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December 11,
2008 ::
Press Release: The Department of Energy
announced that Michigan State University in East
Lansing, Michigan has been selected to design
and establish the Facility for Rare Isotope
Beams (FRIB), a cutting-edge research facility
to advance understanding of rare nuclear
isotopes and the evolution of the cosmos. The
new facility—expected to take about a decade to
design and build, and to cost an estimated $550
million—will provide research opportunities for
an international community of approximately 1000
university and laboratory scientists,
postdoctoral associates, and graduate students.
Facts about FRIB |
Nuclei with a
large proton-to-neutron asymmetry are
produced in stars and exhibit unusual
properties. Source: Four Years
Later: An Interim Report on Facilities
for the Future of Science: A Twenty-Year
Outlook' - Office of Science: August 2007.
 May 20, 2008 ::
Notice: The Department of Energy
released a Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA)
regarding the submission of applications for the
conceptual design and establishment of a
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB).
Proposals are due July 21, 2008.
The
full text of the FOA is available here. The FOA and
responses to questioned are posted on
the
DOE Industry Interactive Procurement System
(IIPS).
February 15, 2008 ::
Notice: The
Department of Energy released a draft Funding
Opportunity Announcement (FOA) regarding the
submission of applications for the conceptual
design and establishment of a Facility for Rare
Isotope Beams (FRIB). The draft FOA for public
comment was posted for 60 days (Comments were due
April 15, 2008) on
the DOE Industry Interactive Procurement System
(IIPS).
January 18, 2008 :: Advance Notice:
The Department of Energy gave notice at this website that it was planning to release
in February 2008 a draft Funding Opportunity
Announcement (FOA) regarding the submission of
applications for the conceptual design and
establishment of a Facility for Rare Isotope
Beams (FRIB).
Three
dimensional simulation of the merger of two
neutron stars in a binary system. Such
systems have recently been implicated in the
generation of a class of gamma-ray bursts
called short-hard bursts. Careful simulation
and analysis suggest that their ejecta are
also rich in the nuclei produced in the
rapid neutron-capture process. Courtesy of
the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.
Source: Scientific Opportunities
with a Rare-Isotope Facility in the United
States. National Research Council of the
National Academies, 2007.
BACKGROUND
 DOE
Proposes a New Nuclear Physics
Facility: After an extensive open
procurement process, the Department of Energy
has selected Michigan State University to design and
establish a new nuclear physics facility
known as the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB).
This facility, estimated to cost up to $550 million
and take about a decade to design and build,
will provide intense beams of rare isotopes
(that is, short-lived nuclei not normally found
on earth) that will enable researchers to
address forefront scientific questions in
nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics.
FRIB will provide
scientists critical information about the
properties of rare nuclear isotopes found in the
universe in order to better understand the
origin of the elements and the evolution of the
cosmos. Researchers will also be able to use
FRIB to conduct experiments addressing questions
of the fundamental symmetries of nature, such as
the precision measurement of isospin breaking in
rare nuclei, that is the degree to which protons
and neutrons are similar or dissimilar in their
interactions within nuclei.
The plan to
establish a U.S. FRIB has undergone numerous
studies and assessments within DOE and by
independent parties such as the Nuclear Science
Advisory Committee and the National Research
Council of the National Academy of Science. They
have concluded that such a U.S. facility is a
vital part of the U.S. nuclear science portfolio
needed to complement existing and planned
international efforts, will provide capabilities
unmatched elsewhere, and should be a high
priority for the U.S.
REFERENCE MATERIAL
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Range Plan, DOE/NSF Nuclear Science
Advisory Committee (NSAC), December 2007
http://www.sc.doe.gov/np/nsac/nsac.html
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Years Later: An Interim Report on Facilities
for the Future of Science: A Twenty-Year Outlook,
DOE Office of Science, August 2007,
http://www.sc.doe.gov/Scientific_User_Facilities/History/20-Year-Outlook-Interim%20Report(August).pdf
J. Symons, E. Blackmore, R. Casten, D. Dean, E.
Hartouni, C. Lyneis, B. Meyer, J. Nolen, T.
Roser, B. Sherrill, R. Tribble, S. Yennello,
Report to NSAC of the Rare-Isotope Beam Task
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http://www.sc.doe.gov/np/nsac/nsac.html
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RIA Users Community, 2006.
http://www.jinaweb.org/ria/html/docs.html
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Comparison of the Rare Isotope Accelerator
(RIA) and the Gesellschaft für
Schwerionenforschung (GSI) Future Facility,
February 23, 2004.
http://www.sc.doe.gov/np/nsac/nsac.html
 Opportunities in Nuclear Science, A
Long-Range Plan for the Next Decade,
DOE/NSF Nuclear Science Advisory Committee (NSAC),
April 2002.
http://www.sc.doe.gov/np/nsac/nsac.html
J. Beene, D. Boyd, R. Casten, C. K. Gelbke, H.
Grunder, S. Kowalski, C. Lyneis, J. Marx, J.
Nolen, H. Ravn, P. Schmor, B. Sherrill,
Isotope-Separator-On-Line (ISOL) Task Force
Report to NSAC, November 22, 1999.
http://www.sc.doe.gov/np/nsac/nsac.html
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