External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.
In 1921, Nobel laureate Otto Hahn discovered the first nuclear isomer, an atomic nucleus whose protons and neutrons are arranged differently from the common form of the element, causing it to have unusual properties. A century after Hahn first discovered isomers, scientists are still discovering new isomers using powerful research facilities around the world, including the the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University. This facility came online in May 2022, and hopes to unlock more than 1,000 new isotopes and isomers.
Takuji Kanemura and his colleagues at FRIB report on the success of an alternative charge-stripping method being used at FRIB, which they say overcomes the limitations of other charge-stripping techniques
Yahoo News UK included the Guardian’s “New U.S. lab to create versions of atoms never recorded on Earth” article (16 May 2022) in its news feed. Click the link in the item listed below to see the article on the Guardian’s website.
From carbon to uranium, oxygen to iron, chemical elements are the building blocks of the world around us and the wider universe. Now, physicists are hoping to gain an unprecedented glimpse into their origins, with the opening of a new facility that will create thousands of peculiar and unstable versions of atoms never before recorded on Earth.
FRIB is home to the world's most powerful heavy ion accelerator. The technology required innovation and not just from the scientists. In 2014, Gunthorpe Plumbing and Heating in East Lansing, in a joint venture with Limbach, got a contract to work on the $730 million nuclear science research facility.
The world's most powerful heavy-ion accelerator—which will create new exotic atoms and reveal how stars and supernovas forge the elements that make up our universe—is finally completed, researchers announced 2 May. Experiments at the $730 million Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University are slated to start this week. Once online, the new reactor will fire two heavy atomic nuclei at each other, splitting them apart in ways that enable scientists to study what glues them together and how rare atomic isotopes—versions of chemical elements with different numbers of neutrons in their nuclei—are structured.
The nuclear physics community is hailing the kickoff of a long-awaited facility for producing beams of radioactive isotopes, with a cohort of users gearing up for the first experiments. The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University opens its doors to experimenters this week. FRIB is expected to deliver the widest range of rare isotopes of any existing facility, including many never-before-synthesized isotopes.
Michigan State University believes its Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) will unlock the door to new discoveries—and scientists could find the first key this week. 11 May is the first time scientists will blast a particle beam from FRIB's 400-kilowatt linear accelerator at full power. A subscription to the Lansing State Journal is required to view this article.
Michigan State University’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams officially opened yesterday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, elected officials, and guests who had supported the project during its planning and construction, including ANS Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer Craig Piercy. They were there to celebrate the completion—on time and within budget—of the world’s most powerful heavy-ion accelerator and the first accelerator-based Department of Energy Office of Science user facility located on a university campus.
Government and university leaders including U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm gathered on 2 May in East Lansing to cut a green ribbon at Michigan State's Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, officially opening the lab after two decades of work. The facility, known as FRIB, is anchored by a 400-kilowatt linear accelerator that scientists hope will lead to groundbreaking discoveries in nuclear physics. A subscription to the Lansing State Journal is required to view this article.
The ribbon was cut Monday morning to open the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), a research facility at Michigan State University where scientists can accelerate ions at up to half the speed of light. Those ions will hit a target, with collisions that will produce rare isotopes that could lead to advancements in the fight against cancer and perhaps unlock the secrets of the universe.
Government and university leaders including U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm gathered on 2 May in East Lansing to cut a green ribbon at Michigan State's Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, officially opening the lab after two decades of work.
