Advancing Fundamental Research
FRIB opens new frontiers and enables opportunities for discoveries in nuclear science. Its development has generated capabilities that transfer to other industries and applications.
FRIB’s science and engineering program offers world-leading opportunities to study rare isotopes, nuclear astrophysics, and their applications in fields like medicine, homeland security, and industry. FRIB experiments support national science priorities and reveal the benefits of nuclear science.
The work at FRIB focuses on four main themes: nuclear structure and reactions, nuclear astrophysics, fundamental symmetries, and the benefits of nuclear science to the nation and humankind.
Explore FRIB’s research opportunities in experimental nuclear physics, nuclear theory, nuclear and radiochemistry, and accelerator research and development.
In establishing and operating FRIB, capabilities were developed that transfer to other industries and applications.
National science priorities
FRIB pursues the most important science aligned with national priorities as defined in the 2023 Long Range Plan for Nuclear Science and by the National Research Council of the National Academies.
Publications
Each year, hundreds of publications emerge from FRIB researchers.
FRIB400
The FRIB400 upgrade will double FRIB’s beam energy to 400 MeV/nucleon and expand the laboratory’s scientific impact by increasing the yield of many key rare isotopes tenfold.
