Experimental Result |
Understanding the Inner Workings of Novae |
11 July 2013 |
TRIUMF’s DRAGON Group has made the first successful observation of the fusion of radioactive 18F with hydrogen, producing19Ne. In time, this will give astrophysicists another way to observe the inner workings of novae. |
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Experimental Result |
Curious about Technetium-99m? |
20 June 2013 |
Watch a short video about how TRIUMF & partners are solving the medical isotope shortage of Tc-99m, and making it available to all Canadians. |
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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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