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Nuclear Data at Michigan State University National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

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Nuclear Data at Michigan State University

National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory

Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

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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

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Nuclear Data at Michigan State University

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

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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

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New accelerator and present experimental areas

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Transition from NSCL to FRIB

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2014 – 2015

Web cams at: www.frib.msu.edu

April 24, 2014

April 16, 2015

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Aerial view of FRIB construction site

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Conventional facilities progress

Tunnel warm and paintedView inside linac tunnel from the west

View of target area from the north

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FRIB Projected Production Rates

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New nuclides with FRIB

~80% of all isotopes for Z<92

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Nuclear Data Project

Started in December 2014

DOE subcontract from ANL

Hired Jun Chen

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XUNDL

122 datasets for 80 different papers in 4 months

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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)

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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