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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.
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.
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.
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."
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, 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.
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.
