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From the Director |
Measuring Research |
28 March 2012 |
Measuring the quality of research--or the researcher--has long been a challenge. The Globe & Mail has recently featured an effort to rank Canada's talent, and TRIUMF-associated stars do well. |
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Current Events |
Meet One of Canada's Smartest People |
17 March 2012 |
Laura Suen, a TRIUMF Research Assistant, placed second in the CBC's "Canada's Smartest Person" challenge. |
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Workshops & Conferences |
Japan and Canada Muse over Slow Muons |
16 March 2012 |
A workshop involving participants from TRIUMF and KEK convened at TRIUMF in early March to discuss J-PARC's plans for an ultra slow muon facility. |
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Experimental Result |
Now THAT's Popular |
15 March 2012 |
Under the leadership of UBC professor Anna Celler, TRIUMF's nuclear-medicine team published an article in "Physics in Medicine and Biology" that has become one of the top-read articles. |
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Experimental Result |
Nature Physics Cover: Novel Acceleration |
08 March 2012 |
TRIUMF accelerator physicists contribute to an advance that made the cover of March 2012 Nature Physics. The breakthrough pertains to a novel acceleration technique. |
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Current Events |
Students From Singapore Visit TRIUMF |
08 March 2012 |
High school students and their teacher, former TRIUMF scientist, Joe Vaz, visited TRIUMF earlier in the year to see physics in action. |
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Experimental Result |
Daya Bay Collab Measures Neutrinos |
07 March 2012 |
The international Daya Bay Collaboration reports on an elusive neutrino property, confirming and enhancing early results from the Canada/Japan measurements from the T2K collaboration. |
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Experimental Result |
Canadian-led Research Zaps Antimatter |
07 March 2012 |
The ALPHA Collaboration released new results today in Nature. They have successfully manipulated antihydrogen atoms with microwaves. |
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Experimental Result |
Fermilab Narrows in on the Higgs |
07 March 2012 |
Using different search techniques, physicists at Fermilab see hints of Higgs boson sighting consistent with those from LHC. |
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Experimental Result |
Faster-than-light Neutrinos Under Scrutiny |
05 March 2012 |
The controversial results of the faster-than-light neutrino experiment performed at CERN may be due to GPS technical issues. |
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