TRIUMF: Guide for experimenters

The purpose of this site is to provide all the necessary information to allow a user to propose, plan, and run an experiment at TRIUMF. It is managed by the Beam Delivery group within the Accelerator Division and is meant to complement the information about TRIUMF's research program available on the lab's web site.

This wiki is a work in progress and will be updated frequently. Please forward all comments, queries, and suggestions to Colin Morton.

Beam Delivery at TRIUMF

• Beam Delivery Report — Current conditions and forecast

• Scorecard (ISAC experiments only)

• Downtime summaries

• Beam Delivery on TRIUMF's documents server (TRIUMF Secure Access ID required)
  • ISAC beam delivery calendars
  • Experiments (Beam Delivery run plans, technical overviews, summaries, etc.)
  • Technical information

Guide for experimenters

How to ...

• Mount an experiment at TRIUMF
  • Stage 1: Physics approval
  • Stage 2: Beam allocation
• Propose an experiment
• Request beam time
• Run an experiment

Facility information

• Cyclotron
  • Cyclotron operations
  • Quick facts
• ISAC (Isotope Separator and ACcelerator)
  • Beam intensities
  • About the accelerators
  • Accelerator specifications
• Tuning time estimates

TRIUMF contacts

• Science Division
  • Admin Computing
• Support groups
  • Detectors
  • Data acquisition and analysis
  • General support
• Meson Hall
  • Beamline, channel and facility coordinators
• ISAC
  • ISAC low-energy experimental facilities
  • ISAC-I (accelerated) experimental facilities
  • ISAC-II experimental facilities

Forms

Mounting an experiment

• Proposals and scheduling:
  • Research proposal and progress report forms
  • Requests for beam time

• Access to resources:
  • Request for Engineering Assistance
  • Engineering Change Order
  • Request For Technical Support
  • Request For Services — mechanical
  • Request For Services — electrical
    • Spreadsheet for specifying electrical requirements

• Run planning:
  • Beam Properties Request form (PDF, 247 KB)
  • ISAC Beam Properties Request form (PDF, 807 KB)

General purpose

• TRIUMF Administration - Forms and Documents Repository

Links

• Request for a Secure Access ID

• TRIUMF Safety homepage

• Safety Approval of Experiments at TRIUMF

• TRIUMF Standard Operating Procedures (TSOP) (TRIUMF Secure Access ID required)

• TRIUMF Experiments database

• Beam Schedule

• Users/Visitors Office

• TRIUMF directory