News
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
14 October 2009
England's Northwest press release
12 October 2009
interactions.org press release
9 October 2009
The Cockcroft Institute looks forward with 2020 Vision
Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) UK has authorized the Cockcroft Institute Core Grant for renewal and extension till March 31, 2017
University of Liverpool press release
The University of Manchester press release
Lancaster University press release
9 October 2009
UK accelerator research receives a boost
Research into accelerator science and technology in the UK has received a boost with the announcement of nearly £20m...
STFC press release interactions.org press release
8 October
CERN supports crab cavities
8 October 2009
2nd Manchester International Workshop
Delegates from the 2nd Manchester International Workshop on Nanotechnology, Society and Policy visited The Cockcroft Institute. They were given an short presentation by Susan Smith and Elaine Seddon before going on tours of the Vacuum Lab and ALICE.
5 October 2009
Physicists seek to keep next-gen colliders in one piece
Accelerator at DESY (DORIS ) has been critical in enabling this years Nobel prize in chemistry!!
http://www.weizmann.ac.il/sb/faculty_pages/Yonath/home.html
http://www.weizmann.ac.il/
http://zms.desy.de
Accelerators, especially light sources using synchrotron radiation from bright electron beams in high quality storage rings, such being studied and innovated at the Cockcroft Instute in the context of electron-positron damping rings for the linear colliders, Super-B factories and various other light sources,are the engines that allow scientists to prepare, test, analyze and interpret the structure and function of matter, ianimate or living, at various scales. Such fundamental scientific goals are at the heart of what drives the creative and innovative spirit and conceptual development of accelerators at the Cockcroft Institute.
2 October 2009
New Director for the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science
It has been announced today that Professor Andrei Seryi will be the next Director of the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science (JAI).
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"A hearty CONGRATULATIONS on this excellent appointment!"
Prof. Dr. Swapan Chattopadhyay
Director, The Cockcroft Institute
22 -23 September 2009
Meeting of the DITANET Steering Committee
The third meeting of the DITANET Steering Committee was hosted by the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology on September 22nd and 23rd. The delegates from Germany, Switzerland, Romania, Spain, and the UK critically reviewed the network's recent activities, such as the first DITANET School on beam diagnostics at RHUL, and planned future Schools, Topical Workshops, Secondments, and collaborative research.
The Steering Committee is a body of senior scientists that was elected at the project start and is responsible of the implementation of the overall network strategy and takes all decisions concerning the network.
The Marie Curie Initial Training Network DITANET - "DIagnostic Techniques for particle Accelerators - a european NETwork" is coordinated by the University of Liverpool since 1st November 2008. With a maximum budget of up to 4,16 M€ it is the largest-ever EU funded education action for PhD students and young Postdocs in beam instrumentation for accelerators. The network was initiated and is coordinated by Carsten P. Welsch who joined the Cockcroft Institute in November 2008.
Further information:
http://www.liv.ac.uk/ditanet
http://www.quasar-group.org
23 September 2009
Daresbury SIC wins 'Outstanding Science Park' award
Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus (Daresbury SIC) won a prestigious UK Science Park Association Award at a glittering award ceremony in the Museum of Science & Industry, Manchester.
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BANG goes the theory
The ASTeC (Accelerator Science and Technology Centre) vacuum science group supplied the Bell Jar used in the BBC science programme ‘BANG’ for the experiment ‘Silence’.
Please contact Joe Herbert for details.
6-10 September 2009
Workshop on "Accelerator Science and Technology"
Hohenwart Forum Pforzheim,
After the successful workshop in Bad Herrenalb 2008, the QUASAR and THz-Groups joined forces again to organize a workshop on "Accelerator Science and Technology" in Pforzheim, Germany.
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Press release for FEL09
FEL09 Photos
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Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
4th July
“The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition has just closed, and I feel absolutely shattered, hoarse from talking, and yet strangely sad to see the end of such a fabulous week”, said Lee Jones as the public reluctantly began to leave the exhibition hall. The Royal Society held their annual Summer Science Exhibition last week (http://www.summerscience.org.uk/09/), and from 10:00 am on Tuesday June 30th until 5:00 pm on Saturday July 4th, there was a constant stream of interest from the public, school parties and the media.
