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

Research Facilities

As a laboratory, TRIUMF operates many research facilities on-site and enables Canadian researchers to participate in facilities outside the country.  The main facilities at TRIUMF are:

 

Main Cyclotron & Proton Beam Lines

At the heart of TRIUMF is the 500 MeV cyclotron that produces the primary proton beams. A large fraction of the TRIUMF program relies on these beams.

ISAC Facilities for Rare-Isotope Beams

The TRIUMF Isotope Separator and Accelerator (ISAC) facility uses the isotope separation on-line (ISOL) technique to produce rare-isotope beams (RIB). The ISOL system consists of a primary production beam, a target/ion source, a mass separator, and beam transport system.



ATLAS Canadian Tier-1 Data Centre

The ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN will use proton-proton collisions at the highest energy ever achieved in the laboratory to look for the Higgs boson, the particle central to the current model of how subatomic particles attain mass.

Nuclear Medicine Laboratories

The core of the TRIUMF nuclear medicine program is PET imaging, a technique whereby tiny amounts of radioactive nuclei known as radioisotopes are combined with certain biomolecules and injected into the body.

 

 

Centre for Molecular & Materials Science

TRIUMF uses subatomic particles as probes of materials structure at the Centre for Molecular and Materials Science (CMMS).  The chief techniques are μSR and β-NMR.

Laboratory for Advanced Detector Development

TRIUMF contributes to the design, development, and construction of advanced detectors for diverse applications in particle and nuclear physics, molecular and materials sciences, and nuclear medicine.

Proton & Neutron Irradiation Facilities

The Proton Irradiation Facility (PIF) is used for radiation damage and single event effect studies of electronic and detector components. The Neutron Irradiation Facility (NIF) uses neutrons produced at the final beam stop on BL1A where greater than 100 µA of 450 MeV protons are absorbed.

 

 

Future Facilities

TRIUMF's Five Year Plan outlines a number of areas of desired expansion which includes:

  • Refurbish the Cyclotron
  • Specialized Actinide Beam Line
  • New Target Station
  • Front End
  • E-linac