The international ALPHA (Antihydrogen Laser Physics Apparatus) collaboration is the world’s first experiment to contain and make physical measurements of antimatter atoms. Based at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, ALPHA is one of two major TRIUMF-CERN collaborations, the other being the ATLAS detector on CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. ALPHA is using the simplest antimatter atom, antihydrogen, … Continued
T2K (Tokai to Kamioka) is the first experiment to artificially generate neutrinos and explore how they change flavour as they travel, a critical area of research in the search for beyond-Standard Model physics. The Japan-based T2K is one of TRIUMF’s major international collaborations, with TRIUMF scientists, engineers and technicians providing expertise and material contributions from … Continued
TRIUMF provides one of ten international Tier-1 data intensive computing centres for the ATLAS detector’s distributed computing network, part of the globe’s largest and most advanced scientific computing grid. The Tier-1 Centre is part of TRIUMF’s major collaboration in the ATLAS detector at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), including significant contributions to the detector design … Continued
ATLAS is one of the largest and most complex particle detectors ever built, one of the world’s leading tools in the search for beyond-Standard Model physics and a key TRIUMF international collaboration. Based at CERN as part of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), ATLAS is one of the largest scientific collaborations in history. As part … Continued
The international Sudbuty Neutrino Observatory Plus (SNO+) collaboration’s main goal is to solve a key mystery in neutrino science: whether a neutrino is its own antiparticle. Based at SNOLAB, SNO+ is one of five TRIUMF-SNOLAB collaborations involving some of the world’s most advanced experiments in neutrino science (nEXO, HALO), and the search for dark matter … Continued
The international SuperCDMS (Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search) collaboration is attempting to make the first direct detection of a dark matter particle by sensing the tiny vibrations caused by its collision with ordinary matter. Based at SNOLAB, SuperDMS is one of five TRIUMF-SNOLAB collaborations involving some of the world’s most advanced experiments in DM detection … Continued
The AWAKE (Advanced Proton-Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment) international collaboration is the first experiment exploring the use of existing high-energy proton accelerators to power a next-generation of ultra-compact electron accelerators. Based at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland, AWAKE is one of several TRIUMF-CERN collaborations, along with the major ALPHA and ATLAS collaborations. High energy particle physics … Continued
The BRIKEN (Beta-delayed Neutron Measurements at RIKEN) international collaboration is providing a new window into our stardust origins by making the first-ever decay measurements of many of the rare neutron-rich isotopes central to heavy element formation in stars. BRIKEN, a TRIUMF collaboration, is based at the RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science in Wako, Japan. The … Continued
Based at CERN, NA62 is making ultra-precise measurements of some of the rarest forms of particle decay in a search for beyond-standard model forces or particles. NA62 is one of TRIUMF’s major CERN-based international collaborations, which include the ALPHA anti-matter experiment and ATLAS detectors at the Large Hadron Collider. NA62, or North Area 62, refers … Continued
Based at SNOLAB, the international nEXO (next Enriched Xenon Observatory) collaboration’s main goal is to solve a key mystery in neutrino science: whether a neutrino is its own antiparticle. To achieve this, the experiment is searching for the first detection of a theorized form of extremely rare radioactive decay, neutrinoless double beta decay. nEXO is … Continued