TRIUMF

TRIUMF, for Tri-University Meson Facility, is a particle accelerator laboratory located on the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver, BC. Its construction was funded by three local universities —Simon Fraser University, the University of Victoria, and the University of British Columbia. In operation since 1974, the main accelerator is currently the world's largest cyclotron, and at 500 MeV (million electronvolts), it produces one of the world's most intense proton beams. The facility is presently run by a consortium of Canadian agencies and universities which include the National Research Council of Canada, the University of Alberta, Carleton University, and the University of Toronto in addition to the three founding institutions.

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Asteroid 14959 TRIUMF is named in honour of the laboratory.

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Meson: In particle physics, a meson is a strongly interacting boson, that is, it is a hadron with integral spin. In the Standard Model, mesons are composite (non-elementary) particles composed of an even number of quarks and antiquarks. Until the discovery of the tetraquark, all known mesons were believed ...

Particle accelerator: A particle accelerator is a device that uses electric and/or magnetic fields to propel electrically charged particles to high speeds....

University of British Columbia: The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university with its main campus located at Point Grey, in the University Endowment Lands, a suburb directly adjoining Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and another smaller campus known as UBC Okanagan located in Kelowna, British Columbia. It al...