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21 December 2011

Inspiring the scientists&  engineers of the future
The Big Bang UK Young Scientists &  Engineers Fair.
The NEC, Birmingham. 15 - 17 March 2012

The biggest single event of its kind in the country, The Big Bang Fair
moves to Birmingham for 2012. An award-winning combination of exciting
theatre shows, interactive workshops and exhibits delivered by
household names, together with careers information provided by a wide
range of people already working in the field, The Big Bang Fair
enables young people to see science and engineering in a new light. …read more»


14 December 2011

Medical Isotopes:
accelerator-based solutions to meet Europe’s future needs

 
The Cockcroft Institute recently co-hosted, in conjunction with CERN, a workshop on the “Accelerator-driven Production of Medical Isotopes” on the 8th and 9th of December 2011. This unique event brought together some 60 attendees including world–leading scientists and engineers, specialist clinicians and key global technology suppliers in an open forum to discuss some of the challenges faced in meeting Europe’s future isotope supply needs. …read more»


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6 M€ EU Project on Accelerator R&D will be coordinated by
the Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool

Within the oPAC project all these aspects will be closely linked with the aim to optimize the performance of present and future accelerators that lie at the heart of many research infrastructures. The project brings together 22 institutions from around the world, including major research centres. …read more »


Symposium in celebration of five years of the Cockcroft Institute.

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http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/events/amazing_particles/


Daresbury's Cockcroft physicist scoops award for inspirational women

Cherry Canovan, a Lancaster University PhD student of mathematical physics at the Cockcroft Institute, has been recognised for her significant achievement in managing a successful career change into science whilst having a young family....read more »


First scanning of near field optical images of oesophageal cancer using the InfraRed Free Electron Laser (IRFEL)

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A research collaboration between the Cockcroft Institute (including its stake holding partners: University of Liverpool Physics department and STFC Daresbury Laboratory’s ASTeC department), the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, the National Research Council ISM of Rome and the Institute of Translational Medicine  have recently collected the first scanning near field optical images of oesophageal cancer using the InfraRed Free Electron Laser (IRFEL) on the ALICE accelerator at Daresbury. ...read more »


DITANET Conference held in Seville, Spain

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The DITANET Consortium held a three day international conference on diagnostic techniques for particle accelerators and beam instrumentation in Seville, Spain between 9th and 11th November 2011 ...read more »


Fifth DITANET Topical Workshop on Technology Transfer

21 October 2011

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The fifth DITANET Topical Workshop on Technology Transfer was held on 29th and 30th September 2011. ...read more »


Fourth DITANET Topical Workshop on High Intensity Proton Beam Diagnostics

21 October 2011

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The DITANET Topical Workshop on High intensity Proton Beam Diagnostics took place on 26th and 27th September, 2011 at Massy close to Paris. In all there were 35 participants from 10 countries who contributed to the workshop and made it a truly international event. ...read more »


£4 M EU Project on Laser R&D will be coordinated
by the Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool

17 October 2011

The advancement of science and engineering in the past decades is inherently linked to the development of lasers. ...read more »


Postgraduate Conference

6 October 2011

The Cockcroft Institute held its first Postgraduate Conference on the 5th October. Several presentations were given by PhD students from each of the universities on a wide range of topics from advanced electromagnetic theory, simulations of the LHC and other accelerators, and designs of novel types of beam diagnostics. This gave the students the chance to find out about each others work and to present their own work to their peers. ...read more »


CERN's Large Hadron Collider

4 October 2011

"The crab cavities present an even bigger challenge because they have never been used to kick a beam of protons in the transverse direction, not least at a steady rate of 40 MHz. Much of the R&D for crab cavities, which must be compact and have acute phase accuracy, is taking place at the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology in the UK, with a test cavity that may be installed at the LHC during 2017–2018. ". - Physicsword.com


CI Autumn Term Lectures 2011

28 September 2011

Cockcroft Institute lecture series to be presented during the autumn term of 2011.
Full details, including dates and times, are shown at http://www.cockcroft.ac.uk/education/Autumn_Term_2011_Poster.pdf.

