Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB)

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science has approved the start of execution of the High Transmission Beam Line (HTBL) segment of the High Rigidity Spectrometer (HRS) project. HRS is a scientific instrument that will serve as the core of FRIB’s fast-beam program. "We are excited to advance the High Transmission Beam Line, a key step for experiments in understanding rare isotopes,” said FRIB Laboratory Director Thomas Glasmacher. Learn more about HRS and the lasting impact of research conducted at FRIB: http://spr.ly/6008FHjWi

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science recently approved the start of execution of a $49.7M High Transmission Beam Line at MSU's Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), which operates the world’s most powerful rare isotope accelerator.

We’re thrilled to share that three members of the FRIB scientific community have been recognized as 2024 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Michael Thoennessen of Michigan State University, Morten Hjorth-Jensen of the University of Oslo, and John Beacom of The Ohio State University have been elected as AAAS Fellows by their peers. AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals. Learn more about these three accomplished scientists’ research: http://spr.ly/6003FZxbN

We value our student visitors! Since 2011, FRIB is proud to have welcomed more than 3,000 school groups to tour the laboratory on the campus of Michigan State University [link to profile]. Students come from public schools, private schools, parochial schools, and homeschools to tour FRIB. “Tours are easily the best way to discover what the laboratory is all about, especially for school-aged children,” said Zach Constan, FRIB outreach coordinator. “Our guests explore behind the scenes to understand what we are hoping to discover and why.” Constan hopes that a visit to FRIB will help students realize what is possible in science and for their own future. Learn more about FRIB’s community engagement and how to schedule a tour: http://spr.ly/6005Fzi69

Congratulations to Colorado School of Mines physicists Kyle Leach, Joseph Smolsky, and their team which includes Mines undergraduate and graduate researches and Shared Instrumentation Facility (SIF) at Colorado School of Mines Director David Diercks for co-authoring a recent article that appeared in Nature Portfolio's flagship journal, Nature! The article presents a new method* that can measure the "quantum size" of a neutrino using "tabletop-scale" precision measurements. This breakthrough is important because it offers crucial insights for theoretical models of neutrino behavior and paves the way for future studies on subatomic particles. “This is just the tip of the iceberg,” according to Dr. Leach. “Our findings could have far-reaching implications, from refining the standard model of particle physics to improving methods for detecting neutrinos from nuclear reactors and astrophysical sources. We are excited for what comes next.” *This novel method is part of the BeEST (pronounced “beast”) Experiment, an international collaboration that employs the use of tabletop-scale measurements to examine and understand the fundamental particles and interactions of our universe. In addition to Mines researchers, BeEST major contributors include researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, TRIUMF, and institutions across Europe and is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Read the Mines Newsroom PR: https://lnkd.in/gNwSsdhP Read the article in Nature: https://lnkd.in/ggjejM8i Find out more about BeEST: https://beest.mines.edu/ #InnovationWithImpact

Thank you Physical Sciences at ORNL for celebrating the fascinating research made possible by the FRIB Decay Station initiator. Learn more: http://spr.ly/6001LfccW #NuclearAstrophysics

The FRIB Decay Station initiator is helping scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory observe rare isotopes in order to understand what’s happening in the stars. Learn more: http://spr.ly/6001LfccW #NuclearAstrophysics

Scientists are making exciting discoveries about fundamental interactions at FRIB.   Recently, FRIB researchers were part of a team that measured the deuteron inelastic scattering of beryllium-10. Their results were published in American Physical Society Physical Review Letters, “Near-Threshold Dipole Strength in 10Be with Isoscalar Character.” The tools used in this study will be important for future research into rare and exotic atomic nuclei, in particular for clustering in nuclei. Learn more: http://spr.ly/6000Ikw4M

We’re thrilled to invite the community to "The Muse," a free concert featuring world-class musicians Dmitri Berlinsky (violin) and Jiarui Cheng (piano). Please join us at 6:00 p.m. on Monday, 10 February to hear a selection of Romantic-era compositions by Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, and Johannes Brahms. Learn more: http://spr.ly/6009x7S5d

In addition to welcoming over 300 guests to an FRIB demonstration booth, the FRIB volunteer team had the chance to meet Zeke the Wonder Dog at WKAR at Michigan State University PBS Kids Day. The annual event invites young children and their families to explore an exposition throughout the WKAR studios. The FRIB team helped kids of all ages learn about nuclear research by smashing their own marble “nuclei,” identifying what they created, and filling out labels to announce which isotope they had made.