On 17 December, FRIB hosted approximately 130 members of the Michigan State University Retirees Association. Read More

FRIB site-restoration work is complete and both MSU-funded building additions will be complete this month. Read More

In October, FRIB staff installed all 24 cryomodules in the linear accelerator’s second segment (LS2). All of the LS2 cryomodules were cooled to 2 kelvin in November. Read More

Three members of the FRIB user community earned the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for 2019. Read More

Artemis Spyrou, professor of physics at FRIB and the MSU Department of Physics and Astronomy, was selected to be a member of the U.S. delegation to the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Seventh International Conference on Women in Physics. Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) has awarded three FRIB projects Accelerator Stewardship Awards. Read More

The DOE-SC Office of Project Assessment held its independent project review of FRIB 13-15 November. Read More

The National Science Foundation awarded a $2 million grant to the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics - Center for the Evolution of the Elements to create an international network of networks for nuclear astrophysics research. Read More

In October, FRIB staff completed installation of the linear accelerator’s (linac) first folding segment. The first folding segment connects the first and second linac segments. Read More

FRIB and MSU's Science Communication student organization presented a live-science art show on 19 October featuring “Physics Girl” Dianna Cowern. Read More

Five members of the FRIB user community were named 2019 American Physical Society (APS) Fellows: Daniel Bazin, Mahananda Dasgupta, Jutta Escher, Rituparna Kanungo, and Sofia Quaglioni. Read More

FRIB continues to make progress construction and site-restoration work. In August, artist Dee Briggs installed three large sculptures on the FRIB site, located between FRIB and the Wharton Center. Read More

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at MSU is hosting Dr. Charles Limb for a special talk titled “Musical creativity and the brain” as part of its Advanced Studies Gateway initiative. Read More

The Technical Systems Advisory Committee held a review of FRIB 1-3 October 2019. Read More

Kit Chapman, author of Superheavy: Making and Breaking the Periodic Table, will give a seminar at the FRIB Laboratory on 9 October. Read More

In September, FRIB staff energized the first half-wave-resonator cryomodule (β=0.29) in the FRIB linear accelerator tunnel. Read More

In September, FRIB’s electron-beam diagnostics system measured the thickness of the liquid-lithium film in the charge stripper for the first time at MSU. Read More

Researchers from the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University (MSU) and TRIUMF (Canada’s national particle accelerator) have observed a rare nuclear decay. Read More

FRIB will host the FRIB First Experiments: Proposal Preparation Workshop from 4-8 May 2020 at FRIB. (Update: In-person part postponed until fall; online presentations will take place in May) Read More

FRIB’s target module is ready for installation. FRIB staff achieved this project milestone on 11 September. Read More

FRIB hosted a two-week FRIB Theory Alliance Topical Program titled “Hadronic electric dipole moments in the FRIB era: From the proton to protactinium” from 12-23 August. Read More

FRIB staff successfully tested the radio-frequency quadrupole above the full design input power of 100 kilowatts in continuous-wave operation. Read More

From 27 July to 3 August, FRIB and NSCL hosted a program titled “Physicists Inspiring the Next Generation: Exploring the Nuclear Matter.” Read More

The 2019 Low Energy Community Meeting (LECM) was held 7-9 August at Duke University, hosted by the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory. Read More

Congressional staff members from Michigan’s U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives offices visited FRIB on 22 August. Read More

Impression 5 Science Center in Lansing opened an interactive science exhibit on 16 August that is inspired by the positive, life-changing nuclear science research happening now at MSU’s National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and in the future at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. Read More

The tremendous discovery potential of FRIB can be further extended with an energy upgrade of the FRIB linear accelerator to 400 MeV/u for uranium and to higher energies for lighter ions (FRIB400). Read More

Venkatarao Ganni, director of the MSU Cryogenic Initiative, professor of accelerator physics, and adjunct professor of mechanical engineering at Michigan State University, received the Samuel C. Collins Award given for lifetime achievement, at the 2019 Cryogenic Engineering Conference and International Cryogenic Materials Conference. Read More

The University of York recently presented Witek Nazarewicz, Hannah Distinguished Professor of Physics and chief scientist at FRIB, with an honorary degree. Read More

