First P-ONE detector line prepared for deep-sea deployment
The first P-ONE line was assembled at TRIUMF and tested at Granville Island in June, ahead of deployment off Vancouver Island.
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SFU team builds the first petal for the new ATLAS tracker
The SFU and TRIUMF team will build about 100 of the 400 petals for the High-Luminosity LHC upgrade.
Photos: P-ONE line by Simon Fraser University. ATLAS muon chambers by Bernd Gross, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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ATLAS collaboration
All ATLAS news
From the ATLAS collaboration
Selected news from the ATLAS experiment at CERN, including progress on the new Inner Tracker that SFU helps build.
- A ringing success for the ITk Pixel Detector
Teams at SLAC loaded detector modules onto the first production ring of the Inner Tracker's pixel system.
- First petals installed in the ATLAS Inner Tracker Strips Endcap
The first nine production petals were installed in an ITk Strips endcap at DESY, starting full-scale integration.
- 77 tonnes of ATLAS shielding on the move
A massive shielding component was moved across CERN's site, the first major transport of the shutdown for the High-Luminosity LHC.
- Summary of new ATLAS results from ICHEP 2026
New physics results presented at the International Conference on High Energy Physics.
- ATLAS records vital low-intensity data during special LHC run
A three-week "quiet" run gives a clearer view of W-boson decays.
- Summary of new ATLAS results from Moriond 2026
Highlights from the annual Moriond conferences.
- ATLAS 2025 Thesis Awards spotlight the "soul" of the Collaboration
Celebrating the contributions of PhD students across the experiment.
- ATLAS takes a breath of oxygen
ATLAS records its first-ever collisions of oxygen and neon ions.
IceCube collaboration
All IceCube news
From the IceCube collaboration
Selected news from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, where SFU's Darren Grant served as spokesperson.
- Francis Halzen, IceCube principal investigator, wins 2026 Physics Nobel Prize
Honoured for decisive contributions to IceCube and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos from space.
- Using IceCube and HAWC data to investigate the center of our galaxy
Combining neutrino and gamma-ray data to study how particles at the centre of the Milky Way reach extreme energies.
- IceCube search for the source of KM3NeT's record-breaking event
Looking for the source of the highest-energy neutrino candidate ever reported, seen by KM3NeT at 220 PeV.
- Projected sensitivities of the IceCube Upgrade
What the newly deployed Upgrade will add to the hunt for neutrino sources.
- NSF renews IceCube operation and maintenance agreement
A five-year, $53 million agreement keeps IceCube running from 2026 to 2031.
- IceCube's 14-year data release for neutrino source searches
Fourteen years of data, from 2008 to 2022, made public for anyone searching for neutrino sources.
- New evidence from the Southern Hemisphere links neutrinos to X-ray bright active galaxies
Southern-sky data point to active galaxies like NGC 1068 as neutrino sources.
- The IceCube Neutrino Observatory gets a major upgrade beneath the ice
Five new, densely instrumented strings with more than 600 sensors and calibration instruments are now in the ice.
P‑ONE collaboration
All P‑ONE news
From the P‑ONE collaboration
News from the international P‑ONE collaboration, which SFU's Matthias Danninger leads as spokesperson.
- Successful wet test of P-ONE-1 in Vancouver's Granville Island
The first detector line passed its final shallow-water test before deployment.
- Completed integration of first detector line P-ONE-1
P-ONE-1 was integrated and tested in the TRIUMF cleanroom and is ready for deployment.
- The P-ONE collaboration mourns the passing of Roger Moore
Remembering Dr. Roger Moore of the University of Alberta.
- Matthias Danninger elected as next P-ONE Spokesperson
SFU's Matthias Danninger served first as Deputy Spokesperson before taking over the role in 2026.
- Ignacio Taboada receives over $1.5 million to build P-ONE's sensor trigger system
An NSF Major Research Instrumentation grant funds the trigger system.
- The recovered STRAW pathfinder hardware is back in Germany for analysis
Pathfinder instruments were shipped to Germany for checks.
- Elisa Resconi elected the first spokesperson of the P-ONE collaboration
The project's initiator becomes its first spokesperson.
- ERC Advanced Grant for P-ONE project of Elisa Resconi
Funding to develop and deploy the first three P-ONE strings.
- ONC node at Cascadia Basin provides ideal conditions for P-ONE
STRAW pathfinder data show the seafloor site is well suited to a neutrino telescope.
- P-ONE: Initiative for a new, large-scale neutrino observatory in the Pacific Ocean
The proposal for a neutrino telescope in the Pacific Ocean is announced.
- The first pathfinder experiment deployed on the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean
Ocean Networks Canada installs the STRAW pathfinder moorings.
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