The Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, or FRIB, at Michigan State University, in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory, was chosen to receive a Genesis Mission Phase I award from the U.S. Department of Energy. The project will develop artificial intelligence, or AI, tools — specifically, physics-informed “digital twins” — that could transform how heavy-ion accelerators and isotope separators are operated.
The project, titled “Towards Self-Evolving, Physics-Informed Digital Twins of Ion Accelerators and Isotope Separators,” is led by Peter Ostroumov, associate director of the Accelerator Systems Division and professor at FRIB, and Brahim Mustapha, accelerator physicist at Argonne National Laboratory.
The award is among the inaugural national portfolio of projects the DOE announced 22 July under the Genesis Mission Request for Applications, or RFA, as part of the Genesis Mission, designed to double America’s scientific productivity.