Grant: Subatomic Physics Envelope - Major Resources Support Program

This Major Resources Support (MRS) grant request is for the continuation of salary support for an electronics specialist, based at the University of Winnipeg, who provides essential development work for high priority subatomic physics projects led by researchers across Canada. The electronics specialist has been a key resource for projects since 2019.  Based in Winnipeg, the specialist has access to a local maker facility called North Forge, where fabrication equipment is available. This electronics specialist is available for research programs across Canada, and has been primarily used by the TUCAN experiment at TRIUMF, and the Canadian collaborators on the Hyper-Kamiokande experiment. The management of the Winnipeg MRS resource is coordinated with MRS resources in subatomic physics at Carleton University and the University of Victoria.  Recently, we have formed a national infrastructure group that also includes resources at the Universities of Alberta and Montreal.  The new group will be coordinated by a Pan-canadian coordination Board, endorsed by the Institute of Particle Physics (IPP) and the Canadian Institute of Nuclear Physics (CINP).