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| | UBC PhysAstro: Research |
 | | Standard Model of Particle Physics beautifully brings together three of the four forces of nature (strong, electromagnetic and weak) in a framework encompassing 6 quarks and 6 leptons, and the gauge particles which mediate their interactions (photons, W bosons, Z bosons and gluon's). |
 | | TRIUMF, Canada's National Laboratory for Particle and Nuclear Physics, is located at the southern end of the UBC campus, and its new ISAC facility is the world's leading source of light radioactive ions. |
 | | The physics case is clear: precision studies of the top quark, W and Z gauge boson couplings, the Higgs boson (or whatever else plays its role in generating particle masses), and the probable new physics (supersymmetry?) that keeps all particle masses from being renormalized to some much higher energy scale. |
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