Canada at the high-energy frontier

Canada at the high-energy frontier The search for new particles and fundamental forces is at the core of humanity’s efforts to understand our universe. For more than half a century, Canadian researchers have played key roles in addressing some of the most pressing questions of our time, including ‘What are the fundamental building blocks of matter?’ and ‘What fundamental forces govern their interactions?’ Global efforts to address such questions contributed to the development of the Standard Model of particle physics in the 1970s and to decades of increasingly higher-precision experiments designed to confront these theoretical expectations.