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The Cockcroft Experience through Visitor's Eyes
This is a message from Kentaro Harada, KEK, Japan
on his year-long visit to the institute.

Reflections on the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)’s announcement on December 16, 2009 about its
re-prioritised science programme

– Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay, Director, Cockcroft Institute and Sir John Cockcroft Chair of Physics, Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester


Ditanet Topical Workshop28 November

1st DITANET Topical Workshop
Low Energy, Low Intensity Beam Diagnostics


16 November

1st Compton X-rays

1st Compton X-rays

Early on Sunday morning the CBS team (a collaboration including scientists from Daresbury Lab, Rutherford Appleton Lab, Cockcroft Institute,  Max Born Institute, Manchester University and UCL) working together with the whole ALICE team successfully detected short pulse X-rays generated by interacting the multi-terawatt laser beam with the compressed relativistic electron beam of the ALICE accelerator.  Both spatial and temporal overlap of the micron sized beams was required for this achievement.

This work was supported by STFC and the NWDA through the NW Science Fund.


13 November 2009

The Cockcroft Institute Science Advisory Committee (SAC)



Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer3 November 2009

Celebrations mark renewal of
Cockcroft Institute core funding

Download programme 489KB pdf    Letters of Congratulations >>

STFC News Link>>


England's Northwest14 October 2009

England's Northwest press release




Interactions12 October 2009

interactions.org press release



 

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.

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Cockcroft’s subatomic legacy: splitting the atom (pdf)

This article first appeared in CERN Courier December 2007, and is reprinted with permission.

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Amazing particles and light (CERN Courier March 2007)
Accelerators for nano- and biosciences (CERN Courier Oct 2002)

 

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