TRIUMF

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TRIUMF, which stands for Tri-University Meson Facility, is a particle accelerator laboratory located on the University of British Columbia campus in the University Endowment Lands, just outside the city limits of Vancouver, British Columbia. Its construction was initiated by three local universities: Simon Fraser University, the University of Victoria, and the University of British Columbia. Before its completion they were joined by the University of Alberta. The facility is presently run by a consortium of Canadian agencies and universities: the National Research Council of Canada, the University of Alberta, Carleton University, and the University of Toronto, and the three founding institutions.

Asteroid 14959 TRIUMF is named in honour of the laboratory.

1 Facilities
2 Other Activities
3 External links

[edit] Facilities

[edit] TRIUMF Cyclotron

In operation since 1974, the main accelerator is currently the world's largest cyclotron, and at 500 MeV (million electronvolts), it produces one of the world's most intense proton beams. The main magnet is 18m diameter with a weight of 4000 Tonnes and a field of 5600 gauss; operating at a frequency 23 MHz.

[edit] TRIUMF Isotope Separation and ACceleration (ISAC)

The ISAC facility produces and uses heavy ion beams to produces short live isotopes for study. A linear accelerator is used to produce particles with energies similar to those found in stellar interiors for studies of the reactions involved in nucleosynthesis. It also used for other atomic and nuclear physics experiments.

[edit] Batho Biomedical Facility and Pion Therapy Treatment

Facility used to direct pion beam accurately for the treatment for deep-seated, inoperable brain tumours and for advanced cases of prostate cancer. Used for clinical studies. Proton beams are also used to treat cancer of the eye. TRIUMF built the Positron Emission Tomography scanner in use at the UBC Hospital.

[edit] Other Activities

TRIUMF is also involved in the development and construction of detectors and equipment for larger particle physics experiments.

[edit] Large Hadron Collider

TRIUMF contributed to the construction of the ATLAS detector for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Currently approved but not yet under construction at TRIUMF is a Tier 1 Data Centre for the offline analysis of LHC data.

[edit] T2K

TRIUMF is part of the T2K (Tokai-to-Kamioka) neutrino oscillation experiment in Japan. TRIUMF is involved in constructing a time projection chamber for the T2K near detector, to measure the properties of the neutrino beam at its production site in Tokai before it travels 295 km to Kamioka, over which distance neutrino oscillations are expected to take place.