1994-95 Annual Financial & Administrative Report E787 ('crcukoY CountPr \ BOO~I<'Y/e 1\+ , . n(~HUl \ . \ B(•alll ('bcuuhers CC'ulml Ih·ifl f'haml><•r H<'c.un Couutrrs ll<••lln <IE/dx ('ouul<'r St'iulillat ing FilH~I' Target :tum Pur<' (',I End Cap and C'oiiHr Pllotou \ f'to rounlrrs including summaries of Pure Research Activities and Practical Applications TRIUMF is Canada's national meson facility, managed Consortium Members Associate Members as a joint venture by a consortium of · Canadian University of Alberta University of Manitoba universities. It is operated under a contribution from University of Victoria Universite de Montreal Simon Fraser University University of Regina the National Research Council of Canada. University of British Columbia University of Toronto Our World-Wide Web Home Page: http:/ /www.triumf.ca/ 4004 Wesbrook Mall Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T2A3 Phone: (604) 222-1047 Telex: 04-508503 FAX: (604) 222-1074 Annual Financial & Contents Administrative Board of Management 2 Report Director's Report 3 Pure Research 4-6 1994-95 Theoretical Programme 7 Applied Programmes 8 Cover Photo: Part of the complex detector for Experiment 787 at Brookhaven-see the "Pure Facilities 9 Research" section on page 4. Ventures Office 10-11 The 1994-95 Financial & Administrative Organization Chart 12 Annual Report is prepared by the TRIUMF Information Office Financial Review 13 Editor: Michael La Brooy [email protected] 604 222-7354 Financial Statements 14-19 Users' Group Members 20-23 We acknowledge the contributions of the following toward the prepar­ ation of presentations in this annual report: E. Blackmore, D. Bryman, HERMES Experiment 24 P. Gardner, P. Jackson, J. Ng, T. Pickles, M. Vetterli 1 University of British Columbia Board of Management Dr. D.P. Measday March 1995 Department of Physics Dr. R.C. Miller, Jr. Vice-President, Research University of Alberta Dr. D. J. Doyle President, Doyletech Corporation Dr. W.A. Bridger Simon Fraser University Associate Vice-President, Research Dr. B.P. Clayman Vice-President, Research Dr. E.W. Brooker University of Victoria Chairman, EBA Engineering Dr. C. H·~· Jones Consultants Ltd. Dean, Faculty of Science Dr. J.T. Weaver Dr. W.C. Olsen Dean of Science Dr. R. Korteling Nuclear Research Centre Department of Chemistry Ms. G. Gabel President, The Gabel Group Dr. A. McAuley Associate Vice-President, Research Nonvoting Members Dr. A. Astbury-Director, TRlUMF Dr. J.-M. Poutissou-Associate Director, TRlUMF Mr. C.W. Bordeaux (Secretary, Finance Committee) Chief Financial Officer, TRlUMF Ms. P. Tode-Woods (Secretary, Personnel Committee) Associate Members, Observers Chief Personnel Officer, TRlUMF University of Manitoba Mr. M. La Brooy (Board Secretary) Head, Information Office, TRlUMF Dr. T.P. Hogan Vice-President, Research & External Programs Universite de Montreal National Research Council of Canada Dr. M. St. Jacques Vice-recteur a la recherche & Dr. J.J. Child planification Research Program Office University of Regina Prof. D.G. Stairs Department of Physics Dr. K. Denford McGill University Dean of Science University of Toronto Dr. J.P. Keffer Vice-President, Research & International Relations 2 Director's Report A little over a year has passed since the negative decision enhanced, and new technologies spawned is the only way of on the KAON proposal-by the Federal Government. In May assuring a rosy future. 1994 the management of TRIUMF was requested to present a If we are successful in our quest for funding it is already five-year plan for the future of the laboratory. This exercise clear that the management of TRIUMF will find itself in the was completed by June and presented verbally in Ottawa in uncomfortable position of trying to satisfy these dual require­ July to an assembly of senior bureaucrats and deputy minis­ ments. Whether this is possible, only time will tell, and one ters. The proposal was well received; however March 1995 has has a great deal of sympathy with the views expressed by the passed with no clear decision on the laboratory's future, Duke-of Wellington in the following letter attributed to him, which hangs, rather too delicately for comfort, in the balance. and sent by him to the British Foreign Office in 1812 during So far, the exercise of trying to assure a bright scientific the Napoleonic wars in Europe. future has proved to be both educational and confusing. TRIUMF, since its creation in the late 1960s, has pursued a ba­ "Gentlemen: sic research programme in subatomic physics. Over the years Whilst marching to Portugal to a position which commands the programme has come to embrace medical treatment, mate­ the approach to Madrid and the French forces, my officers have been rials research and work in the life sciences, but the central, diligently complying with your requests which have been sent by I ! driving force has been curiosity-driven experimentation into H.M. ship from