A scientific team at FRIB has developed a new optical detector. This development will enable scientific users to help generate new insights and breakthroughs in nuclear physics. The team’s findings are detailed in an “Editor’s Pick” paper published in Review of Scientific Instruments. Read More

In a recent Physical Review Letters paper, a team of scientists from Argonne National Laboratory, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of Surrey in England, and FRIB explain its new approach to accessing unusual excited nuclear levels. Read More

Artemis Spyrou, a professor of physics at FRIB and in the Michigan State University (MSU) Department of Physics and Astronomy, recently received the 2022 Madame Figaro “Women of the Year” Award in the scientist/academic category. Read More

In a Physical Review Letter paper, a team of theorists extended its previous critical analysis of the Lead Radius Experiment at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. Read More

Several FRIB faculty members received awards from the Michigan State University (MSU) College of Natural Science (NatSci) at the NatSci Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony, Read More

Fourth-year Michigan State University physics graduate student Cristhian Gonzalez-Ortiz has landed in the ideal place for doing his doctoral thesis research: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Read More

On 17-18 November, FRIB hosted representatives from iThemba Laboratories for Accelerator Based Science (LABS) in South Africa. The visit was part of an initiative to create a student exchange program between iThemba LABS and MSU for graduate research students. Read More

A multi-institutional team of scientific users has measured how long it takes for several kinds of exotic nuclei to decay. Their paper, published today in Physical Review Letters, marks the first experimental result from FRIB. Read More

FRIB welcomed more than 1,000 attendees for a unique physics and dance event that included a performance and a variety of activities to explore dance and science on 3, 4, and 6 November. Read More

At the new MSU Space Electronics Center, a collaboration of MSU’s College of Engineering, FRIB, and Texas Instruments, students and researchers will focus on the effects of ionizing radiation on electrical circuits and systems. Read More

Seven members of the FRIB user community have been named 2022 Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS). Read More

FRIB issued its second call for proposals today. The second call invites scientific users the world over to submit proposals for additional research and new ideas using FRIB capabilities. Read More

Kyle Leach, associate professor of physics at the Colorado College of Mines and visiting professor at FRIB, was awarded a grant by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Read More

The Cryogenic Society of America (CSA) has awarded Nusair Hasan, cryogenics staff engineer at FRIB, with the 2022 Roger W. Boom Award. Read More

Michigan State University (MSU) graduate student Julie Butler is the recipient of a highly competitive U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program (SCGSR) grant. Read More

A multi-institutional team of scientific users has published an article about the precision measurement of charge radii of neutron deficient isotopes below nickel-56 in the 23 September 2022 issue of the journal Physical Review Letters. Read More

FRIB is sponsoring “Of Equal Place: Isotopes in Motion,” a unique dance performance and variety of activities that explore dance and science. Read More

Joan Rohlfing, president and chief operating officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, will give a lecture titled “Pushing Nuclear Frontiers” on 6 October at the FRIB Laboratory. Read More

Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz, an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has been awarded the 2022 Stuart Jay Freedman Award in Experimental Nuclear Physics by the American Physical Society. Read More

Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz, an assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and his team designed and fabricated a new laser spectroscopy system, the Resonant ionization Spectroscopy Experiments (RiSE), for use at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). Read More

On 31 August, FRIB hosted visitors from the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the Office of Nuclear Physics in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC NP). Read More

On 12 August, the FRIB Laboratory held a special event titled “40 Years of Science at NSCL” to recognize the science resulting from the successful operation of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL). Read More

Argonne National Laboratory hosted the 2022 Low Energy Community Meeting (LECM) 8-10 August. More than 300 members of the low-energy nuclear physics community attended the meeting, with 125 participating in person. Read More

FRIB participated in several outreach programs this summer, and it was a great season full of discovery. Thank you to all the students, teachers, and volunteers who joined us to explore the world of science! Read More

The 29th annual Physics of Atomic Nuclei (PAN) program ran July 25-29. This year’s program marked the return to in-person events after two years of PAN online. Read More

Dark matter is one of the most famous things in the universe that we know the least about. While looking for it, MSU scientists helped uncover new physics. Read More

