Colloquium
Last Updated April 3, 2024
The upcoming colloquium is shown below. The current schedule for the remainder of the semester can be seen here. Previous abstracts of colloquiums from this semester will be archived in the future.
When there's a colloquium, come meet the speaker and have coffee & snacks at 3:30
pm in Workman 312, then attend the talk at 4 pm in Workman 101! You can also attend
via Zoom (the meeting ID is 922 7877 4516 and the pass code is 521185).
Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
Speaker: Kenny Haak (MSU)
Date: April 4, 2024 @ 3pm
Workman 101
Abstract:
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) is a world leading nuclear physics research facility that produces radioactive isotopes to be used in a wide variety of nuclear physics experiments. The majority of these isotopes are not naturally occurring on earth and are useful for a wide variety of purposes such as medicine, food processing, and astronomy. The discovery of new isotopes is also possible at FRIB. This facility mainly consists of an accelerator, a fragment separator, and several experimental halls. The fragment separator is a collection of magnets that separates and selects a given isotope from the diverse mixture of fragments produced when a high-powered ion beam passes through a target material. This talk will briefly describe an overview of the facility and then dive into the details of the fragment separator system. If extra time remains, a detailed description of a recent new isotope discovery will be provided.