Long-Awaited Accelerator Ready to Explore Origins of Elements
30.04.22 | Cuca Margoux
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams will be the first to produce and analyse hundreds of isotopes crucial to physics.
One of nuclear physicists’ top wishes is about to come true. After a decades-long wait, a US$942 million accelerator in Michigan is officially inaugurating on 2 May. Its experiments will chart unexplored regions of the landscape of exotic atomic nuclei and shed light on how stars and supernova explosions create most of the elements in the Universe.
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