The TUCAN (TRIUMF UltraCold Advanced Neutron) collaboration aims for the construction of the world strongest ultracold neutron (UCN) source with a production rate of $1.6\times 10^{7}$ neutrons per second. The TUCAN source is based on a UCN production volume of superfluid helium (He-II), held at 1 K, coupled to a proton-driven spallation target. I’ll describe the functioning of the source and...
The Electron-Ion Collider (EIC) is the first new collider to be constructed in the 21'st century. When operational at Brookhaven National Laboratory in the early 2030's, it will allow hadron structure to be probed over a center of mass energy range of 20-140 GeV at very high luminosity ($10^{33}-10^{34}$~cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$). For $e-p$ collisions, this will be the first collider where both...
The principal goal of the GlueX experiment at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is to search for non-qbar-q mesons, a construction not allowed by the simple quark model but predicted by Quantum Chromodynamics. Specifically, hybrid mesons, which result from the addition of a constituent gluon and are pictured as a qbar-qg state, will be accessed using the 8-9 GeV linearly...
Potassium-40 ($^{40}$K) is a radioactive isotope of potassium that is found in rocks and the human body. It has two daughter isotopes, argon-40 ($^{40}$Ar), and calcium-40 ($^{40}$Ca). The most common decay of $^{40}$K is to $^{40}$Ca via $\beta$- decay, with a branching ratio of approximately 89.25%. The decay to $^{40}$Ar can occur through three methods, electron capture to an excited state...
