External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.
Scientists have measured the half-lives of five never-before-seen isotopes in a first demonstration of a research facility that will help probe the nuclear structures of elements. The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University allows scientists to study the so-called drip line, the point at which no more neutrons can be added to an atomic nucleus.
The first experiments at FRIB were completed over the summer of 2022. Even though the facility is currently running at only a fraction of its full power, multiple scientific collaborations working at FRIB have already produced and detected about 100 rare isotopes. These early results are helping researchers learn about some of the rarest physics in the universe.
A new study led by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has measured how long it takes for several kinds of exotic nuclei to decay. The paper, published today in Physical Review Letters, marks the first experimental result from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility operated by Michigan State University.
The first experiments at FRIB were completed over the summer of 2022. Even though the facility is currently running at only a fraction of its full power, multiple scientific collaborations working at FRIB have already produced and detected about 100 rare isotopes. These early results are helping researchers learn about some of the rarest physics in the universe.
The first experiments at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) were completed over the summer of 2022. Even though the facility is currently running at only a fraction of its full power, multiple scientific collaborations working at FRIB have already produced and detected about 100 rare isotopes. These early results are helping researchers learn about some of the rarest physics in the universe.
A multi-institutional team of scientific users have published the results of the first scientific experiment at Facility for Rare Isotope Beams in the journal Physical Review Letters. The experiment studied the decay of isotopes so unstable that they only exist for fractions of a second. To perform the study, the rare isotopes were implanted into the center of a sensitive detector known as the FRIB Decay Station initiator.
A new study has measured how long it takes for several kinds of exotic nuclei to decay. The paper marks the first experimental result from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. It is just a small taste of what's to come at the facility, which will become 400 times more powerful over the coming years.
Of Equal Place: Isotopes in Motion incorporates dance, video, and physics to create an exhilarating and engaging performance on Sunday, 6 November at 1:00 p.m. This project is a mass collaboration between Wharton Center, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), Dance Exchange, Happendance, Women and Minorities in Physical Sciences (WaMPS) community members, and students from Everett High School and Dwight Rich School of the Arts.
“Of Equal Place: Isotopes in Motion” premieres at Wharton Center’s Pasant Theatre at 1:00 p.m., Sunday, 6 November. It’s a work created by Dance Exchange, Happendance, the Wharton Center Institute for Arts and Creativity and the MSU Women and Minorities in the Physical Sciences. The concert is underwritten by the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University. The dance concert takes FRIB research and creates choreography that explores themes common to both nuclear physics and dance: stability and instability, measurement, acceleration, fragmentation and navigating mystery.
Discovery of neutron-laden isotope sodium-39 defies theoretical predictions. Researchers at Japan’s RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science created just a handful of sodium-39 nuclei. The first results from FRIB, which turned on in May, examine nuclei near sodium-39. Researchers at FRIB also shredded a beam of calcium-48 to create neutron-rich isotopes of magnesium, aluminum, silicon, and phosphorus—the elements following sodium—and measured how quickly they beta decay.
Nusair Hasan of the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams was recognized with CSA's 2022 Roger W. Boom Award at the Applied Superconductivity Conference in Honolulu for his outstanding work on the advancement of cryogenic processes and technology, specifically relating to large-scale 2 kelvin (K) and 4.5 K cryogenic refrigeration and critical supporting sub-systems for particle accelerators. Hasan has also made noteworthy contributions in training and mentoring future generations of cryogenic engineers.
FRIB scientists were among 18 authors from 11 institutions who summarized an explosion of artificial intelligence-aided work in a paper recently published in Reviews of Modern Physics.
