2017 FRIB News
29 December 2017
Due to the focused efforts of its staff, the FRIB cryogenic plant was completed in December 2017. It is now operational, and is on track to operate in 2018. This...
18 December 2017
FRIB’s heavy-ion beam will begin with a high-performance source of heavy ions, the electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) source. A key component of the ECR source is an advanced superconducting magnet...
15 December 2017
Today the MSU Board of Trustees (BOT) authorized FRIB to begin planning for new additions to the facility. A 12,000-square-foot Cryogenic Assembly Building adjacent to the existing Superconducting Radio Frequency...
08 December 2017
Scientists from around the globe participated in a livestream event on 1 December to discuss the nuclear science impacts of the groundbreaking discovery of gravitational waves from two colliding neutron...
08 December 2017
The DOE-SC Office of Project Assessment’s (OPA) review of FRIB was held 5-7 December. The main focus of the review was to assess overall FRIB Project progress since the last...
28 November 2017
The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics – Center for the Evolution of the Elements will host a livestream event at 12:30 p.m. (EST) on 1 December, featuring scientists who will...
22 November 2017
FRIB marked significant accelerator progress this past fall, with the successful commissioning of the front end. FRIB’s front end – where the ion beam will start – was completed in...
16 November 2017
The FRIB cryogenic plant made its first liquid helium at 4.5 kelvin (K) on 16 November 2017. Making cold helium is critical to operating FRIB’s linear accelerator. FRIB’s beam-accelerating cryomodules...
16 November 2017
Michigan State University is establishing an Accelerator Science and Engineering Traineeship (AS&E) program to address a national shortage in accelerator scientists and engineers. The AS&E program will bring together MSU’s...
13 November 2017
FRIB installed its first warm diagnostic chambers between the β=0.041 quarter-wave resonator cryomodules in its linear accelerator tunnel on 8 November. The warm diagnostic chambers house instruments that provide diagnostic...
03 November 2017
Dr. Dimitri Kusnezov, chief scientist of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in the U.S. Department of Energy, and senior advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Energy, visited FRIB on...
03 November 2017
The first FRIB superconducting β=0.085 cryomodule was installed in its final position in FRIB’s linear accelerator tunnel on 1 November. After being lowered through the access shaft, and moved through...
24 October 2017
Bradley M. Sherrill, director of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) and scientific director at FRIB at Michigan State University (MSU), was awarded the 2018 Tom W. Bonner Prize in...
20 October 2017
FRIB is featured in the city of Detroit's video pitch for development of a second headquarters for Amazon. Read the full article on WKAR's website . View the video online...
13 October 2017
National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) Associate Director for Experimental Research Remco Zegers has been elected as a 2017 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). APS is a nonprofit membership...
12 October 2017
Professor Steven Lund of Michigan State University has been named the new director of the U.S. Particle Accelerator School (USPAS) . His four-year renewable term begins on Dec. 1. He...
MSU’s Contreras-Martinez, Ready selected for DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program
11 October 2017
Two Michigan State University physics and astronomy graduate students—Crispin Contreras-Martinez and Roy Ready—were among 52 graduate students from across the nation selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for...
06 October 2017
Three nuclear physics research projects involving Michigan State University researchers have won grants from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC). The five-year awards are part of the...
03 October 2017
The FRIB Theory Alliance is seeking outstanding candidates for an FRIB Theory Fellowship. The successful candidate will conduct independent or collaborative research at a Partner Institution on nuclear structure, astrophysics...
20 September 2017
U.S. Representative John Moolenaar visited FRIB today. FRIB Project Director Thomas Glasmacher hosted Moolenaar during his visit, giving a presentation about the project’s progress and leading a tour of the...
13 September 2017
The first of twelve β=0.29 cryomodules was placed in the linear accelerator tunnel on 13 September. FRIB Project personnel moved the beamline from the assembly room and lowered it through...
07 September 2017
A new collaboration between nuclear physics and the statistical sciences at Michigan State University (MSU) is bringing together FRIB and the Department of Statistics and Probability (STT) . As part...
