Stories

Check Out TRIUMF’s Science Programs on Video!

08 August 2008

If you like action, computer animation, and clever dialogue, a local cinema’s box-office has films to satisfy.

First Acceleration of Charge-bred RIB at ISAC

12 November 2008

On November 11, 2008, a team of scientists led by Dr. Friedhelm Ames successfully accelerated a beam of ⁸⁰Rb¹⁴⁺ ions at TRIUMF’s ISAC facility. This represents the first accelerated, charge-bred rare isotope beam (RIB) at ISAC, making ISAC one of only three facilities in the world with this capability and signaling the beginning of a new program of nuclear physics at TRIUMF

TRIUMF Summer Student Wins Expenses-Paid Trip for Superior Speech

13 August 2008

On the morning of Friday, August 8, 2008, a couple of nervous TRIUMF summer students woke up with sweaty palms and butterflies in their stomachs.

Report Explores Alternatives to Nuclear Reactors for Medical Isotopes

11 November 2008

The Task Force on Alternatives for Medical-Isotope Production today released its final report in prepublication form at URL http://admin.triumf.ca/facility/5yp/comm/Report-vPREPUB.pdf. Task Force was convened by TRIUMF, the University of British Columbia, and Advanced Applied Physics Solution, Inc., with support from Natural Resources Canada.

Another Great Year! The TRIUMF Summer Institute: 20 Years and Counting

21 August 2008

Graduate students and young researchers gathered to engage in learning about current topics in nuclear physics and nuclear astrophysics at the 20th annual TRIUMF Summer Institute (TSI).

The 2008 Nishina Memorial Prize

17 November 2008

A former member of TRIUMF has won the 2008 Nishina Memorial Prize, Japan’s most prestigious annual physics award. Ryu Hayano will receive the award on December 5, celebrating a remarkable career that he began as one of the first PhD students at TRIUMF in the 1970s.

New Observation of Unusual Particle Decay has Potential to Confront the Standard Model

21 August 2008

An international team of scientists working at Brookhaven National Laboratory recently announced new observations of the decay of a certain subatomic particle that has the potential to challenge the Standard Model of particle physics.

Return of the Saturday Morning Physics Lecture

25 November 2008

Beginning at 10 a.m. this Saturday, November 29, TRIUMF is holding the second installment of its Saturday Morning Physics Lecture Series 2008-2009. The series, which is a joint creation of TRIUMF and UBC's Department of Physics and Astronomy, aims to make quantum physics and chemistry accessible to high school students.

Community Lecture: “If I can’t see it, does it matter?”

22 August 2008

On the evening of August 21, 2008, Marcello Pavan, TRIUMF scientist, carried a large cardboard box of green and red plastic balls into the Old Barn Community Centre. “Don’t give the surprise away,” he told me as I taped the small balls together to model the nucleus of a large atom.

Founders of TRIUMF among British Columbia's Most Influential People