2024 FRIB News
03 December 2024
Stability and instability, measurement, acceleration, fragmentation, and navigating mystery—these are shared themes in both nuclear science and dance. At first glance, these concepts might seem best understood in isolation, but...
25 November 2024
Dean Lee, professor of physics at FRIB and in Michigan State University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy and Theoretical Nuclear Science Department Head at FRIB, was awarded the Outstanding Faculty...
13 November 2024
Recently, a large research collaboration led by the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Germany united an international team of scientists to gain deeper insights into the role...
13 November 2024
An international team of researchers led by scientists from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University (MSU) uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and...
07 November 2024
FRIB hosted the 2024 FRIB Theory Alliance (FRIB-TA) summer school (“ Put the reaction into action”) 12-14 August. The school brought together 50 participants from several U.S. and international institutions...
07 November 2024
The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) has awarded Anthony Tran, graduate assistant at FRIB, an Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) grant. Award recipients are selected...
07 November 2024
Scientists at FRIB have used new techniques to generate a powerful uranium beam. The high-power beam, which reached 10.4 kilowatts (kW), allowed researchers to extract and identify three new isotopes—gallium-88...
07 November 2024
A team of researchers designed, built, and tested the Phase II time projection chamber (TPC) for the Proton Detector and Gaseous Detector with Germanium Tagging ( GADGET) system, a gaseous...
07 November 2024
Using neutron and gamma-ray spectroscopy, researchers from institutions including FRIB, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; and Los Alamos National Laboratory collaborated to...
29 October 2024
FRIB’s world-class experimental infrastructure allows an international collaboration to chart rare isotopes’ nuclear structure. In a recent paper in Nature Physics, an international research collaboration used world-class instrumentation at the...
29 October 2024
Betty Tsang, professor of nuclear science at FRIB, has been selected as the 2025 recipient of the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry. Sponsored by...
29 October 2024
Two members of the FRIB Theory Alliance (FRIB-TA) have earned prizes from the American Physical Society (APS): Baha Balantekin. Eugene P. Wigner Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
29 October 2024
Four members of the FRIB user community have been named 2024 Fellows of the American Physical Society (APS): Pierre Capel, Gail Dodge, Stefano Gandolfi, and Calvin Johnson. APS is the...
29 October 2024
Kyle Leach, associate professor of physics at the Colorado School of Mines and adjunct associate professor at FRIB, has received the 2025 American Physical Society’s Francis M. Pipkin Award. Leach...
23 October 2024
The latest issue of Nuclear Physics News (volume 34/no.3) has a laboratory portrait on FRIB titled “The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams: Providing New Opportunities for Science” (pages 5-12). The...
23 October 2024
Using the SOLenoid Spectrometer Apparatus for ReactIon Studies (SOLARIS), a research team created a reaction that added a neutron to silicon-32—a long-lived isotope—creating silicon-33 and comparing the experimental results with...
23 October 2024
Researchers from the California Institute of Technology; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the University of California, Santa Barbara; the University of York; University of Warsaw; and FRIB, among several others...
08 October 2024
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...
07 October 2024
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...
07 October 2024
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...
07 October 2024
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...
07 October 2024
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...
04 October 2024
This summer, 268 students and community members participated in outreach and education programs at FRIB, and it was a great season full of discovery. Thank you to all the students...
02 October 2024
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...
26 September 2024
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...
11 September 2024
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...
05 September 2024
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...
30 August 2024
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...
23 July 2024
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...
18 July 2024
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...
09 July 2024
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...
28 June 2024
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...
26 June 2024
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)...
25 June 2024
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...
17 June 2024
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...
07 June 2024
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...
29 May 2024
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...
16 May 2024
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...
13 May 2024
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...
08 May 2024
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...
03 May 2024
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...
23 April 2024
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...
23 April 2024
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...
22 April 2024
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...
19 April 2024
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)...
17 April 2024
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...
05 April 2024
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...
05 April 2024
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...
04 April 2024
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...
04 April 2024
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...
01 April 2024
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...
29 March 2024
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...
28 March 2024
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...
20 March 2024
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...
18 March 2024
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...
18 March 2024
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...
20 February 2024
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...
15 February 2024
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...
26 January 2024
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...
23 January 2024
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...
03 January 2024
Video looks at FRIB’s 2023 achievements This year-in-review video highlights FRIB’s greatest achievements in 2023.