Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics Laboratoire national canadien pour la recherche en physique nucléaire et en physique des particules

Headlines

05 March 2010

TRIUMF's director Nigel S. Lockyer writes to the community about how he envisions the implementation of the Five-Year Plan 2010-2015 with the core operating funds secured through this week's Federal Budget announcement.

04 March 2010

The Government of Canada announced its renewed support for TRIUMF as part of knowledge economy, committing $222 million over the next 5 years as part of TRIUMF's Five-Year Plan 2010-2015.

03 March 2010

Tao Kong, Ph.D. candidate at UBC, was awarded the Dr. Carl W. Wescott Memorial Fellowship for 2009/2010 for his research at TRIUMF.


Research Highlights

11 March 2010

The G-Zero team is publishing conclusions about the role of strange quarks inside of protons and neutrons. The collaboration includes scientists from TRIUMF, UNBC, and the University of Manitoba.

25 February 2010

The Japanese-led multinational T2K collaboration announced that they had detected the first neutrinos produced 295 km away at the J-PARC facility. Canada has the largest participating team outside of Japan.

11 February 2010

TRIUMF scientists contributed to two recently published papers which set out to explore a new regime in trap physics using the Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus (ALPHA).