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The TRIUMF laboratory’s 50-year legacy is imprinted on its of rainforest on the University of British Columbia’s (UBC) south 13-acre campus in Vancouver; decades-old buildings of cinder- campus, is this year reflecting on its rich past, its vibrant present block and corrugated steel sit alongside new facilities housing state- and the promise of a bright future. of-the-art equipment. With each new facility, the lab continues its half-century journey from a regional tri-university meson facility The tri-university meson facility (from where the acronym TRIUMF comes) to a national and inter- The first inklings for the tri-university meson facility were them- national hub for science. selves a product of three separate elements: a trio of Canadian At the laboratory’s centre is the original 520 MeV cyclotron, a universities, a novel accelerator concept and an appetite for col- negative-hydrogen-ion accelerator so well engineered when it was laboration within the field of nuclear physics in the early 1960s. first built that it continues to function (albeit with updated controls And the researchers involved were well positioned to develop such and electronics) as TRIUMF’s heart. Over the past 50 years, the a proposal. John Warren, at that time head of the nuclear-physics TRIUMF cyclotron has spurred the growth of a diverse and mul- group at UBC, had established a team of remarkable graduate tidisciplinary community whose ideas continue to coax new uses students while constructing a 3 MeV Van de Graaff accelerator. from the decades-old accelerator. These new applications serve to Erich Vogt had just transitioned to the UBC physics faculty from continuously redefine TRIUMF as an institution: a superconducting an illustrious career as a theoretical nuclear physicist at the Chalk linear accelerator that complements the original cyclotron; 17 uni- River Laboratory in Ontario. And finally, J Reginald Richardson, versities and counting that have joined the original trio; and an a Canadian-born physicist at the University of California in Los expanding network of collaborators that now spans the globe. Angeles (UCLA), who had finalised a concept for a sector-focused, TRIUMF, which began with a daring idea and a simple patch spiral-ridge negative-hydrogen-ion cyclotron – many of the ideas

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for which came while holidaying at his cottage on Galiano Island Line) project in 1987, which used an isotope-separation concept on the West Coast of British Columbia. In the years that followed, developed at CERN’s ISOLDE facility. Experience at TISOL gave all three of them would go on to become a director of TRIUMF. its proponents confidence that a much-larger-scale rare-isotope- At the time, the world was ready to dig deeper into nuclear struc- beams facility could be built at TRIUMF. And so the Isotope Sepa- ture and explore other hadronic mysteries using powerful meson rator and Accelerator (ISAC) era was born at TRIUMF. Today, beams. This push for “meson factories” led to LAMPF in the US, SIN TRIUMF’s ISAC boasts the highest production power of any (now PSI) in Switzerland and, eventually, TRIUMF in Vancouver. ISOL-type facility and some of the highest rates of rare-isotope In 1964, a young physicist named Michael Craddock (who would production in the world. ISAC enables TRIUMF to produce iso- become a long-time CERN Courier contributor) completed his topes for a variety of research areas, including studies of the forma- PhD in nuclear physics at the University of Oxford in the UK before tion of the heavy chemical elements in the universe, exploration joining the UBC physics faculty. In June 1965, Craddock attended a of phenomena beyond the Standard Model of particle physics and meeting between representatives of UBC, the University of Victo- inquiry into the deepest secrets of the atomic nucleus. In addi- ria and Simon Fraser University, and wrote a summary of the pro- Site group, before the construction of the cyclotron. J Reginald Richardson tuning up the cyclotron to 500 MeV for tion, spin-polarised beta-emitting isotopes produced at TRIUMF ceedings: an agreement to develop a proposal for a tri-university the first time in 1974. make possible detailed probes for surface and interface studies meson facility based on the Richardson negative-hydrogen-ion in complex quantum materials or novel batteries, benefiting the cyclotron. Not three years later, in April 1968, the group received molecular- and materials-science communities. $19 million CDN in federal funding and construction began. TRIUMF is continuing to build on its expertise and capabilities Warren presided as TRIUMF’s first director, and many of the in isotope science by adding new rare-isotope production facili- accelerator’s build team came from his Van de Graaff graduate ties to supply the laboratory’s existing experimental