The workshop sessions will be held just up the road from TRIUMF,
on the University of British Columbia
(UBC) campus. The precise location of these lecture rooms will
be known by January 1998.
The host laboratory for this workshop is TRIUMF, Canada's National Meson
Laboratory, located in beautiful Vancouver,
British Columbia. Construction began under a joint agreement
between the 3 British Columbia universities, the University of Victoria,
the University of British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University. Hence the
original name TRIUMF which at the time stood for "TRI-University Meson Facility". During the construction phase,
the University of Alberta joined the group. TRIUMF is a 520-MeV high-intensity (150-microamp)
continuous-wave proton accelerator utilizing H-acceleration and extraction by electron stripping. It is possible to extract several
lower-energy beams of considerable current into different beamlines simultaneous with the main high-energy beam. Total extracted
current routinely exceeds 225 microamps. The main TRIUMF cyclotron can also produce high-intensity polarized proton
beams of variable energy, very useful for investigating fine resonances in the nucleus. TRIUMF's
research programme includes investigation of the structure of matter
utilizing PI mesons and muons. The muon-spin-rotation facility
at TRIUMF is popular in researching the properties of superconductors.
TRIUMF's Applied Programme includes radioisotope production by small
cyclotrons for medical applications around the world, including our own PET
(Positron Emission Tomography) scanner at UBC,
operated for the UBC-TRIUMF PET PROGRAMME)
and for other hospitals around the world. A recent addition was the Proton Therapy center
for treatment of cancerous eye tumors using a collimated low-energy proton beam. One of the TRIUMF spin-offs, in co-operation with local industry,
is the production of compact low-cost high-output medical cyclotrons for use in radio-isotope production
right in other hospitals around the world. Including the main 520-Mev cyclotron, and 3 low-energy medical cyclotrons, there are 4 cyclotrons on the
TRIUMF site, not including any cyclotrons under construction. Construction of the main 520-MeV cyclotron began in 1969, and the
first beam was in December of 1974.
There will be a tour of the TRIUMF Laboratory planned for WAO'98.
More information about TRIUMF:
Please also try our TRIUMF Cybertour,
and visit our TRIUMF Home Page.
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