…read more »


COCKCROFT INSTITUTE student Pei Zhang receives IPAC Ph.D. Student Prize at the International Particle Accelerator Conference, 2011

14 September 2011

Pei Zhang, a Cockcroft Institute Ph. D. student at the University of Manchester and working at DESY, has been selected for Ph.D. thesis prize at the IPAC 2011 in San Sebastian, Spain. This prize is awarded to a student registered for a PhD or diploma in accelerator physics or engineering or to a trainee accelerator physicist or engineer in the educational phase of their professional career, for the quality of work and promise for the future. The winner receives a framed certificate, a cash prize of 1000 Euros and is given the opportunity to make a 15-minute oral presentation during the Accelerator Prizes Special Session at the conference. The prize is for individuals with no restriction to nationality. His contribution can be found in the SPMS session (THPPA00) in the conference (JACoW) website, under "Study of Beam Diagnostics with Trapped Modes in Third Harmonic Superconducting Cavities at FLASH".

Congratulations also to Pei Zhang from colleagues at the Cockcroft Institute.

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Cockcroft Institute project FELIS achieves a major milestone!

 

7 September 2011

On Friday, 2nd September 2011, the first infra-red SNOM image was collected using radiation from the ALICE IR-FEL at Daresbury Laboratory by a Cockcroft Institute team comprising of partners from Daresbury Laboratory and University of Liverpool. …read more »

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Figure 1: SNOM topographical image of test object, covering a 10 micron x 10 micron scan area.

 


Four Rod LHC Crab Cavity workshop

19 August 2011

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The Cockcroft Institute hosted a special workshop on a novel new type of crab cavity for the LHC high luminosity upgrade on the 16th and 17th August. The "Four Rod LHC Crab Cavity workshop" organised by the Cockcroft Institute had speakers from CERN, JLab, TechX as well as speakers from the Cockcroft Institute. Talks covered EM design, multipactor, prototype testing, cavity manufacture and cryostat design. The workshop was a review of the current electromagnetic cavity design as well as a planning meeting on the manufacture of the first such cavities in Niobium and the design of a cryostat. The participants also had a tour of the DICC cryomodule assembly in the Engineering Technology Centre and the Security Futures Laboratory. 

 


First acceleration for the Compact electron linac

27 July 2011

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On the 25th July the compact electron linac achieved first acceleration. The current was measured to be around 10 mA at the Faraday Cup at the end of the linac (see attached image). A dipole magnet used to deflect the beam to the FC suggests the beam had an energy of around 430 keV. This was confirmed with a radiation monitor. Further tests this morning suggest that higher energy had been achieved but misalignments in the diagnostics line meant that these electrons did not reach the FC.

 


Director General of CERN Prof. Rolf Heuer visits the Cockcroft Institute

21 July 2011

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The University of Liverpool, the lead partner in the Cockcroft Institute collaborative partnership of universities, research councils and industry, honoured Prof. Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN, on July 19, 2011 with a honorary Doctor of Science Degree ( Honoris Causa) in a graduation ceremony in the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall  followed by a gala dinner in St. George’s Hall in Liverpool on July 20, 2011 along with other distinguished honorary graduates. …read more »

 


The Big Bang in Liverpool 

13 July 2011

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The Northwest regional Big Bang event was held on 05 July at the World Museum in Liverpool.

A team from the Cockcroft Institute attended with an eye-catching array of material and demonstrations which certainly proved to be very popular with visitors. The ASTeC vacuum science group entertained groups of children throughout the day with vacuum demonstrations using their bell jar, showing what happens to an inflated balloon or a candle exposed to vacuum,  and how light can travel through a vacuum, but not sound.…read more »

 


7 July 2011

Ultra High Bright Electron Sources Workshop

"Ultra-High Brightness Electron Sources" was held at the Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus from 29th June to 1st July 2011. The workshop was jointly organised by the Cockcroft Institute, Diamond Light Source Ltd., John Adams Institute, Institute of Physics, DITANET and STFC Accelerator Science and Technology Centre. The workshop was attended by 47 participants from 16 different institutes around the world. …read more »

 


 

21 June 2011

Daresbury Dash

dash.JPGThe 20th Daresbury Dash took place on Friday 17 June 2011.  A number of Cockcroft Institute staff took part, with congratulations going to Christian Naran who came third in the race, completing the course in 12 minutes 10 seconds.   