stations. A students. The initial organisation consisted of a university faculty new project, ARIEL (the Advanced Rare Isotope Laboratory), will member directing the engineers and consultants responsible for each add two rare-isotope production stations driven by a new proton of the main components of the cyclotron: its ion source, radio-fre- beamline from the cyclotron and a new electron beamline from quency, magnet and vacuum systems. Joop Burgerjon, the engineer a new superconducting linear accelerator (designed and built in for the construction of the 50 MeV negative-hydrogen-ion cyclotron Canada). ARIEL will triple the output of the science programme at the University of Manitoba, which was itself a copy of the 50 MeV based on rare-isotope beams, creating new opportunities for inno- UCLA cyclotron, became the chief engineer for TRIUMF. vation and allowing the lab to branch off into promising new areas, Ewart Blackmore (one of this article’s authors) was one of War- Building the cyclotron. TRIUMF’s control room today. even outside of subatomic physics, materials science and nuclear ren’s graduate students who was brought back to work on the astrophysics. Although ARIEL’s completion date is set for 2023, accelerator design and construction. In 1968, while working as a first five years of commissioning and operations. He recalls that it The loss of KAON forced an existential crisis on TRIUMF, the facility’s multi-stage installation will allow the TRIUMF com- postdoctoral fellow at what is now the Rutherford Appleton Labora- was a remarkable experience to witness the moment first beam was and the laboratory responded in two parallel directions. Firstly, munity to begin scientific operations as early as 2019. tory, in the UK, Blackmore and another postdoctoral fellow, David achieved from the cyclotron. “At the start of it all, most of us had TRIUMF expanded Canada’s contributions to international phys- Axen (also a former UBC graduate student) received a call to coor- little understanding of cyclotrons and related technologies, but we ics collaborations. During the decade-long campaign to design An innovation lab dinate an experiment to measure the dissociation rate of negative had the valuable experience we had gained as graduate students.” KAON, TRIUMF had developed an impressive array of scientific TRIUMF’s history is defined not only by a drive to push the fron- hydrogen ions in a magnetic field. This is an important parameter and engineering talent and capabilities in the design of accelerators, tiers of science and discovery, but also those of innovation. The for setting the maximum magnetic field of the cyclotron. The meas- International physics hub production targets and detectors. This enabled the Canadian phys- flexibility of the iconic cyclotron at the heart of TRIUMF’s scien- urement used the proton linear accelerator at the Rutherford labora- The story of TRIUMF quickly developed, the lab reinventing itself ics community – supported by TRIUMF – to contribute to CERN’s tific programme has allowed the lab to venture into areas that few tory and resulted in a higher dissociation rate than expected from time and again to keep up with the fast pace at which the field was Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and join the ATLAS collaboration, could have imagined at the time of its original proposal. Standing earlier experiments, increasing the size of the cyclotron by 4%. evolving. By the early 1980s, TRIUMF was a well-established building components such as the warm twin-aperture quadrupoles on the shoulders of its founders, TRIUMF’s community now turns Upon his return to Vancouver, Blackmore shouldered the accelerator laboratory that operated the world’s largest cyclotron. for the LHC and the hadronic endcap calorimeter for ATLAS. This to the next half-century and beyond, and asks: how can TRIUMF responsibility for the cyclotron’s injection, beam diagnostics and In those days, TRIUMF utilised proton and neutron beams to drive positioned TRIUMF as Canada’s gateway to international suba- increase its impact on our everyday lives? extraction systems. All of these components and more were put a powerful research programme in nucleon–nucleon/nucleus inter- tomic physics and paved the way for Canada’s contributions to other While fundamental research remains core to TRIUMF’s mis- to the test with a full-scale model of the cyclotron’s centre core, action studies, muon beams for muon-spin-rotation experiments major physics collaborations like T2K in Japan. sion, the laboratory has long appreciated the necessity and oppor- which achieved first beam in 1972. Finally, despite a six-month in material sciences, pion beams for nuclear-structure studies, and The laboratory’s second response to the loss of KAON was the tunity for translating its technologies to the benefit of society. delay to reshape the magnetic field produced by the 4000 tonne meson beams for precision