Isotope Harvesting at FRIB: Additional opportunities for scientific discovery
Abstract
The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) at Michigan State University provides a unique opportunity to access some of the nation's most specialized scientific resources: radioisotopes. An excess of useful radioisotopes will be formed as FRIB fulfills its basic science mission of providing rare isotope beams. In order for the FRIB beams to reach high-purity, many of the isotopes are discarded and go unused. If harvested, the unused isotopes could enable cutting-edge research for diverse applications ranging from medical therapy and diagnosis to nuclear security. Given that FRIB will have the capability to create about 80 percent of all possible atomic nuclei, harvesting at FRIB will provide a fast path for access to a vast array of isotopes of interest in basic and applied science investigations. To fully realize this opportunity, infrastructure investment is required to enable harvesting and purification of otherwise unused isotopes. An investment in isotope harvesting at FRIB will provide the nation with a powerful resource for development of crucial isotope applications.
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@article{arxiv.1812.03984,
title = {Isotope Harvesting at FRIB: Additional opportunities for scientific discovery},
author = {E. Paige Abel and Mikael Avilov and Virginia Ayres and Eva Birnbaum and Georg Bollen and Greg Bonito and Todd Bredeweg and Hannah Clause and Aaron Couture and Joe DeVore and Matt Dietrich and Paul Ellison and Jonathan Engle and Richard Ferrieri and Jonathan Fitzsimmons and Moshe Friedman and Dali Georgobiani and Stephen Graves and John Greene and Suzanne Lapi and C. Shaun Loveless and Paul Mantica and Tara Mastren and Cecilia Martinez-Gomez and Sean McGuinness and Wolfgang Mittig and David Morrissey and Graham Peaslee and Frederique Pellemoine and J. David Robertson and Nicholas Scielzo and Matthew Scott and Gregory Severin and Dawn Shaughnessy and Jennifer Shusterman and Jaideep Singh and Mark Stoyer and Logan Sutherlin and Ate Visser and John Wilkinson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.03984},
year = {2019}
}
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41 pages