 

 

 

 


13 June 2011

ALPHA-X Workshop: Theoretical and Experimental Aspects

The ALPHA-X (Advanced Laser-Plasma High-energy Accelerators towards X-rays) project develops laser-plasma accelerators and applies these to producing coherent short-wavelength radiation in conventional and plasma wiggler sources. Members of the ALPHA-X project gave talks at an open meeting on a range of experimental and theoretical topics including measurement of ultrashort electron bunch temporal profiles, properties of dispersive media in linear and rotational motion, a new kinetic theory of radiation reaction and the origin of the Schott term, challenges in beam collimation, tapered capilliary waveguides, LWFA beam line simulations, granularity effects in high brightness electron bunches and new techniques for investigating short-pulse propagation using ray tracing. The meeting was opened with an invited review talk about electron beam experimental methods and recent results from ALICE.


10 June 2011

SPring 8 - New FEL machine makes first Lasing

X_raySpot_.jpg"Some of you already know, our new FEL machine made first lasing at 1.2 Angstrom on June 7 evening time. We had  so many troubles during beam commissioning, while 64 C-band klystrons were running nicely. After three month fight we came to this result. Reality is always hard, but we can make it if we continue to do so. " - Tsumoru Shintake


10 June 2011

Roger Jones - Referee acknowledgment for 2010, Review of Scientific Instruments

Roger Jones has acted as an outstanding and exceptional referee for papers submitted to and/or published in Review of Scientific Instruments during 2010.


7 June 2011

Half-day Meeting on UK Hadron Therapy

A half-day meeting on UK Hadron Therapy, at Manchester University on Friday 10th June, 12:30 to 17:30. Meeting Website: http://www.accelerators.manchester.ac.uk/iophadron/

The purpose of the meeting is to bring together UK researchers working on technologies relevant to planned and proposed UK proton therapy centres, and to foster discussion and collaboration.
The meeting agenda is about to be finalised and will be available shortly on the schedule page. Registration for this meeting is free, but as such we will not be providing lunch.


3 June 2011

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Alex Mason, who spent two weeks at ASTeC to gain work experience, successfully completed a project ‘Two weeks near Absolute Zero’ where he records his experience with Cryogenics and Superconductivity.
…read the .pdf booklet »

 


3 June 2011

CI Summer Lecture Series

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AlexChao.jpgAnnouncing details of the Cockcroft Institute lecture series to be presented during the summer term of 2011. Full details, including dates and times, are shown on the lecture series poster. I am delighted to recommend the present programme, which provides an essential background in accelerator physics. The series begins with a week (Monday through Friday) of intensive lectures, commencing the 4th of July, by Prof. Alex Chao from Stanford University on Special Topics in Accelerator Physics. Here he will cover topics of current interest in accelerators: echo effect in accelerators (presently being investigated experimentally at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), laser acceleration (an important topic with the potential for very large gradient future compact accelerators), gravitational instability, and lie algebra (important for accelerator optics analysis). Experimental and practical details on lasers and acceleration are provided the following week by Dr. Graeme Hirst from Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. The summer series is then completed by lectures on the topic of polarised beams. Here we are fortunate to have the lecturers Dr. Ian Bailey and Dr. Gudrid Moortgat-Pick, from the University of Lancaster/Cockcroft Inst. and University of Hamburg/DESY laboratory, respectively. This course covers both the fundamentals and means of production of polarised beams.
…read more »


11 May 2011

Early career prize for Lancaster physicist.

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Professor Amanda Cooper-Sarkar of Oxford University presenting Cherry Canovan with her prize.