electroweak experiments. development at TRIUMF of a new scientific programme cen- TRIUMF Innovations, the lab’s commercialisation arm, actively magnet, the TRIUMF team of about 160 physicists, engineers and However, as the field advanced, new discoveries in meson sci- tred on rare isotopes. By the 1980s, the field of rare isotopes had targets and develops new opportunities for collaboration and com- technical staff coaxed a beam of protons from the cyclotron on ence were changing the landscape. TRIUMF responded by propos- become of burgeoning interest, opening new avenues of research pany creation surrounding the physics-based technologies that 15 December 1974. TRIUMF’s scientific programme began the ing an even-larger accelerator system, the 30 GeV KAON (Kaons, for TRIUMF into nuclear astrophysics, fundamental nuclear phys- emerge from the TRIUMF network. following year with an initial Antiprotons, Other hadrons and Neutrinos) complex. When fully ics and low-energy precision probes of subatomic symmetries. Perhaps the most long-standing of these collaborations is TRI- complement of experimental complete, KAON would have allowed cutting-edge high-energy- TRIUMF had recognised the worldwide shortage of isotope pro- UMF’s more than 30-year partnership with the global health-science ARIEL will triple the beamlines: proton, neutron, physics experiments at the intensity frontier. It was a bold proposal duction facilities and understood the role it could play in rectify- company Nordion. A team of TRIUMF scientists, engineers and pion and muon. In the end, the that garnered substantial national and international interest but ing the situation. The lab already possessed expertise in beam and technicians works with Nordion to operate TRIUMF cyclotrons to output of the rare- project was on budget and very ultimately did not find enough political support to be funded. Nev- target physics, design and engineering — and, since its inception, produce commercial medical isotopes that are used in diagnosing isotope programme. near the original schedule. The ertheless, the concept itself was considered visionary, and the sci- a high-powered 520 MeV cyclotron that could act as a beam driver cancer and cardiac conditions. During the course of this partnership, machine reached its design ence that TRIUMF wanted to enact was taken up decades later in for producing exotic isotopes. more than 50 million patient doses of medical isotopes have been current of 100 µA in 1977, with modified forms at the J-PARC complex in Japan and the upcoming Rare-isotope beams at TRIUMF started during the KAON era produced at TRIUMF and delivered to patients around the world. Blackmore coordinating the FAIR facility in Germany (CERN Courier July/August 2017 p41). with the small TISOL (Test facility of Isotope Separation On- Another outcome of TRIUMF Innovations is ARTMS Products

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for which came while holidaying at his cottage on Galiano Island Line) project in 1987, which used an isotope-separation concept on the West Coast of British Columbia. In the years that followed, developed at CERN’s ISOLDE facility. Experience at TISOL gave all three of them would go on to become a director of TRIUMF. its proponents confidence that a much-larger-scale rare-isotope- At the time, the world was ready to dig deeper into nuclear struc- beams facility could be built at TRIUMF. And so the Isotope Sepa- ture and explore other hadronic mysteries using powerful meson rator and Accelerator (ISAC) era was born at TRIUMF. Today, beams. This push for “meson factories” led to LAMPF in the US, SIN TRIUMF’s ISAC boasts the highest production power of any (now PSI) in Switzerland and, eventually, TRIUMF in Vancouver. ISOL-type facility and some of the highest rates of rare-isotope In 1964, a young physicist named Michael Craddock (who would production in the world. ISAC enables TRIUMF to produce iso- become a long-time CERN Courier contributor) completed his topes for a variety of research areas, including studies of the forma- PhD in nuclear physics at the University of Oxford in the UK before tion of the heavy chemical elements in the universe, exploration joining the UBC physics faculty. In June 1965, Craddock attended a of phenomena beyond the Standard Model of particle physics and meeting between representatives of UBC, the University of Victo- inquiry into the deepest secrets of the atomic nucleus. In addi- ria and Simon Fraser University, and wrote a summary of the pro- Site group, before the construction of the cyclotron. J Reginald Richardson tuning up the cyclotron to 500 MeV for tion, spin-polarised beta-emitting isotopes produced at TRIUMF ceedings: an agreement to develop a proposal for a tri-university the first time in 1974. make possible detailed probes for surface and interface studies meson facility based on the Richardson negative-hydrogen-ion in complex quantum