The M11 beam channel provides low-intensity beams of pions, muons and positrons for testing and calibrating detectors for particle physics experiments. The typical experiment at a large accelerator like CERN or J-PARC uses complex detectors with many detector subsystems built in different countries, and each subsystem must be tested and verified by their builders in … 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’s Science Technology Facility provides the expertise and specialized construction capacity for the design-to-installation creation of state-of-the-art particle detectors. The Science Technology Facility’s two dozen staff have contributed to the fabrication, in part or full, to more than a dozen detectors for subatomic particle and nuclear physics experiments based at TRIUMF and Canadian and international … 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
TRIUMF’s Theory Department is unique in Canada as a theoretical team embedded in a world-leading rare isotope laboratory. This context provides a synergistic interface between theorists whose original work is informed by leading-edge experimental technologies and results, and in turn whose independent research guides and inspires experimental approaches. The Theory Department specializes in two areas: … 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
The international DEAP-3600 (Dark matter Experiment using Argon Pulse-shaped discrimination) collaboration is an experiment attempting the first direct detection of a dark matter particle. Based at SNOLAB, DEAP-3600 is one of five TRIUMF-SNOLAB collaborations involving some of the world’s most advanced experiments in dark matter detection (see also SuperCDMS) and neutrino science (SNO+, nEXO and … Continued
HALO (the Helium and Lead Observatory) is one of the most patient experiments on Earth, poised to detect neutrinos from an exploding star. The experiment is one of five TRIUMF-SNOLAB collaborations, involving some of the world’s most advanced experiments in neutrino science (SNO+, nEXO), and dark matter detection (DEAP-3600, SuperCDMS). SNOLAB is the deepest underground … Continued