London to Lisbon and then by dispatch rider to our i what are the basic building blocks of matter, and what are the headquarters. I rules governing the forces of nature which act between these We have enumerated our saddles, bridles, tents and tent poles, constituents. The success has been gauged internationally and and all manner of sundry items for which His Majesty's Govern­ I support for the science has been determined by peer review of ment holds me accountable. I have dispatched reports on the charac­ I I its excellence. ter, wit and spleen of every officer. Each item and every farthing has ·I In order to perform this science TRIUMF staff must em­ been accounted for, with two regrettable exceptions for which I beg I ploy technology which is state-of-the-art. This technology has your indulgence. I ! to be invented or taken from wherever it can be found in the Unfortunately the sum of one.shilling and ninepence remains world. The process has produced in the TRIUMF scientists unaccounted for in one infantry battalion's petty cash and there has and engineers a pool of talent and knowledge which is prob­ been a hideous confusion as to the number of jars of raspberry jam ably unique in Canada. It represents a resource which can issued to one cavalry regiment during a sandstorm in western have immeasurable value to the so-called "high tech" indus­ Spain. This reprehensive carelessness may be related to the pressure tries, and in an effort to realize some of this capital, TRIUMF of circumstance since we are at war with France; a fact which may runs an office for technology transfer. However, we should come as a bit of a surprise to you gentlemen in Whitehall. never lose sight of the fact that the technological resource ex­ This brings me to my present purpose, which is to request elu­ ists only because of the demands of the basic science. Why cidation of my instructions from His Majesty's Government, so that then should government give TRIUMF a future? Herein lies I may better understand why I am dragging an army over these bar­ the confusion. For some, excellence in basic science reigns su­ ren plains. I construe that perforce it must be one of two alternative preme. After all, every piece of modern technology was once a duties, as given below. I shall pursue either one with the best of my piece of curiosity-driven research; to say nothing of the vital ability but I cannot do both: training of the young people involved, a role traditionally ful­ 1. To train an army of uniformed British clerks in Spain for the filled by basic research. Others insist that in these days of benefit of the accountant and copy boys in London or, straitened finances, priorities must shift. The overwhelming perchance, priority for TRIUMF is the transfer of its technology; and the 2. To see to it that the forces of Napoleon are driven out of Spain." promise of a detailed accounting of jobs created, companies Alan Astbury 3 Pure Research Particle Physics Refinement Through Rarities Particle physics is in one of physicists are directing much of muons at TRIUMF and else­ the most interesting and per­ their current experimental effort where have been very important plexing phases ever encountered to addressing questions of this in establishing the validity of in modern science. On the one sort, in attempts to probe the SM many aspects of the SM and in hand we know of four basic in ever greater detail, and to confronting the predictions of al­ forces in nature, and we have search for new directions. ternative theories. However, the "standard model" of sub­ when hadrons, like pions and atomic physics (SM), providing Rare Decays kaons, are involved (hadrons are a consistent theoretical picture particles that can also interact of how nature's basic building Many elementary particles, through the strong force, and are blocks interact with each other including muons, pions and made up of quarks and/ or anti­ via the weak, the electromagnetic kaons, decay into light particles quarks), the range of possibili­ and the strong forces. (Gravity is (e.g. electrons, neutrinos) ties for testing hypotheses is en­ not yet included in the SM.) The through the action of the weak riched but reliable calculations building blocks are the quarks­ force. Theory predicts that some are difficult, if not impossible. up and down (u, d), charm and of these (which we call "rare de­ Weak and electromagnetic pro­ strange (c, s), and top and bottom cays") will occur at extremely cesses can generally be comput­ (t, b); and the leptons (the nega­ low rates. Observing them could ed to high accuracy (using "per­ tively charged electron, muon, lead to a greater level of under­ turbation theory"), but the and tau particle-referred to as standing of the SM, or even to strong interaction, particularly at e-, !!-,,;--and their related neu­ entirely unexpected, new low energy, requires a different trinos (ve, v~ and v"), which are insights.