2021FRIB/NSCL Graduate Brochure

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Jie Wei Professor of Physics FRIB Accelerator Systems Division Director Accelerator Physics and Engineering Selected Publications Advances J. Wei et al., “Advances of the FRIB project,” International Journal of Modern Physics E, 28, 1930003-1-18 (2019) Particle accelerator development: selected examples, J. Wei, Modern Physics Letters A, 31, 1630010-1-13 (2016) Synchrotrons and accumulators for high- intensity proton beams, J. Wei, Reviews of Modern Physics, 75, 1383 (2003) Low-loss design for the high-intensity accumulator ring of the Spallation Neutron Source, J. Wei, et al, Physical Review ST-Accel. Beams, 3, 080101 (2000) Necessary Conditions for Attaining a Crystalline Beam, J. Wei, H. Okamoto, A.M. Sessler, Physical Review Letters, 80, 2606 (1998) BS, Physics, Tsinghua University, China, 1983 PhD, Physics, Stony Brook University, 1989 Joined NSCL in August 2010 wei@frib.msu.edu I started my career pursuing a PhD in accelerator physics at State University of New York at Stony Brook. My research topics were performance limiting beam-dynamics mechanisms with the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). During the next 35 years, my research has been on accelerator physics and engineering pertaining to frontier accelerator facilities including RHIC at BNL, the U.S. part of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley, Los Alamos, Thomas Jefferson, Brookhaven, and Argonne National Laboratories, the China Spallation Neutron Source project, the Compact Pulsed Hadron Source in China, and now the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams at MSU. The accelerator profession is so uniquely rewarding in that a physical idea can be turned into reality through the execution of a construction project. Throughout its completion one experiences endless learning in physics, technology, teamwork, and creating friendships. I serve as the FRIB Accelerator Systems Division Director responsible for the design, R&D, construction, commissioning, and operations of the accelerator complex. My team includes accelerator faculties and staff of subject matter experts, many from major national laboratories and institutes worldwide. The accelerators for the Facility of Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) facility are among the most powerful and technically demanding hadron accelerators in the world. The design and development of the FRIB driver accelerator requires the most advanced knowledge in accelerator physics and engineering involving beam dynamics with electron-cyclotron-resonance (ECR) ion sources, radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ) linac, superconducting RF linac; space charge and beam halo; charge stripping mechanisms based on solid film, liquidmetal film, and gases; high-power targetry; mechanisms of beam loss, collimation, and collection; mechanisms of vibration, microphonics, and compensation; and mechanisms of gas dissorption, electron cloud, and mitigations; and rare isotope beams. My scientific research involves accelerator physics of high-energy colliders and high-intensity hadron accelerators; beam cooling and crystallization; development of spallation neutron sources; development of compact pulsed hadron sources; development of hadron therapy facilities; development of accelerator driven sub-critical reactor programs for thorium energy utilization and nuclear waste transmutation; and development of accelerators for rare isotope beams. Our team covers accelerator research and engineering fields of superconducting material and technology; lowtemperature cryogenics; permanent and electromagnetic magnets and power supplies; radio-frequency vacuum; beam diagnostics instrumentation and electronics; accelerator controls and machine protection; and beam collimation and shielding. Design, R&D, construction, commissioning, and upgrade of the FRIB accelerator complex involve fascinating and challenging works across multiple disciplines at Michigan State University and in collaboration with major accelerator institutes and laboratories in United States and throughout the world. FRIB tunnel housing world’s highest energy, continuous-wave hadron linear accelerator. KEYWORDS Particle Accelerator | Linac | Beam Dynamics Superconducting RF Cavity | Rare Isotope Beam 62
Christopher Wrede Associate Professor of Physics Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics Selected Publications Low-energy 23 Al β-delayed proton decay and 22 Na destruction in novae, M. Friedman et al., Phys. Rev. C 101, 052802(R) (2020) GADGET: a Gaseous Detector with Germanium Tagging, M. Friedman et al., Nucl. Instrum Methods Phys. Res., Sect. A 940, 93 (2019) Doppler Broadening in 20 Mg(β p γ) 19 Ne Decay, B. E. Glassman, D. Perez-Loureiro, C. Wrede et al., Phys. Rev. C 99, 065801 (2019) New portal to the 15 O(α, γ) 19 Ne resonance triggering CNO-cycle breakout, C. Wrede et al., Phys. Rev. C 96, 032801(R) (2017) β-delayed γ decay of 26 P: Possible evidence of a proton halo, D. Perez-Loureiro, C. Wrede et al., Phys. Rev. C 93, 064320 (2016) Isospin Mixing Reveals 30 P(p, γ)31S Resonance Affecting Nova Nucleosynthesis, M.B. Bennett, C. Wrede et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 102502 (2016 MSc, Physics, Simon Fraser University, 2003 MS, M. Phil., Physics Yale University 2006 PhD, Physics, Yale University, 2008 Joined NSCL in August 2011 wrede@nscl.msu.edu Atomic nuclei play an important role in the evolution of matter in our universe. For many problems in astrophysics, cosmology, and particle physics, the detailed properties of atomic nuclei provide essential inputs to the solutions. Our group’s research focuses on studying nuclei experimentally to probe fundamental questions about our universe. For example, we measure nuclear reactions, decays, and masses in the laboratory to learn about the reactions that power exploding stars or affect their synthesis of chemical elements. Similar experiments can contribute to searches for physics beyond the standard model of particle physics. In some cases we can use these low energy nuclear physics techniques to directly measure the reactions that occur in stars or to directly search for new physics. In the near future, our group’s program at NSCL and FRIB will be focused on measuring the beta decays of protonrich nuclides. With these experiments, we hope to constrain the nuclear structure details that are most influential on photodisintegration in supernovae and the explosive burning of hydrogen and helium on the surfaces of accreting compact stars such as white dwarfs and neutron stars. Similar experiments can allow us to test hypotheses that could explain the origins of dark matter in the universe or to better constrain the effects of isospin-symmetry breaking in nuclei on tests of the unitarity of the Cabibbo-Kobayashi- Maskawa matrix, a cornerstone of the standard model. The Gaseous Detector with Germanium Tagging (GADGET) prior to an NSCL experiment to determine the isotopic ratios expected in microscopic grains of stardust. Students in our group have opportunities to propose, prepare, execute, analyze, and interpret nuclear-physics experiments at NSCL/FRIB, to publish the results in leading scientific journals, and to present the results at national and international conferences. KEYWORDS Nuclear Astrophysics | Thermonuclear Reaction Rates Fundamental Symmetries | Beta Decay 63
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MSU CRYOGENIC INITIATIVE The demand
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