FRIB hosted the second Training in Advanced Low Energy Nuclear Theory (TALENT) Course 6 from 3-21 June. Read More

FRIB is registered under the ISO 45001 occupational health and safety standard after the successful external audit of FRIB’s Environment, Safety and Health Management System. Read More

After the successful 10-day-long unattended continuous operation of the liquid-lithium charge stripper, FRIB staff installed an electron-gun (E-gun) system into the stripper module. Read More

FRIB hosted the 2019 FRIB Theory Alliance (FRIB-TA) Summer School on machine learning in physics applications. Read More

The National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) hosted the 2019 Nuclear Science Summer School (NS3) from 12-18 May. Read More

The Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics - Center for the Evolution of the Elements (JINA-CEE) hosted The First Frontiers Summer School 15-18 May, at Michigan State University. Read More

The DOE-SC Office of Project Assessment held a review of FRIB 14-16 May. Read More

State Representative Julie Brixie and Legislative Director Nick Plescia from State Senator Rick Outman’s office visited FRIB with MSU Associate Vice President for State Relations David Bertram. Read More

On 9 May, WJR radio (760 AM) broadcast the Paul W. Smith Show from FRIB. The visit was part of the program’s Pure Michigan Tour. Read More

This year, the FRIB Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science awarded two visiting awards to Michelle Kuchera from Davidson College in North Carolina and Kyle Leach from the Colorado School of Mines. Read More

The Technical Systems Advisory Committee held its first review of FRIB 16-18 April 2019. Read More

In March 2019, FRIB became the world’s highest-energy continuous-wave hadron linear accelerator. Read More

Physicists believe that there were equal amounts of matter and antimatter in the early history of the universe – so how did the antimatter vanish? A Michigan State University researcher is part of a team that examines these questions in an article recently published in Reviews of Modern Physics. Read More

FRIB has achieved an important milestone by accelerating beams of neon, argon, krypton, and xenon through fifteen cryomodules. Read More

On 2 April, FRIB hosted U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Senior Advisor Kurt Heckman and Special Assistant Troy Hall. Read More

In March, FRIB successfully circulated liquid lithium in its charge stripper for more than seven days, relying only on remote monitoring. Read More

In March, the FRIB staff cooled the first of four superconducting dipole magnets for folding segment 2 (FS2D3) to 4 kelvin (K) in three days. Staff then successfully energized the magnet to its full field of 2 tesla (T). Read More

A number of summer schools are planned for 2019 to allow students and young researchers the opportunity to explore the world of science. Read More

In March, FRIB staff successfully cooled down the second of three legs of the facility’s cryogenic distribution system, making it operational. Read More

In February, FRIB placed the twelfth and final ß=0.29 cryomodule in the linear accelerator tunnel. Read More

A collaboration between FRIB and the Department of Statistics and Probability at MSU estimated the boundaries of nuclear existence in the calcium region with a full quantification of uncertainties, assessing the impact of the experimental discovery on nuclear structure research. Read More

The charge radii of three proton-rich calcium isotopes were found to be much smaller than previous theoretical predictions, and present a new puzzle. Read More

Researchers have written an article examining future challenges for the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements. Read More

Filomena Nunes, managing director for the FRIB Theory Alliance and professor of physics, will receive the William J. Beal Outstanding Faculty Award from Michigan State University (MSU) on 5 February. Read More

A new FRIB video shows the facility’s highlights and accomplishments that took place throughout 2018. Read More

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at MSU is hosting four speakers for the first season of FRIB Saturday Morning Physics, a new part of the Advanced Studies Gateway initiative Read More

In December 2018, FRIB cooled fifteen cryomodules along its first linear accelerator segment to 2 kelvin. Read More

In December 2018, FRIB completed testing of its thermal-imaging system for the primary beam. The system will monitor the heat signature of the area where the beam hits the target to create rare isotopes. Read More

The Engineering News-Record (ENR) Midwest recognized the FRIB Project in the Higher Education/Research category of its 2018 Best Projects award program. Read More

FRIB successfully placed concrete for the foundation slab of the High Rigidity Spectrometer (HRS) and Isotope Harvesting Vault. Read More