2018 News Archive
Associate Professor of Physics and NSCL Associate Director for Education and Outreach Artemis Spyrou received the 2018 Graduate Academic Advisor Award from the MSU College of Natural Science.
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In November 2018, FRIB installed the first of five unique superconducting warm-iron quadrupole magnets. This milestone was reached following magnet design, construction, assembly, and testing.
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This year, the FRIB Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science awarded visiting awards to Ben Crider from Mississippi State University and Matt Amthor from Bucknell University.
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The American Physical Society awarded former NSCL graduate student Barbara Jacak the 2019 Tom W. Bonner Prize in Nuclear Physics. The Bonner Prize is awarded annually to recognize and encourage outstanding experimental research in nuclear physics.
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FRIB invites the community to a piano recital on 10 December and public talk on 14 December in Room 1300 FRIB Laboratory.
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NSCL Associate Director for Experimental Research Remco Zegers has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.
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The American Physical Society awarded former NSCL graduate student Ania Kwiatkowski with the 2018 Stuart Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics. The award recognizes outstanding early career experimentalists in nuclear physics.
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The Engineering News-Record Midwest recognized the FRIB Project in the Higher Education/Research category of its 2018 Best Projects award program.
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GRETA, a new high-resolution gamma-ray detector system that will be used at FRIB, has achieved an important project milestone – Critical Decision-3a (CD-3a) approval by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science.
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The FRIB Laboratory has successfully passed its first annual Information Security Management System audit and is now registered to the external ISO 27001 information security standard.
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The Department of Energy Office of Science’s Office of Project Assessment’s review of FRIB was held 6-8 November.
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Three members of the FRIB user community were named 2018 American Physical Society (APS) Fellows: Scott Bogner, Gaute Hagen, and Kate Jones.
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The Experimental Systems Advisory Committee held a review of FRIB experimental systems 16-18 October.
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Paul Gueye, an associate professor of physics at FRIB, recently met with government representatives, and local and international experts in Senegal, West Africa, to discuss a nuclear physics bridge training program.
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MSU nominated Garrett King, a student research assistant at NSCL, for the Marshall Scholarship. It is a national scholarship that supports up to forty U.S. students to study at a graduate level at a United Kingdom institution in any field of study.
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FRIB staff have successfully completed the repeatability testing for maintenance of the laboratory’s magnets.
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Recently, FRIB successfully completed beam-instrumentation testing. Beam instrumentation ensures that FRIB’s heavy-ion beam – the highest power heavy-ion beam in the world--doesn’t damage the linear accelerator.
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The Accelerator Systems Advisory Committee (ASAC) held its eighteenth meeting 2-4 October.
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On 3 August, FRIB successfully circulated liquid lithium and established a lithium film in its charge stripper. FRIB is the first in the world to use liquid lithium as a charge stripper.
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FRIB and the Department of Statistics and Probability at MSU have formed a new collaboration between nuclear physics and the statistical sciences to help determine the existence of rare isotopes.
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FRIB's beam-energy upgrade would double beam energy and yield higher intensities of rare isotope beams.
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A new video highlights FRIB from its conception to its future, and features an animation showing how rare isotopes are created.
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A new vision system will allow remote-handling operators to view and record work taking place.
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In 2017, FRIB established the MSU Cryogenic Initiative with the MSU College of Engineering, and MSU established an Accelerator Science and Engineering Traineeship program.
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FRIB invites the community to a harp recital at the laboratory on 14 September in Room 1300 FRIB Laboratory.
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More than 200 scientists from around the world participated in the Nuclear Structure 2018 conference at FRIB.
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FRIB and NSCL provided 4,000 tours to members of the public during the open house on 18 August.
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The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Office of Nuclear Physics awarded a two-year grant to Dr. Yue Hao for his research on beam dynamics for electron-ion colliders. Hao is an associate professor of physics at FRIB and has a joint appointment in the MSU Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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FRIB achieved a major milestone by accelerating its first beams in three of forty-six superconducting cryomodules.
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MSU will host the 36th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory from 22-28 July.
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On 16 July, FRIB hosted Dr. Chris Fall, principal deputy director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.
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FRIB invites the community to a public talk on quantum computing and the entanglement frontier at the laboratory on 27 July.