A Physical Review Letters article looks at the rate at which helium and deuterium fuse to produce lithium-6. Read More

Michigan State University (MSU) received a U.S. Department of Energy grant from the Stewardship Science Academic Alliance program of the National Nuclear Security Administration. Read More

Sofia Quaglioni, a physicist and group leader in the Nuclear Data and Theory group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is a winner of the 2021 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award. She is a member of the FRIB Program Advisory Committee, the FRIB Users Organization, and the FRIB Theory Alliance. Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science has awarded FRIB graduate assistant Hannah Christine Berg a highly competitive Office of Science Graduate Student Research Program grant. Read More

The first experiment at FRIB—which studied the beta-decay of calcium-48 fragments that are so unstable that they only exist for mere fractions of a second—concluded successfully. Read More

Scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) built the FRIB Decay Station initiator (FDSi) for use at FRIB in the first experiments. FDSi is the initial stage of an FRIB Decay Station (FDS). Read More

Vandana Tripathi from Florida State University is the award recipient for the 2022 FRIB Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science. Read More

The FRIB Users Organization Executive Committee and the FRIB Theory Alliance Executive Board have announced the winners of the 2022 FRIB Achievement Award for Early Career Researchers: Jaspreet Randhawa and Amy Lovell. Read More

Michigan State researchers have helped peer inside a nova — a type of astrophysical nuclear explosion — without leaving Earth. Read More

FRIB opened its doors to discovery with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on 2 May to officially mark the start of FRIB’s scientific mission. Read More

Nearly 1,000 people toured FRIB during the FRIB Countdown on 23 April. The public event included activities, demonstrations, presentations, and tours. Read More

FRIB will open its doors to discovery with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on 2 May. U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm and Michigan State University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D., have invited guests to the event that will set the stage for beginning FRIB’s scientific mission. Read More

Michigan State University has a special feature looking at FRIB, including information on how FRIB produces isotopes, educates the next generation, and accelerates innovation. Read More

In celebration of the anticipated opening of FRIB in May as a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility, the public is invited to get behind the scenes at a special “FRIB Countdown” event on Saturday, 23 April. Read More

The Michigan State University (MSU) nuclear physics graduate program retained its No. 1 ranking, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report ranking for best graduate schools. Read More

On 3 April, FRIB will host Lisa Randall, the Frank B. Baird Jr. Professor of Science at Harvard University, for a special talk titled “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” as part of its Advanced Studies Gateway initiative. Read More

New theoretical research from FRIB could help answer looming questions about the ghost-like neutrino particle, including its mass and whether it is its own antiparticle. Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Office of Project Assessment (OPA) held its last independent project review of FRIB 1-2 February. The purpose of the review was to evaluate the project’s readiness for attaining Critical Decision 4 (CD-4) (Approve Project Completion) by 30 June. Read More

Three members of the FRIB user community have been named 2021 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): Michael Annan Lisa, Filomena Nunes, and James Vary. Read More

On 25 January, the FRIB Project team delivered the first beam to the focal plane of the FRIB fragment separator in the transfer hall. Read More

Max Bee-Lindgren, a student at Decatur High School in Decatur, Georgia, and member of the FRIB-affiliated Lee Research Group, has been named a top 40 finalist in the 2022 Regeneron Science Talent Search. Read More

The International Research Network for Nuclear Astrophysics, supported by the National Science Foundation and headquartered at Michigan State University, is expanding to include three new crucial research partners. Read More

Sherry Yennello, professor of chemistry and Cyclotron Institute director at Texas A&M University, has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry. Read More

The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America has awarded Witek Nazarewicz, John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Physics and chief scientist at FRIB, with the 2021 Casimir Funk Natural Sciences Award. Read More

Paul Guèye, an associate professor of nuclear physics at FRIB and in the Michigan State University (MSU) Department of Physics and Astronomy, is featured in a new MSU video: Excellence for Impact: Opening Doors to Discovery. Read More

This year-in-review video highlights FRIB’s greatest achievements in 2021. Read More

The latest issue of Nuclear Physics News has an article on the Association for Research at University Nuclear Accelerators. Read More