Events, Seminars, Meetings and web updates http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk Research Associate in Microwave Science/Engineering http://www.personnel.lancs.ac.uk/vacancydets.aspx?jobid=A138 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:45:00 GMT Latest energy recovery results obtained on ALICE on 2oth December 2008. The accelerator has been tuned for transport for the 20.8 Mev beam... http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/pages/news.htm Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:45:00 GMT Around 4 MeV acceleration was achieved in Booster cavity 2 at 00:54 24/10/08. The success heralds a first for UK: a high quality electron beam from a photoinjector being boosted halfway to relativistic energies by UK's first linear superconducting microwave accelerator. The injection is the critical process in any accelerator, the electrons and the team that builds the facility sharing the sufferings, the pangs and joys of 'birth', so to speak. With this successful injection, accelerating up to the speed up light can only be around the corner and the excitement to follow in not too distant a future!! http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/pages/news.htm Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:30:00 GMT 13th - 14th November 2008, Beam physics and technology issues for Alpha-X http://conf.dl.ac.uk/event.asp?eventID=154 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:30:00 GMT 27th - 28th November 2008, European Synchrotron Light Source XVI http://www.eslsxvi.dl.ac.uk/ Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:30:00 GMT 1st - 4th December, X-Band RF Structure and Beam Dynamics Workshop, Cockcroft Indtitute http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/events/X-Band/index.htm Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:30:00 GMT A special day of programmes planned to coincide with the official switch-on of the LHC at CERN on September 10th. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/bigbang/ Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:23:00 GMT At CERN on the 29th August 2008 Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay and CERN Director General Dr. Robert Aymar signed a major and comprehensive Agreement of Collaboration between CERN and the Cockcroft Institute. http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/news/CERN_agreement.htm Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:11:00 GMT Liverpool is currently hosting the 'Big Bang' exhibit which is aimed at making the physics and engineering of the Large Hadron Collider accessible to the general public. From now until 22nd September this free exhibit will be based at the World Museum in Liverpool. http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/news/LHC.htm#BigBangLiverpool Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:35:00 GMT The LHC first injection test was carried out over the weekend of 9th-10th August. The beam was injected at point 2, traversed the ALICE experiment and sector 2-3 and was then dumped on the momentum cleaning collimators at point 3. Intensity plots of the first protons in the LHC and full details. http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/news/LHC.htm#LHFirstInjection Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:35:00 GMT University of Manchester, 1st-5th September 2008 http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/events/FFAG08/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:35:00 GMT 10:00 to 18:00, Cockcroft Seminar Room C. A meeting for those interested in pursuing ADSR accelerator and reactor issues, especially using FFAGs http://agenda.hep.manchester.ac.uk/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=499 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:35:00 GMT Timetable, poster and syllabi available http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/education/academic0809.html Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:05:00 GMT 'Development of cooled NEA-photocathodes with fast response time and low energy spread for FEL-photoinjectors' given by Professor Alexandr Terekhov - Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Novosibirsk http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/events/seminars.htm#externalSeminars Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:25:00 GMT 'Update on the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory's "BigLight" source' given by John Singleton - (Los Alamos Laboratory Fellow) National High Magnetic Field Laboratory http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/events/seminars.htm#externalSeminars Thu, 5 Jun 2008 11:35:00 GMT This meeting will be held at the Cockcroft Institute on the 4th - 7th June. http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/events/MICE/CM21/ Fri, 30 May 2008 11:50:00 GMT This workshop will be held at Darebury 3th - 4th June and will focus on the technological capabilities and limitations of both the conventional laser and accelerator based light sources on which it may be based. http://www.newlightsource.org/events/Workshop_APS/ Fri, 30 May 2008 11:50:00 GMT The proceedings of the workshop "Polarized Antiproton Beams - How?" held at the Cockcroft Institute from 29 to 31 August 2007 have been published by the American Institute of Physics. http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/pages/news.htm#Scitation Fri, 30 May 2008 11:15:00 GMT Sir Tom McKillop visited the Cockcroft Institute during his visit to the Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus on May 12, 2008. Sir Tom was given a brief overview of the Cockcroft Institute by the institute Director Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay, followed by a discussion on the current issues facing the institute and Daresbury Lab scientists in the aftermath of the STFC merger, comprehensive spending review, the STFC proposed Delivery Plan and the subsequent community and government reaction to the plan. http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/news/T_McKillop.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 14:55:00 GMT Prominent members of the European Nuclear Physics Community: Prof. Brian Fulton, University of York and Chair of NuPECC, Prof. Gunther Rosner of University of Glasgow and Prof. Jens Jorgen Gaardhoje of the Niels Bohr Institute of the University of Copenhagen visited the Cockcroft Institute on the occasion of initiation of preliminary discussions... http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/news/ENPC.htm Thu, 15 May 2008 14:55:00 GMT Jim Clarke (Magnetics and Radiation Sources Group Leader) has been awarded the honour of Fellow of the Institute of Physics. http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/pages/news.htm#IoP Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:30:00 GMT CI Director Swapan Chattopadhyay has been elected to the American Physical Society's Division of Physics of Beams, the first such Chair from outside USA. Chair-line, 2007-2010: Vice Chair, Chair-elect, Chair and Past Chair http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/pages/news.htm#elected Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:03:00 GMT Three invited talks have been solicited from Cockcroft in the International Particle Accelerator Conference 2009 in Vancouver, Canada. http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/pages/news.htm#invited Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:02:00 GMT