Story Archive

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

Category	Title	Date	Excerpt
Experimental Result	X-Ray Laser Penetrates Stellar Mystery	13 December 2012	Experimental work from TRIUMF fed into a U.S. DOE experiment that has shed light on the role of highly-charged iron isotopes in stellar evolution.
Experimental Result	Higgs Boson: Quo Vadis	12 March 2013	Flashforward! Since the discovery last July, TRIUMF ATLAS and CMS researchers are flourishing with data, analyzing results, and continue to decipher the Higgs boson particle puzzle.
Student Stories	Former Student Builds Mini Accelerator	02 April 2012	Former TRIUMF student, Nick Zacchia, had a hand in creating a miniature electron accelerator for his Capstone project at Concordia University.
Student Stories	TRIUMF Awards Top Undergraduates	21 May 2013	Four of Canada's top undergraduate students received this year's TRIUMF Undergraduate Summer Research Awards to honour their dedication and potential in physics and engineering research.
Student Stories	Gabriel's Notebook: The Last Week	10 August 2011	Gabriel writes about his final week here at TRIUMF where he learns about the M20 beam line with co-op student Theresa LeRoss.
Student Stories	Carmen's Corner: My first week at TRIUMF	09 July 2012	Grade 10 student Carmen Wong is visiting TRIUMF for 5 weeks. She is at TRIUMF as part of the Emerging Aboriginal Scholars Summer Camp put on by the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences.
Experimental Result	HALO is operational at SNOLAB	09 May 2012	HALO, a neutrino detector located in SNOLAB, is now up and running. TRIUMF researcher, Stan Yen, played a significant role in the design and construction of the detector.
Experimental Result	Summer Ends with the Thrill of Victory	22 August 2011	Heroic efforts make the commissioning of Beam Line 1A after extensive repairs and the refurbishing of Target Module 1 very successful. Congratulations to the hard-working teams!
Experimental Result	Cyclotron Winter Shutdown	02 April 2013	It's that time of the year again when the once energetic paperclips lie limp atop of our Meson Hall's tables while TRIUMF’s cyclotron is turned off for major maintenance activities.
Experimental Result	Mo-99 Collaboration: MDS Nordion & TRIUMF	28 April 2009	MDS Nordion and TRIUMF announced on Tuesday, April 28, 2009, that they have signed an agreement to study the feasibility of producing a viable and reliable supply of photo-fission-produced molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) used globally for diagnostic medical imaging.