Science Updates
How do neutron star mergers and exploding stars create the elements?
(The TIGRESS detector, which was highlighted in the publication First Measurement of a Weak 𝑟-Process Reaction on a Radioactive Nucleus published…
New BeEST results establish first-ever direct lower limit on neutrino wavepacket
(A Superconducting Tunnel junction array / credit: BeEST collaboration) Neutrinos are some of the most mysterious particles in the universe.…
Long-sought measurement of exotic beta decay in thallium helps extract the timescale of the birth of the Sun
An international collaboration of scientists succeeded in the measurement of the bound-state beta decay of fully-ionised thallium (thallium-205 81+) ions at the…
NA62 collaboration confirms one-in-10-billion kaon decay
On September 24, the NA62 collaboration working at CERN announced the ‘unequivocal confirmation’ of a rare and significant interaction: the rare decay of a…
TRIUMF welcomes Dr. Rituparna Kanungo as next Director, Physical Sciences Division
TRIUMF is pleased to announce that Dr. Rituparna Kanungo has been selected as the laboratory’s next Director of the Physical…
CBC News visits TRIUMF
Recently, CBC News Vancouver reporter, Darius Mahdavi visited TRIUMF to get the scoop about TRIUMF and the world's largest cyclotron.…Barry Davids selected as 2024 APS Outstanding Referee
The American Physical Society (APS) has selected Barry Davids, TRIUMF Research Scientist and Deputy Department Head, Nuclear Physics, as an Outstanding Referee for 2024. …Doug Bryman awarded 2024 CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal
This year’s CAP-TRIUMF Vogt Medal has been awarded to Professor Doug Bryman. Professor Bryman holds the J. B. Warren Chair…
New tools in nuclear astrophysics toolbox enable novel alpha-n studies for DRAGON and EMMA
In the fascinating realm of nuclear physics, two sister facilities, DRAGON (ISAC-I) and EMMA (ISAC-II), have been making strides in advancing our understanding of…ALPHA experiment included in CBC’s significant science stories list for 2023
TRIUMF researchers with the ALPHA-g team, an international collaboration based at CERN, were involved in an experiment that CBC Radio's…ALPHA physicists observe the first gravitational free-fall of antimatter
(image: Lars Martin, TRIUMF Support Physicist, making adjustments within the ALPHA-g detector) In the world’s first observation of the effect…