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L-R: Dr. Ricardo Bartollini a ,b, Prof. Phil Burrows a,c, Prof. Rolf-Dieter Heuer (CERN Director General), Prof. Emmanuelle Tsesmelis a,d, Ms. Suzie Sheehy a,c, Dr. John Thomason a,ec
a John Adams Institute; b Diamond Light Source; c University of Oxford; d CERN; a STFC ISIS
Dr. Dexter (Left) & Prof. Chattopadhyay
15th July
" A radio-frequency 'Crab Cavity' section for future particle colliders : a novel technological element enabling deflection of crossing charged particle beams, thus enhancing their probability of collision and discovery of the hidden world within!"
Presented to Dr. Mike Dexter FRS by the staff of the Cockcroft Institute in appreciation of and gratitude for his commitment and support as first Chair of the Board 2004 to 2009, during which the Cockcroft Institute was founded and then established as an internationally recognised centre of excellence for accelerator science and engineering.
DPG Physics Teachers’ School on Accelerator and High Energy Physics 6th -10th July
More than ten thousand particle accelerators are presently in operation around the world. These machines are used as the key element for cancer therapy in modern hospitals, as state-of-the-art light sources, as well as particle smashers, such as the gigantic Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. To highlight the challenges the German Physical Society hosted a School on Accelerator and High Energy between July 6 and 10 at the physics centre in Bad Honnef, Germany.
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Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition
30th June
On Tuesday June 30th, the annual Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition opens at the Royal Society in London.
(Left - Right)
Dr. Nicolas Delerue (Oxford University, John Adams Institute)
Dr. Lee Jones (STFC Daresbury Laboratory, ASTeC / Cockcroft Institute)
Ms. Suzie Sheehy (Oxford University, John Adams Institute)
Dr. Michelle Warren (Diamond Light Source)
Ms. Penny Jackson (Oxford University, John Adams Institute)
16th June 2009
Daresbury Dash
Congratulations to all 44 who completed the 18th Daresbury Dash.
Keith Middleman's winning time was the 3rd fastest ever.
1st Keith Middleman (Middle) 2nd Mark Blackburn (Left)
3rd Joe Herbert (right)
The first meeting of the international Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) took place at the Cockcroft Institute on June 4-5, 2009 and concluded that:
“NLS will be a fascinating and unique new radiation source” and importantly that it contains an “adequate balance of high level,
state-of-the-art technology vs. ambitious novel concepts”.
Lord Drayson of Kensington visit
Lord Drayson of Kensington, Minister of State for Science and Innovation visited the ALICE facility.
- 4th May 09
University of Lancaster
and the Cockcroft Institute
The University of Lancaster and the Cockcroft Institute are delighted to announce that Professor Richard Carter was presented with the IVEC 2009 Award for Excellence in Vacuum Electronics on 28th April at the Tenth International Vacuum Electronics Conference in Rome.
This prestigious award was made, “For a life-long commitment to education in vacuum electronics and visionary leadership in academia and technical research in the field.” It recognises the international impact of Professor Carter’s work over a period of thirty years. His deep insight into, and comprehension of, the complex mechanisms of vacuum electronics together with a rare aptitude for synthesis and explanation have had a widely recognized influence on the way the many former students, researchers and people who have attended his lectures, think about the theory and modelling of microwave tubes. His lectures, delivered in eight countries, in three continents, and in video recordings, have been an invaluable source of knowledge within the international vacuum electronics and particle accelerator communities. Around fifty people have worked with him as research fellows, research assistants and research students. Several of these now hold leading positions: two are laboratory directors and three head major research groups in the USA, China and India.
Professor Carter’s uncommon breadth of expertise is demonstrated by innovative contributions on: modelling of helix, coupled-cavity, folded waveguide and in general slow-wave structures for travelling-wave tubes (TWTs) with particular emphasis on equivalent circuit definition, performance improvements and large signal aspects; design and simulation of strapped magnetron anodes; beam-wave interaction in klystrons and multi-beam klystrons; and development of methods of cold-test measurement for components used in microwave tubes. He was responsible for developing, or overseeing the development, of computer codes for large-signal modelling of TWTs and klystrons. His contributions have been embodied in computer codes which are used in UK, European, and Indian companies and research laboratories for computer-aided design of microwave tubes.
Appointed to the staff of the Engineering Department of Lancaster University in 1972, Richard Carter was promoted to a Chair in 1996. He was influential in the formation of the Faraday Partnership in High Power Radio-Frequency Engineering in 2001 and the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology in 2004. He is an IEEE Electron Devices Society Distinguished Lecturer and has been a member of the Technical Committee on Vacuum Electronics since its formation in 1998.
