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Michigan State University hit a new milestone as the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, better known as the FRIB is almost complete. On 29 September, FRIB became a user facility under the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. It’s the latest step for the federally-supported facility.
The $730 million Facility for Rare Isotope Beams has been under construction for the better part of a decade and includes an underground central accelerator moving particles at half the speed of light. Electric construction for the state-of-the-art lab was provided by Detroit’s Shaw Electric and Superior Electric, Lansing, Michigan. For both contractors, this unique electrical project required a dive into physics to build and power a facility unlike any other.
A team of researchers, including scientists from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, or NSCL, at MSU, have made a discovery that could change how scientists understand fundamental forces acting inside atomic nuclei.
In the Physics Division of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, James (“Mitch”) Allmond conducts experiments and uses theoretical models to advance our understanding of the structure of atomic nuclei, which are made of various combinations of protons and neutrons (nucleons). Allmond currently looks forward to DOE’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). He is a leader developing instrumentation for FRIB, in particular the FRIB Decay Station, which is led by ORNL and University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
The ability to probe heavier elements will be used to further explore research on possible environments for making these elements. This research can help to target experiments at future nuclear physics accelerators such as the forthcoming Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), which is set to begin running experiments in 2022.
FRIB Chief Scientist Witek Nazarewicz co-authored the Nature Physics paper on "Measurement and microscopic description of odd–even staggering of charge radii of exotic copper isotopes."
A team of researchers, including scientists from FRIB and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University, have made a discovery that could change how scientists understand fundamental forces acting inside atomic nuclei.
A team of researchers, including scientists from FRIB and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University, have made a discovery that could change how scientists understand fundamental forces acting inside atomic nuclei.
Michigan State University Professor Alexandra Gade collaborated with international colleagues for a Reviews of Modern Physics article about the evolution of shell structure in exotic nuclei.
Michigan State University has the No. 1-ranked graduate program in nuclear physics, according to the U.S. News and World Report. That’s why the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science selected MSU to design, build and operate the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, which will be the world’s most advanced superconducting heavy-ion linear accelerator and our nation’s newest “discovery machine” when it becomes fully operational in 2022. (Note: This is MSU-sponsored content and may be blocked by ad-blocking software.)
More than 1,000 researchers from around the world will come to use Michigan State University's Facility for Rare Isotope Beams once it's finished in 2022. But first, they'll need to have their research work approved. That process will begin in the spring of 2020, when FRIB hosts a proposal preparation workshop. A subscription to the Lansing State Journal is required to view this article.
After more than five years of construction, Michigan State University’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, often referred to as FRIB, is nearing completion. A subscription to the Lansing State Journal is required to view this article.
