External news and journal publications discussing FRIB science.
Supported by a new Strategic Partnership Grant from the Michigan State University Research Foundation, an interdisciplinary team will establish a framework on MSU’s campus that streamlines the development of a promethium-149-based radiopharmaceutical as an effective prostate cancer therapeutic. This integrated system will use cutting-edge facilities including the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB; the Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering, better known as IQ; as well as newly expanded radiochemistry laboratories in MSU’s Department of Chemistry.
A recent paper in Nature Physics – written by Alexandra Gade, professor of physics at FRIB and in MSU's Department of Physics and Astronomy and FRIB scientific director, and Michael Thoenneson, University Distinguished Professor of physics at MSU – highlights isotope discovery, including a feature on FRIB.
“Of Equal Place: Isotopes in Motion,” a collaboration between Michigan State University’s Wharton Center and FRIB and national dance company Dance Exchange, returned to the stage for the first time since its 2022 premiere on 14 November at Wharton’s Cobb Great Hall.
Wabash College profiles James Szalkie, who interned with Michigan State University’s BEam COoler and LAser spectroscopy (BECOLA) group at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) this past summer, where he performed precision measurement experiments via collinear laser spectroscopy. His main project was to develop a python program to detect contaminants in the beamline using machine learning.
The U.S. Department of Energy is investing an additional $527 million into a cutting-edge isotopes research facility at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University, where scientific breakthroughs are coming ever more frequently.
At the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, researchers have precisely measured the mass of aluminum-22, revealing insights into the “proton dripline” and the delicate balance of nuclear forces. Their findings offer a deeper understanding of how atomic nuclei behave at their stability limits and provide a critical test of nuclear theories through the observation of phenomena like proton halos.
The U.S. Department of Energy is investing an additional $527 million into a cutting-edge isotopes research facility at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University, where scientific breakthroughs are coming ever more frequently. (A subscription is required to read the article.)
The Lansing State Journal published the Detroit Free Press article about FRIB ("MSU rare isotope facility, in demand by scientists worldwide, awarded $529M"), originally published on 30 November in the Free Press (A subscription is required to read the article.)
Staff from The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) Low Energy Beam and Ion Trap (LEBIT) facility take high-energy, rare-isotope beams generated at FRIB and cool them to a lower energy state. Afterward, the researchers measure specific particles' masses at high precision. The LEBIT team recently published a research paper that used the facility to take a step in verifying the mass of aluminum-22. Researchers think this exotic isotope demonstrates a rare but interesting property—specifically, that the nucleus is surrounded by a "halo" of protons that loosely orbit the nucleus. This halo structure reveals distinctive physical properties during its fleeting existence.
New resident artist Violeta López López is the second artist to participate in the MSUFCU Arts Power Up Arts Residency at FRIB Program. The young initiative offers an innovative combination of art and science, encouraging students to explore both from new perspectives.
“Of Equal Place: Isotopes in Motion,” a collaboration between Michigan State University’s Wharton Center and FRIB and national dance company Dance Exchange, returned to the stage for the first time since its 2022 premiere on 14 November at Wharton’s Cobb Great Hall.
An international team of researchers, led by scientists from FRIB, uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and supernovae are inconsistent with observational gamma-ray astronomy. The discovery came after the team used an innovative new experimental method to investigate uncertain nuclear properties of an unstable isotope.
