31 August 2010
News
13 July 2010
Topical Workshop on ‘Longitudinal Beam Profile Measurements’
The exact determination of the time structure of ever shorter bunches in accelerators and light sources like the X-FEL, the ILC or CLIC is of high importance for the successful operation of these next-generation machines. It is also a key to the optimization of existing scientific infrastructures. …read more »
29 June 2010
The 29th June 2010 saw the Cockcroft Institute host the ‘Mike Poole Fest’, being attended by more than 150 people, which included Mike’s past and present colleagues, family members and senior STFC staff. The event was organised to celebrate Mike’s achievements on the occasion of his retirement, following a career that spanned more than 43 years.
Following an afternoon of talks and anecdotes Mike was presented with many gifts before everyone went on to enjoy an early evening reception.
Further details and photographs of the event can be found at
http://www.astec.ac.uk/mike_poole_fest/
and Mike Poole Fest Photos
24 June 2010
1st Electron Beam Successfully Steered Through 4 Sectors of EMMA
On Tuesday 22nd June at 22:37 the 1st electron beam was successfully steered through 4 sectors of EMMA onto the final screen in the accelerator sector. This is the 1st beam steered through a non scaling FFAG lattice structure and a significant milestone for the CONFORM project and our international collaborators. …read more »
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 »
18 June 2010
Brian Cox, a distinguished member of the Cockcroft Institute involved in the ATLAS forward physics experimental research, both in the detector and the accelerator issues, has been awarded the prestigious OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, for his services to science. …read more »
24 May 2010
EMMA Injection Magnet Module Installation
A key milestone for the construction of EMMA was successfully
achieved on Saturday 15th May, when the EMMA injection magnet module was
craned into position in the EMMA ring. … read
more »
Watch construction
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21 May 2010
Richard
Carter Fest & NVEC
14 & 15 July 2010
10 May 2010
ICFA Newsletter No. 51
Swapan Chattopadhyay (Cockcroft Institute, UK) has completed the editing of ICFA BD Newsletter No. 51 (April 2010). …read more »
12 April 2010
1st EUCARD Superconducting RF (SRF) Annual Review
Hosted
at the Cockcroft Institute from 7th – 9th April 2010. During which,
a total of 15 leading European institutes participated in reviewing progress
in many different fields of SRF technology as part of a collaborative EUCARD
work-package programme.
…read more »
30
March 2010
The LHC has 7TeV CM collisions
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has now achieved proton-on-proton collisions at a 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy and physics data is being collected at the present moment. We at the Cockcroft Institute, having many joint collaborative projects with CERN including the LHC and its upgrades, congratulate the CERN team for their success and wish further progress in the immediate future! public.web.cern.ch
23 March 2010
DSIC’s Sport Relief Mile
Huge
congratulations and thanks to all those who took part or donated money
to DSIC’s Sport Relief Mile.
63 entrants took part to raise
a grand total of £600.
After Swapan officially started the race, Adam Smith achieved the fastest race time of 5:36, whilst Gareth Bailey won the vote for Best Fancy Dress having run the entire race full cricket kit, bat and helmet included. A big well done to everyone who got involved and raised money for this worthy cause. (larger photo »)
22 March 2010
DITANET School on Complimentry Skills
DITANET organized a Complementary Skills School at the University of Liverpool
from 15th-19th March 2010. This course aimed at providing the network’s
early stage and experienced researchers with the necessary skills base
for a future career in both, the academic and industry sectors. …more »
18 March 2010
Particle Physics Masterclass
A-level students visited Daresbury Laboratory on 15-16 March to take part
in the annual Particle Physics Masterclass. …more »
16 March 2010
‘Particle Accelerators’ cause a Big Bang
The
Cockcroft Institute staff have been demonstrating to the public how particle
accelerators work at ‘The Big Bang’ science fair in
Manchester on the 11th-13th March this year. …more »
12 February 2010
The
newly appointed Cockcroft Institute Board Chair Sir John Pendry FRS visiting
the experimental facilities on February 12, 2010 on the occassion of his
first institute board meeting.
10 February 2010
High-Tech US Company to Make Daresbury Campus its UK Base
The US-based advanced computing applications and software company Tech-X Corporation is to co-locate at the Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus (Daresbury SIC) to set up its UK operations, in collaboration with The Cockcroft Institute (the National Centre for Accelerator Science and Technology).
– Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay, Director, Cockcroft Institute and Sir John Cockcroft Chair of Physics, Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester
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