materials or novel batteries, benefiting the cyclotron. Not three years later, in April 1968, the group received molecular- and materials-science communities. $19 million CDN in federal funding and construction began. TRIUMF is continuing to build on its expertise and capabilities Warren presided as TRIUMF’s first director, and many of the in isotope science by adding new rare-isotope production facili- accelerator’s build team came from his Van de Graaff graduate ties to supply the laboratory’s existing experimental stations. A students. The initial organisation consisted of a university faculty new project, ARIEL (the Advanced Rare Isotope Laboratory), will member directing the engineers and consultants responsible for each add two rare-isotope production stations driven by a new proton of the main components of the cyclotron: its ion source, radio-fre- beamline from the cyclotron and a new electron beamline from quency, magnet and vacuum systems. Joop Burgerjon, the engineer a new superconducting linear accelerator (designed and built in for the construction of the 50 MeV negative-hydrogen-ion cyclotron Canada). ARIEL will triple the output of the science programme at the University of Manitoba, which was itself a copy of the 50 MeV based on rare-isotope beams, creating new opportunities for inno- UCLA cyclotron, became the chief engineer for TRIUMF. vation and allowing the lab to branch off into promising new areas, Ewart Blackmore (one of this article’s authors) was one of War- Building the cyclotron. TRIUMF’s control room today. even outside of subatomic physics, materials science and nuclear ren’s graduate students who was brought back to work on the astrophysics. Although ARIEL’s completion date is set for 2023, accelerator design and construction. In 1968, while working as a first five years of commissioning and operations. He recalls that it The loss of KAON forced an existential crisis on TRIUMF, the facility’s multi-stage installation will allow the TRIUMF com- postdoctoral fellow at what is now the Rutherford Appleton Labora- was a remarkable experience to witness the moment first beam was and the laboratory responded in two parallel directions. Firstly, munity to begin scientific operations as early as 2019. tory, in the UK, Blackmore and another postdoctoral fellow, David achieved from the cyclotron. “At the start of it all, most of us had TRIUMF expanded Canada’s contributions to international phys- Axen (also a former UBC graduate student) received a call to coor- little understanding of cyclotrons and related technologies, but we ics collaborations. During the decade-long campaign to design An innovation lab dinate an experiment to measure the dissociation rate of negative had the valuable experience we had gained as graduate students.” KAON, TRIUMF had developed an impressive array of scientific TRIUMF’s history is defined not only by a drive to push the fron- hydrogen ions in a magnetic field. This is an important parameter and engineering talent and capabilities in the design of accelerators, tiers of science and discovery, but also those of innovation. The for setting the maximum magnetic field of the cyclotron. The meas- International physics hub production targets and detectors. This enabled the Canadian phys- flexibility of the iconic cyclotron at the heart of TRIUMF’s scien- urement used the proton linear accelerator at the Rutherford labora- The story of TRIUMF quickly developed, the lab reinventing itself ics community – supported by TRIUMF – to contribute to CERN’s tific programme has allowed the lab to venture into areas that few tory and resulted in a higher dissociation rate than expected from time and again to keep up with the fast pace at which the field was Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and join the ATLAS collaboration, could have imagined at the time of its original proposal. Standing earlier experiments, increasing the size of the cyclotron by 4%. evolving. By the early 1980s, TRIUMF was a well-established building components such as the warm twin-aperture quadrupoles on the shoulders of its founders, TRIUMF’s community now turns Upon his return to Vancouver, Blackmore shouldered the accelerator laboratory that operated the world’s largest cyclotron. for the LHC and the hadronic endcap calorimeter for ATLAS. This to the next half-century and beyond, and asks: how can TRIUMF responsibility for the cyclotron’s injection, beam diagnostics and In those days, TRIUMF utilised proton and neutron beams to drive positioned TRIUMF as Canada’s gateway to international suba- increase its impact on our everyday lives? extraction systems. All of these components and more were put a powerful research programme in nucleon–nucleon/nucleus inter- tomic physics and paved the way for Canada’s contributions to other While fundamental research remains core to TRIUMF’s mis- to the test with a full-scale model of the cyclotron’s centre