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Experimental Result |
..and We're There! |
04 July 2012 |
Particle physicists celebrated 'round the world this morning as the two CERN experiments ATLAS and CMS confirmed observation of a new particle consistent with the Higgs boson. |
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Experimental Result |
...to the Higgs... |
03 July 2012 |
The hunt for the Higgs closes in! Stop by TRIUMF on Wed morning, July 4, to meet BC scientists and students and learn about the new Higgs results. |
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Experimental Result |
Getting Closer and Closer... |
03 July 2012 |
Scientists working with U.S.-based Fermilab announced their latest, and perhaps greatest, results in the hunt for the Higgs boson on July 2. The CERN-based experiments will reveal their news Wednesday morning. |
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Current Events |
Tom Ruth Retires |
28 June 2012 |
Tom Ruth, who launched the nuclear-medicine program at TRIUMF nearly three decades ago, fully retired from TRIUMF in late June. |
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Experimental Result |
Finding the Magic |
22 June 2012 |
An international team of scientists including TRIUMF's Reiner Kruecken have announced success in producing, isolating, and studying the exotic Tin-100 isotope, an atom that is "doubly magic" because it has a special and equal number of protons and neutrons. |
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Experimental Result |
Standard Model under Strain? |
19 June 2012 |
An international team of scientists including Canadians has squeezed new results out of the BaBar particle-physics experiment in the U.S. One analysis shows a slight excess compared to Standard Model predictions. |
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Awards & Honours |
Anadi as Co-Convener in ATLAS Subgroup |
12 June 2012 |
TRIUMF Research Scientist, Anadi Canepa, was recently nominated to be co-convenor of the SUSY group for the ATLAS experiment at CERN. |
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Headlines |
CERN's Director-General Kicks off PLHC |
06 June 2012 |
CERN's Director-General, Rolf Heuer, kicked off the Physics at the Large Hadron Collider conference on Sunday, June 3rd with a free public lecture that filled the OMNIMAX theatre at the Telus World of Science. |
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Awards & Honours |
Former TRIUMF Student Awarded Stoicheff Scholarship |
28 May 2012 |
Former TRIUMF student, Wilson Brenna, recently won the Inaugural Stoicheff Scholarship, awarded by the Canadian Associaition of Physicists. |
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Research Highlights |
SNOLAB's Undergound Lab Grand Opening |
24 May 2012 |
The grand opening of SNOLAB's underground laboratory was held on May 17, 2012. The undergound laboratory will be used to further research in particle astrophysics. |
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