Development of tracking detectors for FRIB

The next-generation Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) will provide unprecedented intensities for the most exotic beams available anywhere. FRIB will enable scientists to explore the uncharted region of the nuclear landscape to provide answers to fundamental questions about nuclear structure, fundamental symmetries and forces , and nucleosynthesis of the elements. Such high intensities also bring unquestionable technical challenges: present radiation detector technologies will become obsolete as FRIB proceeds to its full power stage. Tracking detectors capable of withstanding FRIB intensities while providing high position, timing and energy resolutions are needed for almost every experiment and experimental setup. The NSCL/FRIB Detector Lab is striving to develop new concepts on radiation detectors to fulfill the needs of FRIB. In particular, a large effort is being made in the field of gaseous detectors based on parallel plate chambers (PPAC) and micro pattern gas detectors (MPGD). In this talk I will discuss the recent advances in the development of tracking detector for NSCL and for the future FRIB.