core, action studies, muon beams for muon-spin-rotation experiments major physics collaborations like T2K in Japan. sion, the laboratory has long appreciated the necessity and oppor- which achieved first beam in 1972. Finally, despite a six-month in material sciences, pion beams for nuclear-structure studies, and The laboratory’s second response to the loss of KAON was the tunity for translating its technologies to the benefit of society. delay to reshape the magnetic field produced by the 4000 tonne meson beams for precision electroweak experiments. development at TRIUMF of a new scientific programme cen- TRIUMF Innovations, the lab’s commercialisation arm, actively magnet, the TRIUMF team of about 160 physicists, engineers and However, as the field advanced, new discoveries in meson sci- tred on rare isotopes. By the 1980s, the field of rare isotopes had targets and develops new opportunities for collaboration and com- technical staff coaxed a beam of protons from the cyclotron on ence were changing the landscape. TRIUMF responded by propos- become of burgeoning interest, opening new avenues of research pany creation surrounding the physics-based technologies that 15 December 1974. TRIUMF’s scientific programme began the ing an even-larger accelerator system, the 30 GeV KAON (Kaons, for TRIUMF into nuclear astrophysics, fundamental nuclear phys- emerge from the TRIUMF network. following year with an initial Antiprotons, Other hadrons and Neutrinos) complex. When fully ics and low-energy precision probes of subatomic symmetries. Perhaps the most long-standing of these collaborations is TRI- complement of experimental complete, KAON would have allowed cutting-edge high-energy- TRIUMF had recognised the worldwide shortage of isotope pro- UMF’s more than 30-year partnership with the global health-science ARIEL will triple the beamlines: proton, neutron, physics experiments at the intensity frontier. It was a bold proposal duction facilities and understood the role it could play in rectify- company Nordion. A team of TRIUMF scientists, engineers and pion and muon. In the end, the that garnered substantial national and international interest but ing the situation. The lab already possessed expertise in beam and technicians works with Nordion to operate TRIUMF cyclotrons to output of the rare- project was on budget and very ultimately did not find enough political support to be funded. Nev- target physics, design and engineering — and, since its inception, produce commercial medical isotopes that are used in diagnosing isotope programme. near the original schedule. The ertheless, the concept itself was considered visionary, and the sci- a high-powered 520 MeV cyclotron that could act as a beam driver cancer and cardiac conditions. During the course of this partnership, machine reached its design ence that TRIUMF wanted to enact was taken up decades later in for producing exotic isotopes. more than 50 million patient doses of medical isotopes have been current of 100 µA in 1977, with modified forms at the J-PARC complex in Japan and the upcoming Rare-isotope beams at TRIUMF started during the KAON era produced at TRIUMF and delivered to patients around the world. Blackmore coordinating the FAIR facility in Germany (CERN Courier July/August 2017 p41). with the small TISOL (Test facility of Isotope Separation On- Another outcome of TRIUMF Innovations is ARTMS Products

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Drawing on data-science CuNi resistive matrix wires SC Magnetic Energy Storage acumen developed through the ATLAS collaboration, TRIUMF is Fine diameter SC Wires Medical Therapeutic Devices Inc, which produces cyclotron-target technology enabling cleaner building industry partnerships that train academic researchers to Aluminum clad wire Superconducting Magnets and Coils and greener manufacturing of medical isotopes within local hos- use their data-science skills in the private sector and connect them Wire-in-Channel Crystal Growth Magnets pitals. ARTMS has already secured venture-capital funding and with new research and career opportunities. Innovative composite wires Scientific Projects multiple successful installations are under way around the world. Its It is clear that TRIUMF’s sustained focus on commercialisation technology for producing the most commonly used medical isotope, and collaboration will ensure that the lab continues to bring the technetium-99, will help stabilise the global isotope supply chain in benefits of accelerator-based science into society and to pursue “We deliver superconductivity!” the wake of the shutdown of the Chalk River reactor facility. world-leading science with impact. TRIUMF Innovations will play a key role in fostering industry Contact us at [email protected] The quest continues relationships enabled by the future Institute for Advanced Medical www.SUPERCON-WIRE.com Isotopes (IAMI), a critical piece of infrastructure that will