Background Information
The International Vacuum Electronics Conference IVEC 2009 was held in Rome, Italy on 28-30 April 2009. The meeting, attended by more than 250 delegates, took place at the Angelicum, Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas and was sponsored by the European Space Agency with the technical co-sponsorship of IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) and the support of the University of Rome Tor Vergata.
IVEC was originally created in 2000 by merging the US Power Tubes Conferences and the European Space Agency TWTA Workshops, and has now expanded to a fully international conference, being held every other year in the US, and in Europe and Asia alternately every fourth year. After Kitakyushu, Japan in 2007 and Monterey, USA in 2008, IVEC 2009 returned to Europe for the celebration of its tenth anniversary in the magnificent city of Rome.
IVEC has become the worldwide forum for all players in the field of Vacuum Electronics, drawing together representatives of academia, research institutes, industry, institutions and users. For systems developers, IVEC provides unique insight into the latest developments in vacuum electron devices. These devices continue to provide power and performance for advanced electromagnetic systems, especially at higher frequencies. Rapid technological advances in the vacuum electron device area, as well as new and improved devices, are making it possible for systems to achieve reliability and capabilities well beyond those of any available today.
The IVEC Award for Excellence in Vacuum Electronics was established in 2002 to recognize outstanding contributions to the field. Anyone or any group of persons working in the field of vacuum electronics is eligible for this award, which will be presented each year during the IVEC conference. Anyone in the field may place a colleague in nomination. Selection of the winner will be made by a vote of the members of the Technical Committee. Members of the Technical Committee who are nominees may not vote. Only living persons are eligible for the award. The winner will receive a commemorative plaque and an award of $2000. If a group nomination is selected for the award they will each receive a plaque and share the $2000.
Previous recipients of the IVEC Award for Excellence in Vacuum Electronics:
2002- Armand Staprans, Communication and Power Industries, USA
2003- George Caryotakis, Stanford Linear Accelerator, USA
2004- Georges Fleury, Thales Electron Devices, France
2005- Joe Saloom, Technical Consultant, USA
2006- Jim Dayton Jr., Genvac Aerospace Corp., USA
2007- Baruch Levush, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
2008- Manfred Thumm, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
http://www.ivec2009.org/
New Record for GaAs Quantum Efficiency at Daresbury!
This week a team of scientists from Daresbury achieved a major milestone for the future of ALICE. …more »
LCLS First Lasing
X-Ray laser pulses of unprecedented energy and brilliance produced at SLAC …more »
Accelerating success: Imperial teams up
with the Cockcroft Institute
Developing the next generation of high energy, efficient, innovative and high quality particle accelerators is the aim of a new research collaboration between Imperial College London and the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology in Cheshire, UK, announced today.…more »
- 27th January
The Chief Executive Officer Robert Kirby-Harris of the Institute of Physics and Director General of Research Councils, Professor Adrian Smith visited the Cockcroft institute and took a tour of ALICE. on February 12, 2009.
The Chief Executive Officer Robert Kirby-Harris of the Institute of Physics, had an in-depth one-on-one discussion with the institutedirector Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay on the subject of enhancing mutual roles of IoP and CI, a tour of the ALICE facility and a round-table discussion with Cockcroft Institute senior scientists Mike Poole, Roger Jones, Susan Smith, Neil Marks, Joe Herbert, Roger Jones and early career post-doctoral reserachers and Ph. D. students. The tour also included discussions with the Daresbury Innovation Center Manager John Leake and Deputy CEO of STFC, Prof. Colin Whitehouse. The visit is a follow-up from a discussion between the Director of the Cockcroft Institute and the IoP CEO at the Royal Society a few months back. The IoP has been a strong supporter of the institute, articulating and advocating its views. The Cockcroft Institute also hosts Louise Boutcher, the regional IoP officer and the IoP Merseyside branch council members Mike Poole and Neil Marks.
January 2009
- 27th January
Professor Sir Howard Newby vice chancellor of Liverpool University and Lady Sheila Newby visited the Cockcroft institute and took a tour of ALICE.
(click image to view larger version)- 6th January
- Latest ALICE Achievment - Energy Recovery 20.8MeV
Latest energy recovery results obtained on ALICE on 2oth December 2008. The accelerator has been tuned for transport for the 20.8 Mev beam. The green and dark blue traces show the reduction to "zero" in RF demand on both linac cavities when the beam is decelerated through the cavities (Dump SR4 Out).
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