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MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
College of Natural Science
Department of Physics and Astronomy

News and Activities

Recent Publications

Outside the Lab

  • April 2024: The group show-cased a particle astrophysics booth at the STEM expo during the MSU Science Festival. The booth featured a cloud-chamber demo and event displays of various neutrino and gamma-ray experiments, and engaged visitors of all ages.
  • April 2024: Dan Salazar defends his PhD thesis, "Leveraging Multi-messenger Astrophysics for Dark Matter Search". Dan joins the MSU group as a postdoc in Summer 2024.
  • April 2024: Finn Mayhew, Jeanne Garriz and Jean Pierre present their work at the APS April Meeting in Sacramento, California
  • November 2023: Jean Pierre presents his work on track reconstruction for P-ONE at the National Society of Black Physicists Conference in Knoxville, TN. 
  • October 2023: MSU hosts the binannual IceCube collaboration meeting in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Norman Birge
August 30, 2024
Norman Birge appointed Interim Associate Dean of Budget, Planning, Research, and Administration
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Norman Birge, Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, has been appointed Interim Associate Dean of Associate Dean of Budget, Planning, Research, and Administration in the College of Natural Science at Michigan State University.
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A schematic representing a microscopy measurement where a pulse of laser light (red curve) illuminates an atomically sharp tip (top) positioned above the sample surface. The graphene nanoribbon sits on top of a gold substrate. Experimental data is shown in blue, revealing the distribution of electrons above the nanoribbon.
July 8, 2024
Single atoms show their true color
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A new technique reveals single atom misfits and could help design better semiconductors used in modern and future electronics
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An atomic nucleus is shown with blue neutrons and red protons clustered in its core. There is one proton,, however, that orbits that central cluster, creating what's called a proton halo.
June 17, 2024
FRIB helps advance understanding of proton halos
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The first results from FRIB’s precision measurement program measure the mass of a rare isotope
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The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, known as Sagittarius A*, or Sgr A*, appears as a bright spot against the backdrop of space in this telescope image, shrouded by X-ray light, which appears as clouds of red and blue. Credit: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Wisconsin/Y. Bai, et al.
June 11, 2024
'Flares' and 'echoes' from the Milky Way's monster black hole
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Spartans have uncovered new information about the galaxy’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*
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An illustration shows wave-shaped purple, pink and orange contours nesting within each other and overlapping.
May 20, 2024
Solving quantum many-body problems
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FRIB reserachers are helping solve complex computational problems with a new method called wavefunction matching.
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