Nuclear Data at Michigan State University

National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory

Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory

103 Undergraduate students 71 Graduate students 36 Postdocs 41 Faculty Coupled Cyclotron Facility

located on the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI

Nuclear Data at Michigan State University

More than 1000 RIBs have been made – more than 900 RIBs have been used in experiments

Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

400kW beam power (5 x1013 238U/s)

Separation of isotopes in-flight

Reaccelerated beams (up to 12 MeV/u)

Project started inJune 2009

Ground breaking: March 17, 2014

Early completion expected in 2020

Official project completion is 2022

New accelerator and present experimental areas

Transition from NSCL to FRIB

2014 – 2015

Web cams at: www.frib.msu.edu

April 24, 2014

April 16, 2015

Aerial view of FRIB construction site

Conventional facilities progress

Tunnel warm and paintedView inside linac tunnel from the west

View of target area from the north

FRIB Projected Production Rates

New nuclides with FRIB

~80% of all isotopes for Z<92

Nuclear Data Project

Started in December 2014

DOE subcontract from ANL

Hired Jun Chen

XUNDL

122 datasets for 80 different papers in 4 months

Mass chains

A=43: B. Singh and J. Chen  (final check on preprint with evaluators, started at McMaster in 2011)

A=42: J. Chen and B. Singh   (just submitted for referee review, started at McMaster in 2011)

A=164: B. Singh and J. Chen (just submitted for referee review, started at McMaster in 2011)

A=209: J. Chen and F. Kondev (final, to be printed, started at ANL in 2012)

A=109: S. Kumar, J. Chen and F. Kondev (pre-review with F. Kondev, started at ANL in 2013)

A=40: J. Chen and B. Singh (in evaluation, started at MSU in April 2015)

Summary

Nuclear data project established at MSU

Currently concentrating on XUNDL and mass chains

Establish close connection to experimenters at NSCL/FRIB

Ensure fast and complete evaluation of NSCL/FRIB data

Propose and run data related experiments at NSCL/FRIB