31 August 2010
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31 August 2010
Nuffield Students demonstrate the phenomenon of Superconductivity
Two AS level summer students, Adam McAteer (Carmel College, St. Helens) and Keir Pearson (King’s College Macclesfield), spent 4 weeks in August at the Daresbury Laboratory to get an insight into conducting real life physics experiments.
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27 August 2010
Thousands of turns in EMMA
I’m delighted to inform you that during the latest EMMA commissioning run earlier this week further significant milestones have been achieved.
Circulating beams with more than a thousand turns have been achieved and commissioning of the RF system is also well advanced.
The next EMMA operating period starts on 30th August when work resumes to demonstrate evidence of acceleration and transverse stability with resonance crossing, which are major goals for this novel particle accelerator.
Neil Bliss
EMMA Project Manager
22 June 2010
Cockcroft Institute Summer Lecture Series - (part 2)
Full details, including dates and times, are shown on the programme advertisement (pdf), which begins in July with a week devoted to superconducting rf accelerators. …read more »
06 May 2010
Chair and Lectureship in
Particle Accelerator Engineering
The Department of Engineering at Lancaster University is one of the founding members of the Cockcroft Institute, specifically responsible for engineering aspects of this important, internationally-leading activity in the UK. As part of this and due to recent investment, applications are invited from Engineers and Physical Scientists at the top of their profession seeking an academic career specialising in Particle Accelerator Engineering. …read more - .pdf »
Welcome
The Cockcroft Institute is a newly created international centre for Accelerator Science and Technology (AST) in the UK. It was proposed in September 2003 and officially opened by the UK Minister for Science, Lord Sainsbury, in September 2006. It is a joint venture between the Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester, the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC at the Daresbury and Rutherford Appleton Laboratories) and the North West Development Agency (NWDA). The Institute is located in a purpose-built building on the Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus adjacent to the Daresbury Laboratory and the Daresbury Innovation Centre, and has established satellite centres in each of the participating universities.
The Institute provides the intellectual focus, educational infrastructure and the essential scientific and technological facilities for accelerator science and technology research and development, which will enable UK scientists and engineers to take a major role in innovating future tools for scientific discoveries and in the conception, design, construction and use of the world’s leading research accelerators for the foreseeable future.
The Institute is named after the Nobel prizewinner Sir John Cockcroft FRS . Born in Todmorden in north west England, and educated in part in Manchester, he is regarded as the pioneer of modern accelerator research.
Cockcroft’s subatomic legacy: splitting the atom (pdf)
This article first appeared in CERN Courier December 2007, and is reprinted with permission.
Amazing particles and light (CERN Courier March 2007)
Accelerators for nano- and biosciences (CERN Courier Oct 2002)
