External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.
After 13 years, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams is up and running. It was designed to help scientists answer fundamental questions about the formation of the elements, the structure of matter, how stars and born and how they die. And now it's ready.
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), under construction in the heart of Michigan State’s campus since 2014, opens this week. This is a watershed moment in our community, and a success story worthy of celebration. FRIB, located in the heart of Michigan State's campus, opens this week. The project, which has spanned two decades, is a real victory for all of Greater Lansing. The $730 million project originated in 2008, when the U.S. Department of Energy selected MSU from a pool of prestigious candidates across the globe. A subscription to the Lansing State Journal is required to view this editorial.
As many as 1,600 scientists from around the globe are expected to work at times in the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, on Michigan State University’s campus. A ribbon-cutting Monday, attended by U.S. Secretary of Energy and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, will mark the official opening of the FRIB.
One of nuclear physicists’ top wishes is about to come true. After a decades-long wait, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, a $942 million accelerator in Michigan is officially inaugurating on 2 May. Its experiments will chart unexplored regions of the landscape of exotic atomic nuclei and shed light on how stars and supernova explosions create most of the elements in the Universe.
A deblurring technique pioneered in optics could correct for measurement-induced smearing of particle distributions in a high-energy nuclear collision experiment.
Daniel Puentes, a doctoral student in physics at FRIB, was featured in MSUToday for the radio podcast he co-hosts, The Sci-Files. On the show, he interviews Spartan students about their scientific research projects. Puentes has his own research projects, as well.
A U.S. and Chinese team has now created the lightest magnesium isotope known—with too few neutrons to exist for more than moments—at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University.
Magnesium is the eighth-most abundant element in Earth’s crust. The new isotope is the world’s lightest magnesium. “It’s pretty exciting. It’s not every day people discover a new isotope.” Forged at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University, the new magnesium isotope is so unstable, it falls apart before scientists can measure it directly. Yet this isotope that isn’t keen on existing can help researchers better understand how the atoms that define our existence are made.
Scientists have just created the world's lightest form of magnesium—a never-before-seen isotope with just six neutrons in its atomic nuclei—inside the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University.
FRIB is featured in a list of Science's areas to watch in 2022. The fleeting atomic nuclei normally forged only in stellar explosions will find a home on Earth after the $730 million FRIB fires up at Michigan State University. The world’s most powerful ion source, the linear accelerator can fire any nucleus—from hydrogen’s single proton to uranium atoms’ massive core—into targets to produce new, unstable nuclei.
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) posted a highlight about the FRIB-affiliated Lee Research Group’s research paper titled “Rodeo Algorithm for Quantum Computing” 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.
FRIB was featured in a list of themes set to shape research in 2022. The multi-stage accelerator aims to synthesize thousands of new isotopes of known elements, and it will investigate nuclear structure and the physics of neutron stars and supernova explosions.
