Dr. Wolfgang Rau joins TRIUMF

April 25, 2018 — People Stories

Through CFREF (Canada First Research Excellence Fund) and the CPARC (Canadian Particle Astrophysics Research Centre) program, Rau joins the TRIUMF community as a joint Queen’s University faculty-TRIUMF research scientist. He is an accomplished experimental physicist and has devoted decades of his career to the search for the elusive substance that makes up nearly 80% of matter in the observable universe: dark matter. Rau currently leads the Canadian involvement at SuperCDMS (Cryogenic Dark Matter Search) at SNOLAB, the most advanced iteration of the CDMS effort yet undertaken. 

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