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Researchers from MSU and the RIKEN Nishina Center in Japan discovered eight new rare isotopes of the elements phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, argon, potassium, scandium and, most importantly, calcium. These are the heaviest isotopes of these elements ever found.
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FRIB invites the community to a piano recital at the laboratory on 20 July in Room 1300 FRIB Laboratory.
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The FRIB Laboratory is entering the eighth year of its nuclear engineering partnership with the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium (NSSC). Funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration, eight universities comprise NSSC.
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Two scientists who perform research at NSCL and will perform research at FRIB have received U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Research Program awards.
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On 27 June, FRIB hosted Professor Dr. Richard Baum of the Theranostics Center for Molecular Radiotherapy and Molecular Imaging, Zentralklinik Bad Berka, in Germany.
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Two scientists who perform research at NSCL and will perform research at FRIB have received U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Early Career Research Program awards.
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The public is invited to get behind the scenes at FRIB and NSCL during an open house scheduled for Saturday, 18 August. The event will run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with last tours starting at 4 p.m.
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The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science’s Office of Nuclear Physics awarded the “Isotope Development and Production for Research and Applications” grant to an MSU chemistry professor.
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MSU is hosting the summer 2018 session of the U.S. Particle Accelerator School, a national graduate-level training and workforce development program in accelerator science and engineering.
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As the 150th anniversary of the formulation of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements looms, a Michigan State University professor probes the table’s limits in a recent Nature Physics "Perspective."
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FRIB continues technical construction, and another significant milestone has been reached with all cryomodules now in production.
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The ISO9001 quality management system (QMS) audit was completed in May by FRIB’s external certification body, National Sanitation Foundation-International Strategic Relations.
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FRIB hosted a soprano and piano recital at the laboratory on 25 May, featuring soprano Lia Naviliat-Cuncic and pianist Manuel Vieillard.
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FRIB Homeland Security Officer Melissa Congleton has received the Ruth Jameyson “Above and Beyond” Award from MSU. This award recognizes support staff members who are pursuing a post-baccalaureate degree while also performing "above and beyond” in the scope of their duties at MSU.
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The DOE-SC Office of Project Assessment’s review of FRIB was held 15-17 May. The main focus of the review was to assess overall progress since the last review in December 2017.
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FRIB invites the community to a soprano and piano recital at the laboratory on 25 May in Room 1300 FRIB Laboratory.
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FRIB is hosting a summer school focused on the scientific discoveries resulting from the recent observation of a neutron-star merger.
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From "The Conversation": Nearly 70 years ago, astronomer Paul Merrill observed the light coming from a distant star and saw signatures of the element technetium.
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Gabriel Moreau, a research assistant for Professor Oscar Naviliat-Cuncic at NSCL and in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been named a recipient of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship.
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The Accelerator Systems Advisory Committee (ASAC) met 10-12 April. ASAC focused on the progress of FRIB’s Accelerator Systems Division in the last six months.
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FRIB’s target module assembly is complete and it has passed first mechanical tests.
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FRIB, with support from NSCL, has designed and built a field mapper for use on the magnets of the fragment separator, which will remove contaminants from the beam and collect the desired isotopes for research. The mapper design is the first of its kind for the laboratory.
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The second FRIB Decay Station workshop was held in January 2018. The Decay Station will be a modular and flexible multi-detector system for study of nuclear decays.
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A number of summer schools are planned for 2018 to allow students and young researchers the opportunity to explore the world of science.
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Michigan State University's nuclear physics graduate program maintained its No. 1 ranking, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report ranking for best graduate schools.
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The seventeenth Exotic Beam Summer School (EBSS2018) will be held at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory from 24-30 June.
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Alexandra Gade, professor of physics and NSCL chief scientist, received the 2018 William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award from MSU.
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Today the MSU Board of Trustees (BOT) authorized FRIB to proceed with plans for new additions to the facility.
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Music composer David Biedenbender from the MSU Music Department won the 138th annual American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize for his work titled “Cyclotron.”
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FRIB continues technical construction, and another significant milestone has been reached with all cryomodules now in production. Cryomodules are key components of FRIB’s superconducting linear accelerator.
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