In the News
External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.
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.
New research from North Carolina State University and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University opens a new avenue for modeling low-energy nuclear reactions, which are key to the formation of elements within stars. The research lays the groundwork for calculating how nucleons interact when the particles are electrically charged.
Scientists from Australian National University, Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro in Italy, Ruđer Bošković Institute in Croatia, and FRIB challenged the current view of fusion and provided a framework for improved models of capture. Superheavy elements are synthesized at accelerator laboratories using nuclear fusion, where two atomic nuclei collide, stick together—or capture—and with low probability, evolve into a compact superheavy nucleus. Using collisions of calcium-40 and lead-208, the scientists observed 90 different partitions of protons and neutrons between projectile-like and target-like nuclei. The collisions experienced a mass and charge transfer between the nuclei before capture with an unexpectedly high probability and complexity. Since each collision is expected to have a different probability of fusion, it was concluded that the early stages of collisions may be crucial in superheavy element synthesis.
Practitioners of atomic, molecular, and optical (AMO) physics are increasingly applying their tools to the search for physics beyond the standard model, thanks largely to advances in precision-measurement techniques. A tabletop experiment that measures nuclear recoil during beta decay to look for sterile neutrinos—hypothetical particles that interact only via gravity—has led to a follow-on, the Superconducting Array for Low-Energy Radiation. SALER, which is setting up shop at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University, expands the use of rare-isotope-doped superconductors to search for a wide range of exotic new physics
