[News-releases] RE: TEST -- ATLAS completion of world's largest jigsaw puzzle brings Canadian Scientists to brink of breakthroughs

[Tim Meyer]

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From: Tim Meyer 
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 7:17 PM
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Subject: TEST -- ATLAS completion of world's largest jigsaw puzzle brings
Canadian Scientists to brink of breakthroughs

Good morning.

Canadian science expertise has played a significant role in the construction
of one of the largest international collaborative projects ever attempted in
science.  Today, Canadians can celebrate their role in placing the final
piece of equipment in a mammoth machine begun over nine years ago, the ATLAS
experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) thanks to the contribution by
TRIUMF, Canada's national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics
located in Vancouver, BC.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is a product of the efforts of thousands of
scientists and engineers from 178 institutions in 35 countries and regions
involved in a worldwide collaboration to complete the flagship particle
accelerator at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.  TRIUMF
brought together the expertise of over a hundred Canadian physicists who
contributed to the ATLAS detector, a 46-metre long, 25-metre high,
7000-tonne detector designed to examine the collisions produced by the LHC
accelerator.  ATLAS is a particle physics experiment that will explore the
fundamental nature of matter and the basic forces that shape our universe.

TRIUMF's participation via in-kind support of scientific staff and equipment
in this international effort is a tremendous opportunity for fundamental
physics research in Canada.  TRIUMF will also be a hub for data analysis
from the experiment, facilitating access cutting-edge physics research for
Canadian universities. 

Please find the formal press release of this incredible achievement
attached.  I look forward to an opportunity to tell you more about Canada's
contribution to international scientific leadership.

For more information, please contact:

Tim Meyer 

Head, Strategic Planning and Communications
TRIUMF
4004 Wesbrook Mall
Vancouver, BC V6T 2A3
Tel: 604-222-7674
E-mail: tmeyer at triumf.ca