External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.
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."
Hundreds of scientific and technical leaders in the superconducting radio frequency, or SRF, field converged in Michigan for the 21st International Conference on Radio-Frequency Superconductivity, or SRF 2023. The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, served as host for the premier conference, which ran June 25-30 in Grand Rapids.
By reanalyzing the distribution of active protons in nuclei, researchers found a possible solution to a particle physics puzzle involving quarks.
Hundreds of scientific and technical leaders in the superconducting radio frequency (SRF) field converged in Michigan for the 21st International Conference on Radio-Frequency Superconductivity (SRF 2023). FRIB served as host for the premier conference 25-30 June in Grand Rapids.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) posted a highlight titled “Nuclear charge distribution measurements may solve outstanding puzzle in particle physics” about the FRIB research paper titled “Model-independent determination of nuclear weak form factors and implications for standard model precision tests” published in Physical Review Letters. DOE-SC posts about 200 published research findings annually, selected by their respective program areas in DOE-SC as publication highlights of special note.
Particle accelerators boost charged particles to high speeds to study their collisions, offering invaluable insights into quantum physics. These devices, either linear or circular, enable scientists to understand particle interactions. The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science backs various particle accelerators across the country, contributing to advancements in particle acceleration and radiation generation research. The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University is a linear accelerator for studying exotic nuclei, especially isotopes.
In data collected during the first experiment at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams in Michigan, Timothy Gray of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and collaborators have found a previously unseen isomer of sodium-32 that has a wave function that calculations indicate could be spherical or deformed. The finding leaves open the possibility that they have observed the elusive excited spherical system.
Ion beams from oxygen to uranium contribute to research for applications and fundamental nuclear science at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). FRIB celebrated its on-budget, early completion with a ribbon-cutting ceremony in May 2022.
Kelly Chipps, a nuclear astrophysicist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and an FRIB scientific user, has been appointed to the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee. She is a former chairperson of the FRIB Users Organization Executive Committee.
BBC Sinhala interviewed Neshad Deva Pathirana, a graduate assistant at FRIB, about his research.
FRIB Experimental Systems Division Director Georg Bollen was interviewed as an expert for an article on a paper published recently in Physical Review Letters, in which physicists from Japan and South Korea describe the first successful measurement of the precise atomic mass of 19 exotic, neutron-rich isotopes.
