty for the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) Theory Alliance, a coalition of scientists from universities and national laboratories who seek to foster advancements in theory related to diverse areas of FRIB science.
The extracted value of "Vud" from nuclear beta decays seems to be substantially smaller than what is required by the Standard Model of Particle Physics, the commonly-acknowledged best theory for elementary particle physics. This observed anomaly stimulates vibrant discussions of possibilities of new physics discoveries. To study its origin, researchers at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University investigated the so-called "nuclear weak distribution."
