FRIB hosts international conference on heavy-ion accelerator technology

FRIB hosted the 16th International Conference on Heavy Ion Accelerator Technology (HIAT2025) from 22–27 June. The attendees at the event represented 44 organizations from 21 countries. This is the first time FRIB has hosted the conference.

HIAT is an international conference dedicated to the design, construction, development, and operation of stable and radioactive heavy-ion accelerators and their components. The conference emphasizes operational experience at existing facilities, recent achievements in accelerator physics and technology, progress in new projects and infrastructure upgrades, and emerging trends in accelerator design and applications.

Topics for HIAT2025 covered a wide range of accelerator science and technology, including circular accelerators and storage rings; room temperature and superconducting linacs; stable and radioactive ion beam facilities; accelerator systems and components; heavy ion beam instrumentation; operations, controls, and computations; ion sources, traps, and charge breeding; isotope separators technology; ion-material interaction, strippers, targets, and beam dumps; applications in medicine, materials, isotopes, space, and other areas; and new concepts and applications for heavy ion acceleration.

Michigan State University (MSU) operates the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) as a user facility for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC), with financial support from and furthering the mission of the DOE-SC Office of Nuclear Physics.