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From the Director |
Dr. Alan Astbury |
25 July 2014 |
Dr. Alan Astbury, Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of
Victoria, died on July 21 following a brief illness. Alan, a leading
figure in Canadian science, served as Director of TRIUMF from 1994-2001.
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Awards & Honours |
ARIEL Wins Engineering Excellence Award |
24 July 2014 |
Congratulations
to the ARIEL team, as well our engineering consultants Stantec Consulting Ltd., Applied
Engineering Solutions Ltd. and Bush, Bohlman & Partners Ltd, recipients of the 2013
ACEC-BC’s Engineering Excellence Award of Merit. |
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Funding Announcements |
Dark Matter (Detector) Crossing Borders |
22 July 2014 |
The Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search is an international experiment on
the hunt for dark matter, currently based in Minnesota and with plans
to advance the project by building a more sensitive detector at
Canada’s SNOLAB. |
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Current Events |
SNOLAB Director Nigel Smith Reappointed |
21 July 2014 |
The SNOLAB Institute Board of Directors announced the re-appointment of Dr. Nigel Smith to a second term as Director of SNOLAB, following a very successful inaugural term that resulted in the first scientific results coming from SNOLAB experiments.
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Experimental Result |
DRAGON Probes Mass Limit in Novae |
10 July 2014 |
Recently, the DRAGON facility ran the highest mass
radiative-capture experiment ever performed with a radioactive beam, and in so
doing, probed the upper mass limit for nucleosynthesis in novae. |
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Current Events |
Mini-Symposium For Grad & Postdocs |
09 July 2014 |
The
Society of Graduate Students and Postdocs organized a mini-symposium on June
13, 2014, to support eight students and postdocs in the
preparation of their talks for the 2014 CAP Congress. Over 30 graduate students and postdocs gathered to hear their
peers share their work. |
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Awards & Honours |
ISAC & ARIEL Reference Book Released |
09 July 2014 |
Scientists involved with radioactive-beam experiments at TRIUMF have a new reference guidebook that will prove to be an invaluable resource. ISAC and ARIEL: The TRIUMF Radioactive Beam Facilities and the Scientific Program contains information about each step of the beam's path and the future of ARIEL. |
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Experimental Result |
Accelerators: Potato Chips to Power Plants |
07 July 2014 |
From the low energy electrons in CRT monitors to the tremendous near-light speed protons of the LHC, particle accelerators are everywhere. Accelerators are more commonplace than you might expect, with applications ranging from manufacturing to energy production to agriculture. |
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Current Events |
700 Cables Pulled Propels E-linac Installation |
03 July 2014 |
1400
cables are needed to bring the e-linac to life this September. Over 60
volunteers from the Science and Accelerator Divisions marked the 700th cable
pulled at ARIEL’s Electron Hall. Only 700 more cables to go as we leap toward
the Sept 30th goal of beam delivery to the tuning dump! |
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Current Events |
Plug Into Our Digital Community |
25 June 2014 |
Be in the know and stay connected
with TRIUMF! TRIUMF
is offering a “Be our Scientist of the Summer” sweepstakes through Facebook. One fan (and nine friends) of TRIUMF will get an exclusive
tour, Q&A with research scientists and a pizza party. |
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