ORNL, Partners Launch First Experiments Using New Facility to Make Cosmic Isotopes on Earth

Credit: Robert Grzywacz/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Mitch Allmond works with the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams Decay Station initiator, which combined diverse detectors for FRIB’s first experiment.

« ORNL, Partners Launch First Experiments Using New Facility to Make Cosmic Isotopes on Earth

Credit: Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

Cryomodules comprise FRIB’s linear accelerator, propelling heavy ions to half the speed of light into a target to make more than 1,000 new isotopes once found only in space.

« ORNL, Partners Launch First Experiments Using New Facility to Make Cosmic Isotopes on Earth

Credit: Robert Grzywacz/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

ORNL scientists including Mitch Allmond (left, with CLARION) and Robert Grzywacz (with VANDLE), work on 10 of the first 34 experiments at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.

« ORNL, Partners Launch First Experiments Using New Facility to Make Cosmic Isotopes on Earth

Credit: Curtis Boles/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

Work at the Holifield Radioactive Ion Beam Facility by physicists like David Radford, shown adjusting a gamma-ray detector in 1998, lives on in the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams.

« ORNL, Partners Launch First Experiments Using New Facility to Make Cosmic Isotopes on Earth

Credit: Kelly Chipps/ORNL, U.S. Dept. of Energy

ORNL’s Krzysztof Rykaczewski, far right, led a multiorganizational team to deploy the Modular Total Absorption Spectrometer (under yellow lead shield).

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