In the News
External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.
From nuclear physics to elementary and secondary education, MSU has five graduate programs ranked by U.S. News and World Reports this year as the best in the nation.
Oganesson (Og) is the heaviest chemical element in the periodic table, but its properties have proved difficult to measure since it was first synthesised in 2002. Now an advanced computer simulation has filled in some of the gaps, and it turns out the element is even weirder than many expected.
Scientists (including Peter Schwerdtfeger of the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study and Witold Nazarewicz of Michigan State University) have been involved in calculating the structure of oganesson, a relatively new element which has proved elusive to study.
FRIB’s state-of-the-art cryogenic infrastructure is accessible to MSU’s engineering and physics programs, providing a wide range of opportunities for students interested in many aspects of cryogenic engineering.
MSU is planning to invest an additional $35 million in FRIB to maximize the facility's potential as a world-leading research facility. MSU's board approved the start of planning for a project that would add a new building. The project would also include the addition of a high-rigidity spectrometer.
Astronomers wowed the world when they announced that they had seen two neutron stars merge, apparently creating heavy elements such as gold and platinum and spewing them into space. Nuclear physicists at MSU also cheered the find.
MSU is establishing an Accelerator Science and Engineering Traineeship program to address a national shortage in accelerator scientists and engineers.
Scientists (including Peter Schwerdtfeger of the New Zealand Institute for Advanced Study and Witold Nazarewicz of Michigan State University) have been involved in calculating the structure of oganesson, a relatively new element which has proved elusive to study.
Electron localization suggests that electrons are no longer confined to distinct orbitals in oganesson (element 118) and are distributed evenly.
Michigan State University’s yet-to-be completed massive physics research facility is about to achieve an important milestone. In the next three to four weeks, MSU’s Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, also known as FRIB, will accelerate its first particles.
In his book "Up From Nothing: The Michigan State University Cyclotron Laboratory," former National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory director Sam M. Austin traces the origins of the world-class lab from its genesis in 1958 and construction in 1963 to the ongoing development of the state-of-the-art Facility for Rare Beam Isotopes.
The 2017 Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) Flerov Prize has been awarded to Witold Nazarewicz of Michigan State University for his contribution to the theoretical understanding of the properties of the heaviest elements.
