Subatomic Physics Envelope - Major Resources Support Program

This Major Resources Support (MRS) grant application requests funding for two skilled, experienced technicians to assist experimenters exploiting the ISAC facilities at TRIUMF. Until 2016, we held an MRS grant funding one expert technician. Due to an administrative error, our effort to apply for a renewal of the grant did not succeed. On account of this error, TRIUMF agreed to pay the salary of this technician for one year. We now seek to re-establish the grant and expand its scope by adding a second expert technician who would help support a number of new experiments. This grant would enable increased access to technical assistance to help a wide variety of current and potential future users of ISAC. The budget request is for the salaries of both technicians and a SolidWorks licence seat dedicated to the second technician, as well as the associated annual software maintenance and suppor