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IMAGE: The facade of the Advanced Rare Isotope Laboratory (ARIEL) on TRIUMF s campus in Vancouver, B.C., Canada view more
Credit: Stu Shepherd
Scientists and engineers at TRIUMF, Canada s particle accelerator centre, announced a major milestone for TRIUMF s Advanced Rare Isotope Laboratory (ARIEL), maneuvering for the first time an isotope beam through the ARIEL-based CANREB facility and on to an experiment.
The achievement marks a watershed moment for the laboratory s future-facing science program, which leverages TRIUMF s unique accelerator infrastructure to drive impact from research on short-lived rare isotopes. With this delivery of beam through CANREB, we have entered the first phase of ARIEL s science output, said Reiner Kruecken, TRIUMF Deputy Director, Research. As a globally unique multi-user isotope research facility, ARIEL will bring critical advances in our understanding of rare isotopes, which we can use to investigate the nature of matter,