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Experimental Result |
Qweak Experiment Starts at Jefferson Lab |
26 November 2010 |
After more than ten years of planning and construction, the Qweak experiment at Jefferson lab is now taking data. The experiment will make a very precise measurement of the proton's `weak charge', which has a well defined value in the current standard model of physics. |
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Experimental Result |
ALPHA Collaboration captures antimatter |
17 November 2010 |
Boldly going where the universe has not gone before, a group of international scientists at the CERN laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland have succeeded in capturing anti-matter atoms. |
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Current Events |
Japan/Canada Scientific Symposium at TRIUMF |
04 November 2010 |
On October 25, 2010, TRIUMF hosted the second Japan/ Canada scientific symposium. It focused on potential synergies between the KEK laboratory in Japan and TRIUMF in Canada. |
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Workshops & Conferences |
BC Science Teachers' Pro-D Day at TRIUMF |
01 November 2010 |
On Friday, October 22, 2010, 60 British Columbia high school math and science teachers visited TRIUMF for the district-wide Professional Development Day. |
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Current Events |
Scientific Attaché of Italy visits TRIUMF |
21 October 2010 |
On Septem-ber 29th, 2010, the Scientific Attaché from Italy, Dr. Emanuele Fiore, made a visit to TRIUMF, Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics. |
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Experimental Result |
New Record of DRAGON-ian Sensitivity |
19 October 2010 |
TRIUMF's flagship nuclear astro physics facility known as DRAGON has set a new record for ultimate sensitivity—distinguishing between haystacks with needles in them and those without. |
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Current Events |
TRIUMF & DESY take top prizes in Global Photowalk |
14 October 2010 |
A sunburst image of a particle detector at Germany’s DESY laboratory and a black-and-white photograph of a nuclear-physics experiment at TRIUMF in Canada have won the top prizes in the first-ever Global Particle Physics Photowalk. |
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Experimental Result |
Diamond Detector Irradiation Tests Success |
13 October 2010 |
Particle physicists from the ATLAS groups at Carleton, Montreal, Toronto, Victoria, and TRIUMF have confirmed that diamond detectors can withstand the impact of 1017 protons per square centimetre, relevant to a future upgrade to the LHC. |
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Current Events |
Canada Must Seek Innovation, Says Coalition |
13 October 2010 |
Canada's private and public sectors should move quickly to implement reforms that would strengthen the country’s innovation capacity a coalition of business leaders said today. |
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From the Director |
Former TRIUMF Board Chair Steps in to Lead U Waterloo |
04 October 2010 |
Effective October 1, Waterloo provost and former TRIUMF Board Chair Feridun Hamdullahpur became president of the university on an interim basis. |
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