In a new paper, researchers calculated the structure of the nuclear states of carbon-12 using the ab initio framework of nuclear lattice effective field theory. Read More

FRIB hosted the 2023 Institute for Nuclear Science to Inspire the next Generation of a Highly Trained workforce (INSIGHT) Workshop 10-11 May. Read More

On 5 May, FRIB hosted Jill Hruby, Under Secretary for Nuclear Security of the U.S. Department of Energy and Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration. Read More

Five FRIB undergraduate students received first-place awards for their research work at the Michigan State University (MSU) 2023 University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum. Read More

Kyle Godbey, a research assistant professor at FRIB, has been named as a recipient of a Michigan State University Postdoctoral Excellence in Research Award. Read More

In a recent Physical Review Letters paper, Chien-Yeah Seng—a visiting scholar at the University of Washington—explains how physicists see new hopes to resolve an outstanding puzzle in low-energy nuclear physics. Read More

The FRIB Project received the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Office of Project Assessment Award for 2022 on 11 April 2023 in Washington, DC. Read More

The 2023 FRIB Visiting Scholar Program for Experimental Science award recipients are Moshe Friedman from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, AJ Mitchell from the Australian National University in Australia, and Shuya Ota from Brookhaven National Laboratory. Read More

MSU will refurbish the history-making K500 cyclotron and install it as the heart of a new chip-testing facility for next-generation semiconductor devices. Read More

Paul Mantica, former FRIB project manager and FRIB deputy laboratory director and current Facilities & Project Management Division director at the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Office of Nuclear Physics, has been named the 2022 recipient of the W. Frank Kinard Distinguished Service Award by the American Chemical Society Read More

Dr. Brad Roberts, director of the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, will give a lecture titled “U.S. Nuclear Deterrence Strategy in the New Security Environment” on 7 April. Read More

In a recent Physical Review C paper, scientists from the University of Washington, the University of Bonn, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, and FRIB explain how precise measurements benefit theory frameworks. Read More

The FRIB Program Advisory Committee (PAC) has peer-reviewed science proposals for experiments proposed to be conducted at FRIB. Read More

The International Research Network for Nuclear Astrophysics welcomes the Ibero-American Network of Nuclear Astrphysics as a new network partner. Read More

On 2 March, FRIB hosted representatives the Rare Isotope Science Project (RISP) in South Korea. The visit was part of an information exchange about the progress of RISP and FRIB. Read More

In a recent Physical Review X Quantum paper, a team of scientists explains its new method to search for invisible particles called sterile neutrinos using optically levitating nanospheres. Read More

Researchers update their understanding of resulting reactions when heavy-ion beams hit a flowing-water target, a key variable to the eventual collection of radionuclides for use in medicine, materials science, and other applied contexts. Read More

Rebecca Surman, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Notre Dame and member of the FRIB Users Organization, has been named a 2022 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Read More

There is a large community of scientists looking into what happens when a star explodes. What they are interested in—supernovas and neutron star mergers—are energetic events occurring at the end of a star’s life. Read More

FRIB, Michigan State University (MSU), and the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) honored the winners of the “Distinguished Trailblazers in the Sciences” competition at a virtual ceremony on 17 January. Read More

Duncan Kroll, a mechanical engineering graduate student in the MSU College of Engineering and part of the MSU Cryogenic Initiative at FRIB, won an award for his student presentation at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers 2022 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. Read More

Two Michigan State University graduate students with FRIB’s Accelerator Science and Engineering Traineeship (ASET) program won separate awards for their posters at North American and international particle accelerator conferences last summer. Read More

The latest issue of Nuclear Physics News has an article on the High Rigidity Spectrometer at FRIB. Read More

This year-in-review video highlights FRIB’s greatest achievements in 2022. Read More