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April 27, 2021

Carleton Researchers Collaborate to Improve How Diseases are Diagnosed and Treated

Carleton University researchers in physics and engineering are joining forces with biologists and medical practitioners to change how diseases are diagnosed and treated. Physics Prof. Sangeeta Murugkar leads Carleton University’s Laboratory for Laser-Assisted Medical Physics... More

December 18, 2020

Robert Clarke Posthumously Named Fellow of the IUPESM in Honour of Contributions to Medical Physics

Ottawa’s medical physics community is unique in Canada. Not only is the city home to two university physics departments and a teaching hospital, there’s also the National Research Council, where national standards for the use... More

October 20, 2020

A First for ATLAS: Carleton’s Manuella Vincter Reappointed Deputy Spokesperson

Carleton University’s Manuella Vincter, professor in the Department of Physics, has been reappointed for another term as Deputy Spokesperson for ATLAS at CERN, the European organization for nuclear research. Vincter’s mandate will be extended until March 2023.... More

July 10, 2020

Carleton Physicists Search for Particles Beyond Standard Model of Particle Physics

Even if we can’t see them, they are always there. Neutrinos are among the most abundant particles in the universe, but they are many thousands of times smaller than an atom. They have almost no... More

June 26, 2020

Carleton Experimental Physicists Design and Validate New Technology for CERN’s High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider is the largest machine on Earth – and one of most complex scientific instruments ever built. It uses powerful electromagnets to propel beams of charged particles at nearly the speed of... More

November 14, 2019

Medical Physics Maven

Rowan Thomson’s office is unassuming for a Canada Research Chair in Radiotherapy Physics. She has two computers, where she pulls up diagrams to better explain her vital cancer research. A drawing by her son is... More

October 12, 2018

Leading Role at ATLAS

Carleton Physics Prof. Manuella Vincter has played a leading role in the university's important contributions to the ATLAS project, the largest particle detector ever built and one of four major experiments at the Large Hadron... More

September 19, 2017

New Eyes on the Universe

New Eyes on the Universe, a unique travelling exhibition celebrating the particle physics discoveries at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO) and SNOLAB — a world-class science facility two kilometres below the surface of the planet at... More