25 August 2017
Two scientists who perform research at FRIB have received U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Early Career Research Program awards. The program, in its eighth year, awards financial...
11 August 2017
The Low-Energy Community Meeting was held 3-4 August at Argonne National Laboratory. Two-hundred and fifteen participants attended. The annual meeting serves as a time for nuclear scientists in the low-energy...
03 August 2017
The FRIB Laboratory, which includes the FRIB Project and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University, is making an economic impact across the United States. From October 2011...
31 July 2017
The first Accelerator Readiness Review (ARR) of FRIB was held 25-27 July, four years prior to the planned early completion of the FRIB Project. The purpose of the review was...
28 July 2017
Researchers from the FRIB Theory Alliance are probing the limits of what can be considered an atomic nucleus, calculating the possible existence of a tetraneutron, or a four-neutron nucleus. All...
21 July 2017
Last year, FRIB and NSCL initiated the FRIB Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science. The goal of the program is to encourage and help junior researchers to establish a research...
21 July 2017
FRIB Project personnel placed the first and only β=0.085 matching cryomodule in the linear accelerator tunnel on 17 July. The matching cryomodule is about half the size of the other...
07 July 2017
Witold (Witek) Nazarewicz, FRIB chief scientist and a John A. Hannah distinguished professor at Michigan State University, received the 2017 Flerov Prize for his research titled “Theoretical studies of the...
07 July 2017
The DOE-SC Office of Project Assessment’s (OPA) review of FRIB was held 27-29 June. The main focus of the review was to assess overall FRIB Project progress since the last...
22 June 2017
Michigan State University Distinguished Professor Michael Thoennessen has been named editor in chief of the American Physical Society. The APS editor in chief is responsible for all APS peer-reviewed research...
09 June 2017
The fifteenth meeting of the FRIB Accelerator Systems Advisory Committee (ASAC) was held from 30 May to 1 June. This meeting was held without its esteemed chair Dr. Satoshi Ozaki...
01 June 2017
Andrew Rogers, the first FRIB Visiting Scholar for Experimental Science , spent his time at FRIB preparing for an experiment to explore isomers in the neutron-rich hafnium region. While at...
30 May 2017
FRIB has installed two vertical beamline sections in its front-end area. On 1 May, the first of the two vertical beamline sections was installed and aligned in the vertical shaft...
12 May 2017
The Experimental Systems Advisory Committee (ESAC) held a review of FRIB experimental systems 3-5 May. The focus of the review was to assess whether remaining scope, estimated cost to completion...
31 March 2017
Civil construction on the FRIB Project achieved beneficial occupancy on 24 March. Beneficial occupancy is the stage of construction in which the facility can be used for its intended purpose...
22 March 2017
The sixteenth Exotic Beam Summer School (EBSS2017) will be held at Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory from 23-29 July. The Exotic Beams Summer School offers students and young researchers the...
10 March 2017
The assembly and installation of all components and diagnostics for the upper Low Energy Beam Transport (LEBT) line was completed on 6 March. It was then connected to the Advanced...
03 March 2017
The first FRIB superconducting β=0.041 cryomodule was installed on the beamline in FRIB’s linear accelerator tunnel on 1 March. While this is the third cryomodule to be moved to the...
28 February 2017
The FRIB Project reached another significant milestone in February with the successful testing of the first half-wave resonator cryomodule. Since half-wave-resonators (HWRs) make up two-thirds of the FRIB linear accelerator...
03 February 2017
Filomena Nunes, managing director for the FRIB Theory Alliance and professor of physics, received MSU’s 2017 Inspirational Woman of the Year Award in the Professional Achievement category. Administered by the...
27 January 2017
In December 2016, the radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ) was assembled and tuned in FRIB's linear accelerator tunnel, marking a significant technical milestone for the FRIB Project. The RFQ is a...
13 January 2017
Civil construction of the FRIB Project is scheduled to reach beneficial occupancy in March 2017. Beneficial occupancy is the stage of civil construction at which, before final completion, the facility...