One of the nation's premier research facilities located at Michigan State University is getting a multi-million dollar upgrade. Late last month, the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science approved $48.5 million for MSU's Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science (DOE-SC) has recently approved funding for a significant addition to the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University. The department allocated $48.5 million to construct a new instrument, the High-Transmission Beam Line (HTBL), an integral part of the High Rigidity Spectrometer (HRS). This new development marks another step in DOE-SC’s ongoing investment in FRIB, which has received more than $1.5 billion since 2012.
Scientists—including researchers from the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams—measured the energy width of a lithium-7 nucleus in beryllium-7 decay, setting a lower limit on the spatial extent of neutrino wavepackets. The findings provide insights into neutrino properties and weak nuclear decays.
Students passionate about the evolving space market had an unparalleled opportunity to collaborate with leading engineers from Texas Instruments (TI) and engineers and physicists from Michigan State University (MSU) at the inaugural Single Event Effects (SEE) Radiation Testing Boot Camp. TI sponsored the event in partnership with the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at MSU and the MSU Space Electronics Initiative.
A team of scientists, including researchers from FRIB, published a paper in Communications Physics regarding obtaining an accurate description of low-density nuclear matter, which is crucial for explaining the physics of neutron star crusts. The team introduced a variational Monte Carlo method based on a neural Pfaffian-Jastrow quantum state, which allowed them to model the transition from the liquid phase to neutron-rich nuclei microscopically.