Will Canada Build on Earlier TRIUMF?

Abstract

The cabinet in Ottowa will soon decide whether or not the government of Canada can afford its share of the $709 million costs for the construction of a new accelerator adjacent to the world's largest cyclotron in Vancover, British Columbia. The new accelerator has been dubbed KAON for the subatomic particles it will produce. The accelerator is to be a joint venture with Japan, Germany, and the U.S. who have already shelved similar proposals for KAON facilities in favor of a single facility at Vancover. The KAON factory would use the existing cyclotron accelerator at the Tri-University Meson Facility as a front end to five new accelerator and accumulator rings that will boost the energy of protons to 360GeV. This not particularly high energy will be compensated by the intensity of the beam, and many experiments that test the so-called Standard Model of particle physics will be carried out.