TRIUMF, which stands for Tri-University Meson Facility, is a particle accelerator laboratory located on the University of British Columbia campus in the University Endowment Lands, just outside the city limits of Vancouver, British Columbia. Its construction was initiated by three local universities: Simon Fraser University, the University of Victoria, and the University of British Columbia. Before its completion they were joined by the University of Alberta. The facility is presently run by a consortium of Canadian agencies and universities: the National Research Council of Canada, the University of Alberta, Carleton University, and the University of Toronto, and the three founding institutions. Mesons of spin 1 form a nonet In particle physics, a meson is a strongly interacting boson, that is, it is a hadron with integral spin. ... A 1960s single stage 2 MeV linear Van de Graaff accelerator, here opened for maintenance A particle accelerator is a device that uses electric fields to propel electrically charged particles to high speeds and magnetic fields to contain them. ... The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university with its main campus located at Point Grey, in the University Endowment Lands adjacent to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and another smaller campus known as UBC Okanagan located in Kelowna, British Columbia. ... The University Endowment Lands (also known as University Hill or the UEL, and colloquially referred to as UBC) is an unincorporated community immediately west of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. ... Vancouver (pronounced: ) is a city in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Official languages English de facto (none stated in law) Flower Pacific dogwood Tree Western Redcedar Bird Stellers Jay Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 36 6 Area... Simon Fraser University (SFU) is located in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, part of the metropolitan area of Vancouver, British Columbia. ... The University of Victoria (usually known as UVic) is located in Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (northeast of Victoria). ... The University of Alberta is situated along the south bank of the North Saskatchewan River in the heart of the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ... The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) is Canadas leading organization for scientific research and development. ... The University of Alberta is situated along the south bank of the North Saskatchewan River in the heart of the city of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. ... Carleton University is a co-educational, international university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. ... The University of Toronto (U of T) is a coeducational public research university in Toronto, Ontario. ...

Asteroid 14959 TRIUMF is named in honour of the laboratory.

Facilities

TRIUMF Cyclotron

In operation since 1974, the main accelerator is currently the world's largest cyclotron, and at 500 MeV (million electronvolts), it produces one of the world's most intense proton beams (not true, the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) has a K1200 cyclotron). The main magnet is 18m diameter with a weight of 4000 Tonnes and a field of 5600 gauss; operating at a frequency 23 MHz. 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... A pair of Dee electrodes with loops of coolant pipes on their surface at the Lawrence Hall of Science. ... An electronvolt (symbol: eV) is the amount of energy gained by a single unbound electron when it falls through an electrostatic potential difference of one volt. ... The electronvolt (symbol eV, or, rarely and incorrectly, ev) is a unit of energy. ... Properties [1][2] In physics, the proton (Greek proton = first) is a subatomic particle with an electric charge of one positive fundamental unit (1. ... Iron filings in a magnetic field generated by a bar magnet A magnet is an object that has a magnetic field. ...

TRIUMF Isotope Separation and ACceleration (ISAC)

The ISAC facility produces and uses heavy ion beams to produces short live isotopes for study. A linear accelerator is used to produce particles with energies similar to those found in stellar interiors for studies of the reactions involved in nucleosynthesis. It also used for other atomic and nuclear physics experiments. Nucleosynthesis is the process of creating new atomic nuclei from preexisting nucleons (protons and neutrons). ...

Batho Biomedical Facility and Pion Therapy Treatment

Facility used to direct pion beam accurately for the treatment for deep-seated, inoperable brain tumours and for advanced cases of prostate cancer. Used for clinical studies. Proton beams are also used to treat cancer of the eye. TRIUMF built the Positron Emission Tomography scanner in use at the UBC Hospital.

Other Activities

TRIUMF is also involved in the development and construction of detectors and equipment for larger particle physics experiments.

Large Hadron Collider

TRIUMF contributed to the construction of the ATLAS detector for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Currently approved but not yet under construction at TRIUMF is a Tier 1 Data Centre for the offline analysis of LHC data. ATLAS experiment detector under construction in October 2004 in its experimental pit; the current status of construction can be seen here. ... The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a particle accelerator and collider located at CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland ( ). Currently under construction, the LHC is scheduled to start operation in November 2007, when it will become the worlds largest and highest energy particle accelerator. ... CERN logo The Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (English: European Organization for Nuclear Research), commonly known as CERN, pronounced (or in French), is the worlds largest particle physics laboratory, situated just west of Geneva on the border between France and Switzerland. ...

T2K

TRIUMF is part of the T2K (Tokai-to-Kamioka) neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan. TRIUMF is involved in constructing a time projection chamber for the T2K near detector, to measure the properties of the neutrino beam at its production site in Tokai before it travels 295 km to Kamioka, over which distance neutrino oscillations are expected to take place. The Kamioka Observatory, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research ) is a neutrino physics laboratory located underground in the Mozumi Mine of the Kamioka Mining and Smelting Co. ... The neutrino is an elementary particle. ... In physics, a time projection chamber is a particle detector consisting of a gas-filled cylindrical chamber with multiwire proportional chambers (MWPC) as endplates. ...

OPAL

TRIUMF scientists were involved with the OPAL experiment at the CERN LEP collider, which has now ended operations. CERN logo The Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire (English: European Organization for Nuclear Research), commonly known as CERN, pronounced (or in French), is the worlds largest particle physics laboratory, situated just west of Geneva on the border between France and Switzerland. ... The LEP tunnel at CERN, now being filled with magnets for the LHC The Large Electron-Positron Collider (LEP) is one of the largest particle accelerators finished so far. ...

External links

• http://www.triumf.info

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