This past weekend, we welcomed nearly one hundred current and former staff members, friends and family from the TRIUMF community to share stories of the 50th anniversary of the first beam.
An international collaboration, including TRIUMF, has succeeded in the measurement of the bound-state beta decay of fully-ionised thallium (205Tl81+) ions at the GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt. The results are published in Nature.
On November 4, TRIUMF and French research organization CNRS signed a partnership agreement to create the NPAT (‘Nuclear Physics, Nuclear Astrophysics and Accelerator Technologies) international research laboratory at TRIUMF.
The NA62 collaboration has announced the ‘unequivocal confirmation’ of a rare and significant interaction: the rare decay of a positive kaon into a positively charged pion and a neutrino-antineutrino pair.
Today, the Honourable Harjit S. Sajjan, Minister of Emergency Preparedness and Minister responsible for the Pacific Economic Development Agency of Canada, visited TRIUMF to highlight the government’s investment of $399.8 million over five years, as announced in Budget 2024.
The King Charles III Coronation Medal was awarded to outstanding individuals in British Columbia during a ceremony with the lieutenant governor this week. TRIUMF's Ombudsperson and EDI resource for the lab, Grace Wong Sneddon, was a recipient for her work as co-chair of the Chinese Canadian Museum Society where she brought voice to the history of Chinese Canadians.
For his thesis (“Development of Statistical Tools for Studies of the Rapid Neutron Capture Process”), Saito focused on the origin of the elements heavier than iron in the rapid neutron capture process (r-process)
Kanungo is an accomplished nuclear physicist and an experienced leader, and she brings a wide range of expertise built at TRIUMF and at facilities around the world through the leadership of scientific programming and international collaborations.
