Major Resource Support for the Particle Physics Group at the Université de Montréal

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The infrastructure program of the Particle Physics Group at the Université de Montréal (GPP/UofM) maintains facilities supporting the research program of researchers from the University of Montreal (UofM) and from Laurentian University (LU). The research program involves 8 grant co-applicants from the GGP/UofM and LU and a number of main users. The resource provides the infrastructure and technical support for construction and R&D for detectors, readout electronics, trigger, data acquisition and detectors beam testing. It also provides a computing support. The resource facilities consist of a electronics and mechanical workshops, as well as direct access to proton and neutron beams delivered by the Tandem accelerator of the R.J.A. Lévesque Laboratory. Their capabilities have been augmented with the help of a CFI support ($3.4 Millions for UdeM) which allowed the construction of clean rooms, a new neutron beam line for detectors testing and study, a semiconductor test bench and an upgrade of the electronics and mechanical workshops. The various technical and professional resources are organized as a support unit: The Groupe Technologique (GT) that is partially supported by the university and industrial contracts.The GPP/UofM experimentalists are active in three experiments: i) ATLAS at LHC, CERN ii) BaBar at SLAC, Stanford USA, studying the iii) PICASSO at the SNO laboratory. The LU experimentalists are active in four experiments at the SNO laboratory: i) EXO, ii) SNO+, iii) HALO and iv) PICASSO. The resource is also used by groups from other UofM departments (physics, physiology) and by groups from other universities in Canada and in the world such as VERITAS and POLARBEAR (McGill) , ILC (Carleton, Aachen University-Germany, Cornell-US, CEA Saclay, Berkeley, Max-Plank Institute Munich, TIGRESS (TRIUMF, McMaster, Laval, Guelph), TACTIC (TRIUMF York-UK), ALPHA (TRIUMF, CERN), Medical physics-Liquid Xenon PET prototype (TRIUMF). Theorists from GPP/UofM and from the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) collaborate with the experimental groups through their participation to phenomenological studies of physics at LHC energies.