Welcome to TRIUMF
This page is currently under construction -- watch for new material to
be added on TRIUMF's research programs and other activities.
We are located on the campus of the University of British Columbia,
4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, Canada. Phone (604) 222-1047.
If you would like to visit and learn about our laboratory,
guided public tours
are available.
If you can't make it here in person, try
Andrew Daviel's on-line
Cybertour.
TRIUMF is Canada's national meson research facility. It provides world-leading
facilities for experiments in subatomic research with beams of pions,
muons, protons and neutrons. The laboratory is managed as a Joint Venture by
four universities:
- University of Alberta
- Simon Fraser University
- University of Victoria
- University of British Columbia
with associate members:
- University of Manitoba
- Université de Montréal
- University of Regina
- University of Toronto
and is operated under a contribution from the National Research Council
of Canada.
The world's largest cyclotron
The giant TRIUMF cyclotron accelerates negatively-charged hydrogen ions to
75% of the speed of light. Intense beams of protons are then directed out
of the cyclotron. At these energies (75% of the speed of light = 225,000
km/second), short-lived particles called pions can be created (at a rate
1000 times greater than that of earlier accelerators). And because TRIUMF
is so efficient at creating pions (also called "pi-mesons"), the facility
is known as a meson factory, one of three such facilities in the world.
The History
of TRIUMF (under construction).
TRIUMF Activities
Some drawings from our Design Office
Atoms to Quarks
Experiment 787 Detector
Experiment 787 Drift Chamber
Eye Therapy Using Proton Beams
This page maintained by:
kost@triumf.ca (C.J. Kost)
Last updated: 28-May-96
Atoms to Quarks 
Experiment 787 Detector
Experiment 787 Drift Chamber
Eye Therapy Using Proton Beams