A Lancaster PhD student is celebrating winning a major early career award.
Cherry Canovan, who is studying mathematical physics at Lancaster University and the Cockcroft Institute, was named the Very Early Career Woman Physicist of the Year at a ceremony in London last week. . …read more»

 


 

27 April 2011

Congratulations to Mike Poole who has been elected a Fellow of the European Physical Society

 

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“Distinction as a Fellow of the European Physical Society is awarded to EPS Members whose contribution to physics, education, industry, or the society itself warrants recognition.” . …read more »





 


1 April 2011

First Acceleration in EMMA!

emma_clip_image002_0000.jpgDuring the last three to four days, the EMMA accelerator physics team have been tuning the accelerator settings as part of the systematic studies towards first acceleration within EMMA. The team have studied the interaction of the RF field with the beam, on more than one occasion, with different accelerator settings in order to tune and understand the acceleration process.
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Particle and accelerator physics Master Class

Students from schools across the North West joined scientists from the Cockcroft Institute (CI) at Daresbury Laboratory on March 14th and 15th for the annual particle physics master class.  Building on the successes of previous years, and acknowledging the unique opportunities available in running a master class at a national laboratory, the CI outreach group obtained agreement from the Institute of Physics to shift the emphasis towards accelerator design and performance, thereby show-casing the technologies that facilitate particle physics experiments.  This was essentially the first particle and accelerator physics master class. …read more »

 


17 March 2011

DITANET Beam Diagnostics School

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From March, 7th – 11th 2011 an advanced DITANET School on Beam Diagnostics took place in Stockholm, Sweden. The School was combined with the network’s annual meeting and brought together around 100 researchers from major research centres, universities and private industry from all over the world. …read more »


14 March 2011

1st extraction of the electron beam from the EMMA accelerator

We are delighted to announce the 1st extraction of the electron beam from the EMMA accelerator, the world’s first non-scaling FFAG. This was first achieved at 23:07 on the 7th of March. 9 March 2011 …read more »

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9 March 2011

Due to unfortunate and unforeseen circumstances, Professor Rodolfo Bonifacio is unable to present his series of lectures on Classical and Quantum Theory of FELs and they have therefore had to be cancelled.  It is possible, they may be rescheduled at a future date.  Unfortunately however, this means that there will be no lectures for the week commencing 14 March.

Lectures will resume on Monday 21 March 2011 with Ion Sources and Beam Diagnostics being given by Dr Christoph Gabor.

The lectures on Low Energy Accelerators and Storage Rings: Introduction and Diagnostics that were cancelled on the 14 February, due to the indisposition of the lecturer, have been rescheduled and will be presented by Dr Carsten Welsch on Monday 16 May and Monday 23 May 2011.

 


1 March 2011

Congratulations to Susan Smith

Congratulations to Professor Susan Smith who has been awarded a visiting Professorship from Liverpool University Physics Department …read more »


25 February 2011

FLAIR Collaboration Meeting at the Cockcroft Institute, UK

Delegates from the international partner institutions of the FLAIR collaboration joined for a collaboration meeting at the Cockcroft Institute on February, 21./22. 2011. …read more »


 

26 January 2011

Academic Training programme 2010-11, Spring 2011

I have pleasure in sending details of the Cockcroft Institute lecture series to be presented during the spring term of 2011. …read more »


 

7 January 2011

Sandwich Student placements

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) are offering
Sandwich Student placements for the coming year. In particular, there
is an opportunity for a second or third year undergraduate student
with an interest in optics to spend a year working on ultrashort
pulsed laser systems for the ALICE particle accelerator at Daresbury Laboratory.

Details of the project can be found at:
http://www.stfc.ac.uk/resources/pdf/SandStud2011-OC.pdf

Applications can be made by 31 January 2011 at:
http://www.stfc.ac.uk/About%20STFC/466.aspx


 

14 December 2010

PhD Student of the year

First year Accelerator Science PhD student Cherry Canovan has won the Lancaster University Faculty Prize for best PhD Student of the year.


