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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear TRIUMF Users,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">As you may already be aware, the RF system of
TRIUMF’s main cyclotron has sustained substantial damage over the
long weekend.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We know how much our community relies on beam
delivery and recognize that this incident has significant impact
on the scheduled experiments and their research teams. We want to
apologize for this major loss of beam time and for any
inconveniences or problems that it might be causing you.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">TRIUMF is committed to both restoring beam
delivery as soon as possible and to doing our best to ensure that
such downtime happens as rarely as possible. Our experts are
currently assessing the situation and we will provide updated
information on the necessary time to recover as soon as we can.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for your ongoing support,
understanding, and patience. Please stay tuned for further
updates.</p>
Regards,<br>
Reiner Kruecken<br>
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New",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">--</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
New",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Dr. Reiner
Kruecken</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
New",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Deputy
Director, TRIUMF</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
New",serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Professor
of Physics, University of British Columbia</span><br>
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<font size="-1" color="#666666"><i>sent on Dr. Kruecken behalf by...
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Administrative Assistant
Physical Sciences Division
Tel: 604.222.7438
TRIUMF
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4004 Wesbrook Mall
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