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

TRIUMF’s Mission Statement

TRIUMF is Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics. It is owned and operated as a joint venture by a consortium of Canadian universities via a contribution through the National Research Council Canada with building capital funds provided by the Government of British Columbia. Its mission is:

  • To make discoveries that address the most compelling questions in particle physics, nuclear physics, nuclear medicine, and materials science;
  • To act as Canada’s steward for the advancement of particle accelerators and detection technologies; and
  • To transfer knowledge, train highly skilled personnel, and commercialize research for the economic, social, environmental, and health benefit of all Canadians.

TRIUMF est le laboratoire national canadien pour la physique nucléaire et la physique des particules. Il est géré en co-entreprise par un consortium d'universités canadiennes à partir d'une contribution supervisée par le Conseil national de recherches Canada avec des fonds capitaux pour les installations immobilières fournis par le gouvernement de la Colombie-Britannique. Sa mission est :

  • de faire des découvertes qui répondent aux questions les plus pressantes de la physique des particules, la physique nucléaire, la médecine nucléaire et les sciences des matériaux ;
  • de gérer à l'avancement des technologies de l'accélération et de la détection des particules au Canada; et
  • de diffuser le savoir, de former du personnel hautement qualifié, et de promouvoir la recherche pour le bien-être économique, social, environnemental et pour la santé de tous les Canadiens et de toutes les Canadiennes.

--Approved June 1, 2008, by TRIUMF Board of Management

Objectives

In the context of the laboratory’s mission, TRIUMF’s five-year planning process has identified targeted opportunities that are ripe for exploitation: they build on TRIUMF’s successes, play to Canadian strengths, and promise high-impact results. The goals of the TRIUMF Five-Year Plan are:

  • Substantially expand TRIUMF’s rare-isotope beam program;
  • Lead the coming revolution in nuclear medicine;
  • Expand Canadian access to international science;
  • Pursue advanced accelerator technologies--build a new superconducting accelerator for generating not-yet-discovered heavy isotopes;
  • Participate fully in the international Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project at CERN;
  • Exploit targeted opportunities for commercialization with partners such as Advanced Applied Physics Solutions, Inc.; and
  • Train the next generation of leaders in Canadian science, technology, and innovation.