North Carolina State University (NC State) published an article (“Understanding Charged Particles Helps Physicists Simulate Element Creation in Stars”) that discusses a new Physical Review Letters publication. Read More

Tracy Edwards, a graduate assistant at FRIB, has been named as a winner of the 2023 Spirit of Hope award, one of the 2023 Governor’s Service Awards. Read More

On 15 November, chief investment officers from several Big Ten universities and other institutions visited FRIB to tour the facility and to discuss FRIB’s history, progress, science, and technology. Read More

Dr. Eugene Rumer, director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Russia and Eurasia Program, gave a lecture titled “Russia’s Long War” on 13 November at the FRIB Laboratory. Read More

Rose Gottemoeller, former Deputy General Secretary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), gave a lecture titled “The War in Ukraine: Russia’s Approach and Implications for Defense and Security Policy” on 27 October at the FRIB Laboratory Read More

In a recent Physical Review Letters paper, scientists present strong evidence for a new light isotope of nitrogen: nitrogen-9. Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science posted a highlight titled “The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams after one year of operation” about the experiments performed at FRIB in its first year of operation. Read More

FRIB hosted the Muskegon Community College (MCC) Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Club on Friday, 13 October, as part of FRIB’s outreach program. Read More

A team of FRIB scientists has received a three-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) to address challenges in nuclear physics via the development of more efficient and powerful quantum computing algorithms. Read More

Rose Gottemoeller, former Deputy General Secretary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, will give a lecture titled “The War in Ukraine: Russia’s Approach and Implications for Defense and Security Policy” on 27 October at the FRIB Laboratory. Read More

On 6 October, WMU Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Julian Vasquez Heilig and colleagues visited FRIB to discuss collaboration opportunities. Read More

FRIB figures largely in the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee’s newly released “A New Era of Discovery: The 2023 Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science.” The new plan provides a roadmap for advancing the nation's nuclear science research programs over the next decade. Read More

Three FRIB researchers wrote an article for The Conversation (“How a disgruntled scientist looking to prove his food wasn’t fresh discovered radioactive tracers and won a Nobel Prize 80 years ago”) that examines how George De Hevesy, the 1943 Nobel Laureate in chemistry, discovered radioactive tracers. Read More

FRIB will host an event from 2 to 3 p.m. on Friday, 6 October, to provide an update on the Nuclear Science Advisory Committee’s “A New Era of Discovery: The 2023 Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science.” Read More

This summer, 248 students and community members participated in outreach and education programs at FRIB, and it was a great season full of discovery. Read More

FRIB hosted a one-day nuclear science symposium titled "The Past, Present, and Future of Nuclear Structure Theory in the FRIB Era" on 25 September. Read More

FRIB recently completed two projects that have enhanced the laboratory to better serve visitors, scientific users, and employees. The FRIB Entrance Canopy and Bicycle Parking and FRIB Hardscape and Landscape Tower Courtyard projects provide resources for personal health and well-being. Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science has awarded $115 million for the High Rigidity Spectrometer (HRS) project at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at Michigan State University. The new cooperative agreement provides $115,306,881 over seven years to establish and operate HRS. Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) is investing in machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence, to accelerate the speed of research and development in nuclear science. Read More

FRIB, Michigan State University (MSU), and the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) are kicking off the second annual Distinguished Trailblazers in the Sciences competition. Read More

In a recent Physical Review Letters paper, scientists discovered that the chain of scandium charge radii extends below the neutron magic number N=20. Read More

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, the MSU Museum and Michigan State University’s art, science and culture collaborative, the STEAMpower Project, are excited to announce the inaugural open call for the MSUFCU Arts Power Up Arts Residency program. Read More

Timothy Gray of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory led a study that may have revealed an unexpected change in the shape of an atomic nucleus. Read More

FRIB hosted the 2023 Low Energy Community Meeting 9-11 August. More than 300 members of the worldwide low-energy nuclear physics community attended. Read More

Jaideep Taggart Singh, associate professor of physics at FRIB and in the MSU Department of Physics and Astronomy, has received the 2023 Donald F. Koch Quality in Undergraduate Teaching Award. Read More

Congressional staff members from Michigan’s U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives offices visited FRIB on 8 August. Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science has awarded $529 million to continue world-leading nuclear science research at FRIB at Michigan State University. Read More

From 16-29 July, FRIB hosted Physicists Inspiring the Next Generation: Exploring the Nuclear Matter (PING) 2023. Read More

FRIB welcomed 24 high-school students from 11 states and Puerto Rico to the 30th annual Physics of Atomic Nuclei (PAN) program 24-28 July. Read More

MSU and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique signed an agreement to establish the International Research Laboratory on Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics during a ceremony at FRIB. Read More

FRIB hosted the 20th Exotic Beam Summer School (EBSS 2023) from 9-15 July. The school introduces students and young researchers to the various facets of the science of exotic nuclei. Read More

The FRIB Users Organization Executive Committee and the FRIB Theory Alliance Executive Board have announced the winners of the 2023 FRIB Achievement Award for Early Career Researchers: Katharina Domnanich and Kyle Godbey. Read More

The 2023 FRIB Theory Alliance (FRIB-TA) Summer School on Practical Uncertainty Quantification and Emulator Development in Nuclear Physics took place on 26-28 June. Read More

Hundreds of scientific and technical leaders in the superconducting radio frequency (SRF) field are converging in Michigan for the 21st International Conference on Radio-Frequency Superconductivity (SRF 2023). Read More

In a new paper, researchers used the shell model embedded in the continuum to analyze the collectivization of resonance states in carbon-11 via the coupling to the proton emission threshold. Read More

In a recent Physical Review Letters paper, researchers explain their new technique for constraining nuclear reactions in stellar explosions. Read More

The June 2023 issue of Physics Today (Volume 76, Issue 6) has an article on FRIB. Read More

In a recent Physical Review C paper, scientists present the first measurement of the proton capture on krypton-82. Read More

FRIB hosted the FRIB Theory Alliance topical program titled “Theoretical Justifications and Motivations for Early High-Profile FRIB Experiments” from 16-26 May. Read More

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

Scientists working in the lab have produced a signature nuclear reaction that occurs on the surface of a neutron star gobbling mass from a companion star. Their achievement improves understanding of stellar processes generating diverse nuclear isotopes. 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

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science posted a highlight titled “First science results from FRIB published.” 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, member of the FRIB Users Organization, and former member of the FRIB Theory Alliance Executive Board, 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