advance Fifty years in, TRIUMF’s narrative is a continuous work in pro- nuclear medicine in Canada. Supported by TRIUMF’s life sci- gress, a story unfolding beneath the mossy boughs of the same ences division, IAMI will provide infrastructure and expertise fir and alder trees that looked down on the first shovel strike, the ad.indd 1 28/03/2012 09:43 towards developing new diagnostics and radiotherapies. IAMI first sheet of concrete, the first summer barbecue. In the coming will also provide industry partners with facilities to study and test years, the lab will continue to welcome fresh faces, to upgrade and Puron new isotopes and radiopharmaceuticals that hold great promise for add new facilities, to broach new frontiers, and to confront new ALLIED METALS CORPORATION improving the health of patients in Canada and around the world. challenges. 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Son cyclotron de 520 MeV, présent depuis les aerospace technologies to improving the efficacy and safety of origines, reste au cœur des activités du laboratoire, qui a permis mining exploration using muon detectors to help geologists esti- le développement d’une communauté scientifique diverse et mate the size and location of ore deposits. multidisciplinaire. Aujourd’hui, 17 universités participent à TRIUMF, In the coming years, TRIUMF Innovations will continue to constituant un réseau dynamique et mondial de collaborateurs, dont advance commercialisation both within TRIUMF and through beaucoup travaillent avec des expériences du CERN. www.exirbroadcasting.com TRIUMF’s networks. 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Drawing on data-science CuNi resistive matrix wires SC Magnetic Energy Storage acumen developed through the ATLAS collaboration, TRIUMF is Fine diameter SC Wires Medical Therapeutic Devices Inc, which produces cyclotron-target technology enabling cleaner building industry partnerships that train academic researchers to Aluminum clad wire Superconducting Magnets and Coils and greener manufacturing of medical isotopes within local hos- use their data-science skills in the private sector and connect them Wire-in-Channel Crystal Growth Magnets pitals. ARTMS has already secured venture-capital funding and with new research and career opportunities. Innovative composite wires Scientific Projects multiple successful installations are under way around the world. Its It is clear that TRIUMF’s sustained focus on commercialisation technology for producing the most commonly used medical isotope, and collaboration will ensure that the lab continues to bring the technetium-99, will help stabilise the global isotope supply chain in benefits of accelerator-based science into society and to pursue “We deliver superconductivity!” the wake of the shutdown of the Chalk River reactor facility. world-leading science with impact. TRIUMF Innovations will play a key role in fostering industry Contact us at [email protected] The quest continues relationships enabled by the future Institute for Advanced Medical www.SUPERCON-WIRE.com Isotopes (IAMI), a critical piece of infrastructure that will advance Fifty years in, TRIUMF’s narrative is a continuous work in pro- nuclear medicine in Canada. Supported by TRIUMF’s life sci- gress, a story unfolding beneath the mossy boughs of the same ences division, IAMI will provide infrastructure and expertise fir and alder trees that looked down on the first shovel strike, the ad.indd 1 28/03/2012 09:43 towards developing new diagnostics and radiotherapies. IAMI first sheet of concrete, the first summer barbecue. In the coming will also provide industry partners with facilities to study and test years, the lab will continue to welcome fresh faces, to upgrade and Puron new isotopes and radiopharmaceuticals that hold great promise for add new facilities, to broach new frontiers, and to confront new ALLIED METALS CORPORATION improving the health of patients in Canada and around the world. challenges. 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The TRIUMF cyclotron is unmatched Résumé CUSTOMISED RF COMPONENTS in 225Ac production capacity, and the laboratory is working with Les succès de TRIUMF researchers and industry partners to bring this production online and to speed up the development of new therapies with the poten- Fondé il y a 50 ans pour répondre à des besoins de recherche tial to offer new hope to patients with cancers that are currently dépassant les possibilités d’une seule université, TRIUMF, le deemed incurable. plus important des laboratoires d’accélérateurs au Canada, Beyond these developments, TRIUMF Innovations manages a continue à produire des découvertes dans les domaines de la portfolio of TRIUMF products and services that range from pro- physique fondamentale, de la médecine nucléaire et de la science viding irradiation services for stress-testing communications and des matériaux. 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A ppointments New leader at Fermilab’s next accelerator

