East Lansing, Mich. – Today, Dr. Linda L. Horton, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) Associate Deputy Director for Science Programs and acting Associate Director of the DOE-SC...

Junwei Guo, ion source scientist at FRIB, has been awarded the 2024 Richard Geller Prize. Guo received the honor at the 26th International Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Resonance Ion Sources...

The FRIB-sponsored “Of Equal Place: Isotopes in Motion” will return to the Wharton Center for Performing Arts on 14 November. The unique event incorporates dance, video, and physics to create...

The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU) achieved a pair of milestones recently, delivering the world’s highest heavy-ion beam power and simultaneously accelerating five charge...

Madison Howard, a graduate assistant at FRIB, received the “Best Student Poster” prize at the 2024 International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’24) in Nashville, Tennessee. Her poster presentation (“Optimizing current density...

FRIB, Michigan State University (MSU), and the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab) are kicking off the third annual Distinguished Trailblazers in the Sciences competition. For the competition, pre-college...

FRIB is hosting “One Fun Guy’s Trash is Another Fungi’s Treasure,” an exhibit from the MSU Museum. While the museum is closed for an 18-month renovation project, it continues to...

Michigan State University (MSU) will welcome international artist Violeta López López of Ávila, Spain, as the fall 2024 MSUFCU Arts Power Up Artist in Residence. This new residency aims to...

Katharina Domnanich is helping set up a lab at FRIB that will provide a bounty of isotopes useful for medicine, plant science, and more Katharina Domnanich joined Michigan State University...

The 2024 Low Energy Community Meeting (LECM) took place 7-9 August on the campus of the University of Tennessee Knoxville. LECM brings together members of the worldwide low-energy nuclear physics...

Laurent Bili, the Ambassador of France to the United States, visited the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU) on 22 July. The French research organization...

FRIB issued its third call for proposals today. The FRIB science program commenced in May 2022, delivering successful experiments approved in the first call for proposals. The third call invites...

A research team—led by Dennis Mücher, professor at the Institute for Nuclear Physics at the University of Cologne in Germany and former researcher at the University of Guelph and the...

Today, the Michigan State University (MSU) Board of Trustees (BOT) authorized construction of a high-bay addition to the west end of FRIB. The addition will triple the testing capacity of...

A scientific research team studied how the barium-139 nucleus captures neutrons in the stellar environment in an experiment at Argonne National Laboratory’s (ANL) CARIBU facility using FRIB’s Summing Nal (SuN)...

A scientific research team measured the nuclear charge radii of stable isotopes silicon-28, silicon-29, and silicon-30 at FRIB’s BEam COoler and LAser spectroscopy (BECOLA) facility. The team also measured the...

FRIB hosted the FRIB Theory Alliance (FRIB-TA) topical program titled “ The path to superheavy isotopes” 3-14 June. Thirty-three participants joined to address the current challenges creating superheavy elements. This...

The FRIB Users Organization Executive Committee and the FRIB Theory Alliance Executive Board have announced the winners of the 2024 FRIB Achievement Award for Early Career Researchers. Timothy Gray, research...

Theoretical physicists and experimentalists work together to measure the mass of a rare isotope expected to form a rare proton halo, publishing the first results from FRIB’s precision measurement program...

New approach makes calculations with realistic interactions possible FRIB researchers are part of an international research team solving challenging computational problems in quantum physics using a new method called wavefunction...

Kellen McGee, a former graduate research assistant at FRIB, has earned the 2024 Particle Accelerator Science and Technology (PAST) Doctoral Student Award. This is the first time a Michigan State...

Attendees from around the United States took part in the final event of the season for FRIB’s Advanced Studies Gateway (ASG) initiative on Sunday, 5 May, as Nobel Prize-winning physicist...

Caitlin McCormick, graduate research assistant at FRIB, has earned a three-year fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program. NSF provides an annual stipend of $37,000 to...

University of Surrey article details how sensors will shine new light on why stars explode The University of Surrey in England published an article ( “£3m Surrey sensors will shine...

FRIB is hosting William Phillips, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, for a special talk titled “The Quantum Reform of the Modern Metric System.” The talk, part of FRIB’s Advanced Studies Gateway...

Jackson Hacias, a student research assistant at FRIB, has earned a Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI) from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC). Hacias is majoring in...

Poulomi Dey, a student research assistant at FRIB, received a first-place award for her research presentation at the Michigan State University (MSU) 2024 University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF)...

World-class particle-accelerator facilities and recent advances in neutron-star observation give physicists a new toolkit for describing nuclear interactions at a wide range of densities. For most stars, neutron stars and...

Yassid Ayyad from the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain and Erich Leistenschneider from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are the award recipients for the 2024 Facility for...

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) posted a highlight titled “ New calculations solve an alpha particle physics puzzle.” The highlight explains a new experimental measure of...

In a recent paper published by Physical Review C (“First direct 7Be electron-capture Q-value measurement toward high-precision searches for neutrino physics beyond the Standard Model”), scientists from Central Michigan University...

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) posted a highlight titled “ The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams observes five never-before-seen isotopes.” The highlight explains how the first...

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) posted a highlight titled “ Understanding charged-particle bound states in periodic boxes.” The highlight explains how researchers solved a long-standing and...

Aaron Philip, a professorial assistant at FRIB, has earned a Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, becoming Michigan State University’s fifty-fifth Goldwater Scholar. The Goldwater Foundation seeks sophomores and juniors committed to...

Daniel Lay, a graduate assistant at FRIB, was featured recently in the 2024 Academic Programs Annual , published by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Defense Programs, Technology and Partnerships...

George Perkovich, the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Chair and vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, gave a lecture on 20 March at the FRIB...

Scientists from Massey University in New Zealand, the University of Mainz in Germany, Sorbonne University in France, and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) discuss the limit of the...

A technical evaluation using data from a recent scientific-user experiment demonstrated how the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) enables Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) scientists...

The FRIB Project team received a U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Secretary of Energy Achievement Award—DOE’s highest form of employee recognition for achievements—at the annual Secretary’s Honor Awards ceremony held...

In creating five new isotopes, an international research team working at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, at Michigan State University has brought the stars closer to Earth...

Empowered by a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant, the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU) is spearheading a multi-institutional project to construct a next-generation fast-neutron...

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...

Video looks at FRIB’s 2023 achievements This year-in-review video highlights FRIB’s greatest achievements in 2023.