About FRIB

• Overview - Hosting the most powerful heavy-ion accelerator, FRIB enables scientists to make discoveries about the properties of rare isotopes, nuclear astrophysics, fundamental interactions, and applications for society, including in medicine, homeland security, and industry.
• History of FRIB - The partnership to create, build, and operate the $730 million FRIB has delivered a world-unique U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE-SC) user facility that ensures the nation’s continued competitiveness in nuclear science.
• Quick Facts - FRIB is the only accelerator-based DOE-SC user facility on a university campus. User facility operation is supported by the DOE-SC Office of Nuclear Physics as one of 28 DOE-SC user facilities.

FRIB technology and science

• Building Cryomodules - FRIB has established a world-class program to design and produce superconducting radio frequency resonators, cold masses, and cryomodules.
• Large-Scale High-Efficiency Helium Liquefaction - FRIB built and operates its own helium cryogenic plant, which has operated without interruption since 2018 and is highly energy-efficient.
• Liquid-Lithium Charge Stripper - FRIB has demonstrated a liquid-lithium charge stripper to accelerate unprecedentedly high-power heavy-ion beams.
• Scientific Users - FRIB is open to researchers, or scientific users, from around the world based on the merit of their proposals for scientific research.
• Isotope Harvesting - During routine operation for its nuclear physics mission—without interfering with FRIB’s primary users—extra, unused isotopes can be “harvested.”
• High Rigidity Spectrometer (HRS) - HRS will have a significant benefit for FRIB’s scientific program, extending the scientific reach to neutron-rich isotopes.