ARIEL’s first steps towards rare-isotope excellence

Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics has started a new future in rare isotopes

17 February, 2015

ARIEL’s first steps towards rare-isotope excellence

The newly commissioned first stage of the superconducting-RF electron linac for ARIEL (Image credit: TRIUMF)

TRIUMF – Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics – is home to one of the world’s premier facilities for the production of rare isotopes. The Advanced Rare IsotopE Laboratory (ARIEL) has been conceived to expand the existing capabilities in important, new directions and to establish TRIUMF as a world-leading laboratory in accelerator technology and in rare-isotope research for science, medicine, and business. The first phase, ARIEL-I, includes a high-power superconducting electron linear accelerator, which accelerated its first beam to 23 MeV in September 2014.