On 1 March, accelerator physicist Lia is the first particle accelerator to be built in Merminga was appointed project director FNAL the US with significant contributions from for Fermilab’s PIP II (Proton Improvement international partners. Merminga, previously Plan II) and its new superconducting linear associate laboratory director for accelerators accelerator. Along with improvements to at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Fermilab’s Main Injector and Recycler succeeds Fermilab’s Stephen Holmes. accelerators, PIP II will provide She has more than 25 years’ experience high-intensity proton beams for future in accelerator and superconducting experiments including the flagship radio-frequency technology, and served as High Frequency Innovation Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility and the director of the Center for Advanced Studies Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. of Accelerators at Jefferson Lab and as Our Pulse Modulator Range includes long-pulse (›1 ms), short-pulse (‹4 µs) and X-band solutions. The new 800 MeV machine will double the Lia Merminga will lead the superconducting head of the accelerator division at Canada’s energy of the existing linac at Fermilab and linac PIP II, serving neutrino experiments. TRIUMF laboratory. Challenge us to meet your challenges! Change of chairs for antimatter community M Brice/CERN

Experimentalists Stefan Ulmer of RIKEN beam time. The AD is a unique global Transmission Antenna Scientifi c Green [email protected] Science MedTech Industry Broadcast and Chloé Malbrunot of CERN have been research facility hosting the AEgIS, Systems Systems Applications Technologies elected chairperson and deputy chairperson, ALPHA, ASACUSA, ATRAP, BASE and respectively, of the Antiproton Decelerator GBAR experiments. Ulmer is founder and (AD) user community. The roles involve spokesperson of the BASE collaboration, representing the interests of the antimatter while Malbrunot is involved with ASACUSA community to CERN management, requiring and AEgIS. For the past 17 years the AD user regular contact with the spokespersons of community has been represented by Walter Left to right: Walter Oelert, Chloé Malbrunot, RF Science approved AD experiments and organising Oelert and, since 2012, Horst Breuker. Stefan Ulmer and Horst Breuker. A w A r d s The work of Fogli, Lisi and the Pontecorvo award Bari neutrino group on the theory and phenomenology of neutrino and astroparticle to Fogli and Lisi physics has led to a detailed understanding of oscillation searches with solar, atmospheric, The 2017 Bruno Pontecorvo Prize, which accelerator and reactor neutrinos, and of their is given by the Joint Institute for Nuclear interplay with non-oscillatory searches. The Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia, has been two laureates will report on their achievements awarded to Gianluigi Fogli and Eligio Lisi at an awards ceremony at the next session of of the University of Bari and INFN in Italy Gianluigi Fogli (left) and Eligio Lisi. the JINR council on 20–21 September. The for their pioneering contributions to the Pontecorvo Prize was established in 1995 development of the global analysis of neutrino an international jury’s recommendations by to commemorate Bruno Pontecorvo, once oscillation data from different experiments. the JINR scientific council at its 123rd session Enrico Fermi’s collaborator and often deemed The announcement followed the approval of on 22–23 February. the father of neutrino physics.

Radio Frequency knowledge on nuclei at the extremes of for Scientific Applications Gold medal for existence in opposite ends of the nuclear

Scientific and special applications are a strategic chart. Oganessian has made fundamental

company business unit. extreme nuclei Puzynina/JINRE contributions to the study of superheavy

Products include low and high power systems using elements, also acknowledged in 2016 when radio frequency for advanced physics such as The 2017 Lomonosov Gold Medal, the element 118 was named Oganesson (Og), scientific applications, biomedicine and aero-spatial developments, being considered special highest accolade of the Russian Academy while Jonson, who has also played key roles applications. of Sciences, has been awarded to Yuri in CERN’s ISOLDE facility, has focused Oganessian of the Joint Institute for Nuclear on the nuclear structure and stability at

Itelco RADIO & TV Research (JINR) in Russia and Björn Jonson the boundaries of the nuclear chart for the BROADCAST EQUIPMENT AND SOLUTIONS WORLDWIDE of Chalmers University of Technology Björn Jonson (left) and Yuri Oganessian have lightest elements. The award ceremony took itelco.it in Sweden. The pair has extended our extended the boundaries of the nuclear chart. place in Moscow on 30 March.

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