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The second in this facility illustration series is provided here for download in several useful formats. ARIEL, a pillar of TRIUMF’s pioneering 5 year strategic plan is presented with interactive imagery throughout this site.
TRIUMF is located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) people, who for millennia have passed on their culture, history, and traditions from one generation to the next on this site.
At the heart of TRIUMF’s Advanced Rare Isotope Laboratory (ARIEL) is a built-in-Canada 30 MeV superconducting electron linear accelerator (e-linac) for isotope production. As the only purpose-built multi-user rare isotope facility in the world, and the world’s most powerful Isotope Separation Online complex, ARIEL will supercharge TRIUMF’s world-class research on
the nature of atomic nuclei, the origin of the heavy chemical elements, quantum materials and biomolecules, as well as medical isotopes for the imaging and treatment of disease.
Using advanced photo-production and photo-fission
techniques, the superconducting ‘e-linac’ will allow TRIUMF researchers to wield new and never-before-created beams of rare isotopes to explore deeper into the chart of nuclides. Adding to the existing single beamline-and-target, a second proton beam line from TRIUMF’s world’s-largest 520 MeV cyclotron will massively expand the laboratory’s isotope production in parallel to the existing Isotope Separator and Accelerator Complex (ISAC).
This poster is the second in a series of illustrative pieces
painted by local artist Danielle Adams, who reimagined this
newfound capability for Canadian science as three beams,
uniting to connect the 520 MeV cyclotron and the elinac
to ARIEL and ISAC operations when this facility is fully
commissioned in 2026.
Taking inspiration from classic NASA imagery of the Veil Nebula, and the earthbound ARIEL facility, my first set of illustrations emerged as rough pencil sketches that focused on the beamlines. However, after several iterations, the focus shifted towards my favorite part as an artist: the metaphorical idea of “particles as planets” and the opportunity to imagine the unseen subatomic space.
TRIUMF Communications
Danielle Adams
Louis Croquette
Thomas Planche
