Grant: Subatomic Physics Envelope - Major Resources Support Program

This Major Resources Support application is for one skilled, experienced technician to assist fast computer control, high voltage, electromechanical devices, cryogenics, and vacuum systems for end experiments with the unique TRIUMF/ISAC radioactive beam facility, and for biomedical radioactive ion source work. This grant would enable better access to technical assistance to help a wide variety of existing and potential users of ISAC. The ISAC experiments use the recoil mass separator DRAGON, Annular Chamber of Tracking and ID of Charged Particles TACTIC, solid-state detector array TUDA, neutral atom trap TRINAT, a general purpose station, collinear laser spectroscopy. The experiments are performed by the co-applicants and a number of experimenters outside of TRIUMF, primarily from Canada, the U.K., the U.S.A., and Israel. The experiments address a wide variety of science including reaction cross-sections, nuclear properties, lifetimes, and asymptotic normalization coefficients needed for nuclear astrophysics; structure of exotic nuclei investigated by reactions and laser spectroscopy; searches for new interactions and particles in beta decay; mass separation of prospective biomedical isotopes for suitability for targeting cancer cells. The technician envisioned (Peter Machule) provides a unique resource combining skills that enable efficient completion of experiments and utilization of the ISAC beam. This technician has been supported in the past by pieces of individual project grants. Placing this in the MRS program would provide better access to the technician by a wider variety of experimenters, greater stability of support, and greater accountability of that support.