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  • We are Particle People

    Our own Beatrice Franke has been featured on interactions.org! Her story will appear on http://www.interactions.org/particle-people over the next month.

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    Posted on 05 Apr 2017

  • The D2O Cryostat is In!

    Ultracold neutron (UCN) news flash: The spallation target for the UCN source was installed last week, and now the first of the cryostats from Japan has been installed. Photo: Jason Chak and Cam Marshall help the cryostat into place.

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    Posted on 29 Apr 2016

  • Detectors Made of Diamonds

    We made a particle detector out of diamond, the first application of a detector of this kind in a particle physics experiment. Read about it in Phys. Rev. X.

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    Posted on 17 Feb 2016

  • Lithium-6 or not?

    Lithium-6 captures neutrons, splitting apart into an alpha and a triton. If you put regular scintillating glass on top of glass containing Li-6, it makes a very efficient ultracold neutron detector. The trouble is, once they're bonded together, can you tell which side contains the Li-6? Blair Jamieson and Lori Rebenitsch figured out a way that doesn't require an ultracold neutron source!

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    Posted on 01 Jun 2015

  • Archaelogical Discovery at TRIUMF

    Excavators at TRIUMF today uncovered a new archaeological discovery: the future home of our ultracold neutron source! Picture: Jason Chak demonstrates the size and location of the apparatus.

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    Posted on 27 Mar 2015

  • Kickin' It Old School

    Image: the new kicker magnet under construction at Danfysik, in Denmark. The kicker magnet will deliver protons from the TRIUMF cyclotron to our ultracold neutron source.

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    Posted on 12 Feb 2015

  • Best Magnetically Shielded Tube

    We developed a new magnetic sensor based on laser excitation of rubidium. We used it to demonstrate a very large magnetic shielding factor for our newly designed magnetic shields. The results were reported in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research.

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    Posted on 26 Jan 2015

  • Andrew wins poster competition!

    Andrew Harrison was awarded first place at the 9th Annual Randy Kobes Poster Competition, held September 17 in the Richardson College for the Environment and Science Complex at the University of Winnipeg. Also competing from our group were Sean Hansen-Romu, Wolfgang Klassen, and Steven Waldron. Coming in third place was Sashika Kumaragamage.

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    Posted on 24 Sep 2014

  • Coils inside magnetic shielding

    Our paper in IEEE Magnetics Letters provides new insight into the design of coil structures to be contained within magnetic shielding. The results are useful for designing magnetic shielding and shield-coupled coils for electric dipole moment experiments.

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    Posted on 28 Jul 2014

  • Magnetic Shielding in Gradients

    We published an article in AIP Advances on how magnetic field gradients interact with passive magnetic shielding. The results are useful for designing all kinds of magnetic field systems, including those for an nEDM experiment.

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    Posted on 01 May 2014

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