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  • Editors suggest kicking protons

    Our paper was selected as an "Editors' suggestion" in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams.

    Photo: Cam Marshall and Des Ramsay inspect the kicker magnet during testing at TRIUMF.

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    Posted on 17 Oct 2019

  • Atomic Shrapnel

    We were featured in Physics Central's "Physics Buzz Blog".

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    Posted on 08 Apr 2019

  • First ultracold neutrons

    The ultracold neutron collaboration at TRIUMF reports first ultracold neutron production.

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    Posted on 22 Nov 2017

  • 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 Last Brick

    (March 8, 2017) Photo: The laying of the last brick. Students (Left to right) Beryl Bell, Sean Vanbergen, and Matthew Palmer set the final graphite brick into place near the UCN cryostat. The graphite is used as a moderator and reflector for neutrons, giving them a chance to enter the superfluid helium in the cryostat and become ultracold.

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    Posted on 08 Mar 2017

  • How many neutrons do we make?

    Tuesday, November 22, 2016 (Vancouver). PHOTO: Lori Rebenitsch (U. Winnipeg/U. Manitoba, left) and Tatsuya Kikawa (TRIUMF, right) insert samples for neutron irradiation. The residual activity of the samples will tell us how many neutrons we made, and their temperature.

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    Posted on 23 Nov 2016

  • First beam for UCN

    Tuesday, November 22, 2016 (Vancouver). First proton beam was delivered down our new beamline to the spallation target. PHOTO: The celebration in the TRIUMF Main Control Room. This is the source of neutrons for our Ultracold Neutron Source.

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    Posted on 23 Nov 2016

  • 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

  • Abotossaway Featured

    Former student Mark Abotossaway was featured on the front cover of "Winds of Change". Mark is now an aerospace engineer at Boeing, in Seattle, Washington.

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    Posted on 28 Apr 2016

  • Konaka wins Vogt Medal

    Our colleague Akira Konaka (TRIUMF) has won the Vogt Medal, awarded by the Canadian Association of Physicists. The Vogt Medal recognizes outstanding experimental or theoretical contributions to subatomic physics.

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    Posted on 28 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

  • UCN Project Takes Big Step Forward

    The Ultra-Cold Neutron (UCN) project kicks off the construction of a state-of-the-art experimental area. Upon completion, the UCN facility will produce the highest density of UCN in the world and enable a new generation of experiments into the fundamental interactions of neutrons.

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    Posted on 16 Apr 2014

  • First Results of the Q-weak Experiment

    Image: (September 19, 2013) First results of the Q-weak experiment at Jefferson Lab, indicated by "This Experiment". Our group built the Focal Plane Scanner for the main spectrometer, and the diamond strip tracker for electron detection in the Compton polarimeter. Dr. Jie Pan completed her PhD on the experiment last year.

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    Posted on 16 Apr 2014

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