Michigan State University (MSU) researchers have discovered that one of the most important reactions in the universe can get a huge and unexpected boost inside exploding stars known as supernovae...

Three scientists who will perform research at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as...

Update (July 2021): The PAC1 meeting has been rescheduled for 5-6 and 12-13 August 2021. Marking an exciting step toward commencing scientific user operation, FRIB issued its first call for...

Ranked #1 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, MSU’s nuclear physics graduate program leverages the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) and the next-generation facility under construction now...

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Office of Project Assessment (OPA) held its independent project review of FRIB via remote participation 3-5 November. The main focus of...

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science has approved the project baseline (Critical Decision 2, the integrated scope, cost, and schedule) and the start of construction (Critical Decision 3)...

Quantum mechanics, the physics of atoms and subatomic particles, can be strange, especially compared to the everyday physics of Isaac Newton’s falling apples. But this unusual science is enabling researchers...

The Technical Systems Advisory Committee (TSAC) held a review of FRIB via remote participation 29 September – 1 October. The main focus of the review was to assess overall FRIB...

EAST LANSING, Mich. — The U.S. Department of Energy has designated the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University as a DOE Office of Science user facility. U.S...

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Office of Nuclear Physics approved Critical Decision 1 (CD-1: Approve Alternative Selection and Cost Range) for the High Rigidity Spectrometer (HRS)...

FRIB hosted or contributed to a number of online summer schools and seminars to allow students, educators, and early-career scientists the opportunity to explore the world of science. “The rapid...

The 2020 Low Energy Community Meeting (LECM) was held online 10-12 August, jointly hosted by the FRIB Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory. Over the course of the three days, 585...

In March, nuclear physicists using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies participated in a workshop at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab). The workshop brought together experimentalists and theorists representing...

In January, FRIB partnered with Argonne National Laboratory to plan the development of SOLARIS, a dual-mode spectrometer for a broad range of reactions studies at FRIB using reaccelerated beams. SOLARIS...

The FRIB Users Executive Committee (UEC) elections wrapped up in January, when Zach Meisel (Ohio University), Melina Avila (Argonne National Laboratory) and Kelly Chipps (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) were elected...

FRIB completed assembly and testing of all baseline cryomodules on 11 June. The baseline cryomodules contain superconducting resonators that accelerate FRIB’s heavy-ion beam while operating at temperatures a few degrees...

Michigan State University (MSU) researchers from the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) were awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to develop an instrument that will lead to breakthroughs in...

Researchers from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) Laboratory at Michigan State University (MSU) have taken a major step toward a theoretical first-principles description of neutrinoless double-beta decay. Observing...

FRIB will host a number of online summer schools to allow students and early-career scientists the opportunity to explore the world of science. Physics of Atomic Nuclei (PAN) @ Michigan...

Three scientists who will perform research at FRIB have received U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Early Career Research Program awards. The program, now in its eleventh year...

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Nuclear Physics Facilities and Project Management Division and the National Science Foundation Nuclear Physics Program held the annual progress review of the SEparator...

Michigan State University (MSU) students Jacob Watkins and Erin White have earned three-year fellowships from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Both Watkins and White are graduate...

EAST LANSING, Mich. – Five Michigan State University (MSU) researchers from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) and the Department of Statistics and Probability (STT) are participating in a...

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Office of Project Assessment (OPA) held its independent project review of FRIB via remote participation 12-14 May. The main focus of...

FRIB is hosting a number of online summer seminars to allow scientists, theorists, and users the opportunity to discuss and explore a variety of science topics. FRIB Theory Alliance Training...

Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Mark Spieker from Florida State University are the award recipients for the FRIB Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science...

The FRIB First Experiments: Proposal Preparation Workshop was held online 4-8 May. The workshop offered FRIB users support for preparing proposals for consideration by the first FRIB Program Advisory Committee...

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Office of Project Assessment conducted a DOE-SC Independent Project Review of the High Rigidity Spectrometer (HRS) project 28-30 April. The review...

The Technical Systems Advisory Committee (TSAC) held a review of FRIB via remote participation 21-23 April. The main focus of the review was to assess overall FRIB Project development since...

In an atomic nucleus, protons and neutrons, collectively called nucleons, are bound together by nuclear forces. These forces describe the interactions between nucleons, which cause them to occupy states grouped...

A team of researchers, including scientists from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University (MSU), have made a discovery...

Michigan State University (MSU) student Maya Watts, a student research assistant at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) Laboratory, has earned the 2019-2020 Jefferson Science Associates Minority/Female Undergraduate Research...

On 19 March 2020, FRIB accelerated an argon-36 beam through 37 of 46 superconducting cryomodules to 204 million electron-volts per nucleon (MeV/nucleon) or 57 percent of the speed of light...

The FRIB First Experiments: Proposal Preparation Workshop 4-8 May has moved to an online format due to the COVID-19 situation. The workshop is an opportunity for users to obtain support...

The Michigan State University (MSU) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering hosted the All-Hands meeting of the Honeywell- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Security Campus (NSC) Radar Consortium on...

On 13 February, FRIB hosted Dr. Chris Fall, director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science (DOE-SC). Dr. Fall visited Michigan State University (MSU), where he was welcomed...

The FRIB Users Organization (FRIBUO) held an election for three positions on its executive committee in December 2019. Members voted for two general members and one member of the standing...

On 12 December, FRIB hosted representatives from the University of Pretoria (UP) in South Africa. The visitors included Dr. Tawana Kupe, professor of media studies and vice-chancellor of UP. FRIB...