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XB10 Workshop

 

ASTeC and the Cockcroft Institute hosted XB-10, an International Workshop on X-Band RF structures, Beam Dynamics and Sources from November 30th to December 3rd, 2010 at the Cockcroft Institute.  The purpose of the workshop was to pool common areas of interest and to explore the physics and technology of RF X-band accelerators. …read more »


 

14 December 2010

A Special Holiday Message

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1 November 2010

We are pleased to announce that Chris Lingwood (http://www.engineering.lancs.ac.uk/people/Chris_Lingwood) has just passed his PhD and completed all corrections to examiners satisfaction.

Chris's thesis was on "High Power, High Efficiency Multiple-Beam Klystron Design" in which he investigated the design of the RF amplifier for the drive beam of the Compact Linear Collider (CLIC). His supervisors were Prof. Richard Carter and Dr Graeme Burt at Lancaster University and the work was performed in collaboration with Thales and Erk Jenson and Igor Syratchev of CERN. His external examiners (Prof. Manfred Thumm and Dr Adrian Cross) remarked on the high standard of the thesis and how much work had been done.

Chris is now a research associate at Lancaster University and is working on Klystron Design and Multipactor in RF components.


1 November 2010

THE COCKCROFT INSTITUTE
SCIENCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE (SAC) MEETING

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23 October 2010

FIRST LASING IN ALICE FREE ELECTRON LASER

I am delighted to announce that the Infra Red Free Electron Laser installed on the ALICE accelerator at STFC Daresbury Laboratory lased for the first time on Saturday 23rd October 2010 at 16:35. Present in the Control Room were Neil Thompson, Peter Williams, Stephen Hill, and Yuri Saveliev. The recent hardware changes made to ALICE to enable the bunch charge to increase by more than 50% has quickly led to this successful outcome. …read more »

21 October 2010

Cockcroft Institute Hosts Fest Event for its First Emeritus Professor

Professor Richard Carter, who retired from Lancaster University in September 2009, was instrumental in the founding stages of the Cockcroft Institute and hence it was fitting that the Institute should host a colloquium to mark his career. The fest aimed to bring distinguished colleagues to deliver scientific papers on aspects of RF engineering which overlap Richard’s work or interests. …read more »

7 October 2010

A Special Message from The Director

Dear colleagues: It could not have been a system any simpler: a set of carbon atoms held in a two-dimensional lattice with remarkable properties……the ‘Graphene’, a mono-layer of carbon atoms, a carbon sheet that is a single atom thick. It took over a decade of absolute focus and penetrating investigations to understand its properties which led to this years’ recognition of the two Nobel Prize winners from the Univ. of Manchester. The north-west of England has done it again and this must inspire and mean a lot to the Cockcroft Institute scientists and engineers.  read more »

6 October 2010

Two Physicists from University of Manchester Receive Nobel Prize in Physics

Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov have just won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Manchester has a long tradition of mentoring scientists with ground-breaking contributions including Lord Rutherford and Sir John Cockcroft, the iconic figure that guides the Cockcroft Institute for its research aspirations! This makes the collective trio of the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster in England’s northwest connected with at least 30+ Nobel laureates around the world in some way or other either as past alumni, or their current or past faculty.

link to nobelprize.org »

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CERN PhD studentship

 

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Cockcroft Institute Autumn Lecture Series

Full details, including dates and times, are shown on the programme advertisement (pdf), which begins in September …read more »

31 August 2010

Nuffield Students Demonstrate the Phenomenon of Superconductivity

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…read more »

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

16 August 2010

1st Beam Steered Around a Non Scaling FFAG Ring

On Monday 16th August at 1:03 am the 1st electron beam was successfully steered around the total circumference of the EMMA ring.  Two complete turns were achieved, with beam detected on the third turn before the accelerator was switched off for the night at just after 3am. …more»

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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 »

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

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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

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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 »

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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

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24 May 2010

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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 movie »

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

EuCard_tiny.jpgHosted 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.
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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

SportMile2_tiny.jpgHuge 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

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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

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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

bigbangMarch2010_smaller.jpg 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

JPendry.jpg 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).

press release

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


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