PROPOSED MANDATE, 2005-2010

• The TRIUMF laboratory will operate as Canada's national laboratory for sub-atomic science.

• The laboratory will provide and further develop world-leading facilities for experimental programs in nuclear physics, nuclear astrophysics, particle physics, material science, life sciences, and medical sciences. These facilities will exploit the high power cyclotron operated by the laboratory and the new accelerator complex developed for ISAC. The facilities will provide Canadian scientists with opportunities to develop national and international programs.

  • The facilities will exploit in particular intense radioactive beams and intense muon and pion beams, the driver for these beams being the 500 MeV cyclotron. In particular, there should be world-leading facilities to exploit the intense muon beams for material science.

• The laboratory will continue to act as Canada's main connection with CERN by developing and operating a data analysis center on behalf of the ATLAS-Canada community working at the CERN-LHC accelerator.

• Provide infrastructure support to the whole Canadian sub-atomic scientific program as Canada's primary center for sub-atomic science.

• Maximize the economic benefits of the Federal Government's investment in TRIUMF to Canadian companies through pro-active technology transfer activities, contracts and procurement policies.