Student Stories |
Collaboration Advances Target Technology |
28 May 2013 |
UBC Mechanical Engineering students collaborated with TRIUMF's Applied Technology Group for a fourth year capstone project- a new universal modular design for target stations within the beam line from the cyclotron. |
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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. |
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Experimental Result |
CERN-ISOLDE Reports Pear-Shaped Nuclei |
09 May 2013 |
CERN's ISOLDE collaboration recently announced progress with analyzing the shapes of heavy, rare isotopes. TRIUMF's RadonEDM experiment will follow on the heels and is poised for dramatic progress with its Ion-Guide Laser Ion Source. |
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Experimental Result |
AMS Measures Antimatter Excess in Space |
04 April 2013 |
Delving into one of today's greatest mysteries in physics, AMS announced the first results in its search for dark matter. |
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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. |
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Experimental Result |
Looking for Wrong-Handed Neutrinos |
18 March 2013 |
TRINAT examines decaying particles as they change from one state to another to address possible holes in the Standard Model of particle physics. |
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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. |
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Experimental Result |
The Shape of Things to Come |
09 February 2013 |
A U.S.-Canadian team including TRIUMF scientists has used the 8pi detector to study how an exotic nuclei (Zr-94) can take on widely different shapes; the results have been published in Phys. Rev. Lett. |
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Experimental Result |
Magic at the Interface |
18 January 2013 |
Researchers have used TRIUMF's β-NMR facility to study phenomena that arise when different materials are sandwiched together in thin slices. The result was published in Phys. Rev. Letters. |
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Experimental Result |
Making Anti-Hydrogen Cool(er) |
06 January 2013 |
A science paper co-authored by TRIUMF scientist Makoto Fujiwara predicts that new techniques planned for the ALPHA experiment will allow anti-hydrogen atoms to cooled with 10x greater effectiveness than previously. |
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