FRIB - Facility for Rare Isotope Beams

FRIB, the US's "Facility for Rare Isotope Beams" to be built at Michigan State University (MSU), will be based on a 400 kW, 200 MeV/u heavy ion driver linac. Once completed, FRIB will offer world-unique opportunities for rare isotope science. It will provide a wide variety of high-quality beams of unstable isotopes at unprecedented intensities, opening exciting research perspectives with fast, stopped, and reaccelerated beams. New experiments will become possible to explore nuclear structure very far from stability and to provide information critical for the explanation of the element abundances observed in the universe. Special isotopes that are important for the study of fundamental symmetries and to allow for new applications of isotopes to meet societal needs will at become available at high intensities.