28 November
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Low Energy, Low Intensity Beam Diagnostics
The first DITANET topical workshop took place on November, 24th and 25th in Hirschberg-Großsachsen near Heidelberg in Germany. It focused on the diagnostics of low energy and low intensity ion beams and brought together around 40 scientists and engineers from all over the world. Its particular aim was to join early stage researchers both from within the network and from the wider community with renowned experts to allow for establishing important contacts for their careers and for reviewing the status of the different R&D activities.
The first day started with an introduction to the future Facility of Antiproton and Ion Research, where many of the monitors presently under development in different groups will be used to monitor all beam characteristics with a high precession. It then stretched to the beam instrumentation used at different storage ring and cyclotron facilities around the world.
The second day concentrated on electrostatic storage rings which are the ideal tool for lowest beam energies down to a few tens of keV and intensities as low as 104 pps. Presentations were given on the ELISA (ISA, Arhus), DESIREE (MSL, Stockholm), CSR (MPI-K, Heidelberg), and USR (FAIR, Darmstadt) facilities and triggered interesting discussions on these challenging developments.
This workshop was organized by Peter Forck, Rainer Haseitl (GSI) and Andreas Peters (HIT) and made possible though the support by the DITANET project, initiated and coordinated by Carsten P. Welsch (Cockcroft Institute and University of Liverpool). It marked the beginning of a workshop series that will be organized by the network – information on future events will be posted on the network’s homepage.
Further Information:
Workshop homepage
DITANET homepage
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16 November
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.
3 November
Celebrations mark renewal of Cockcroft Institute core funding
Swapan Chattopadhyay (Cockcroft Director) & Artist Morris Riley
The Cockcroft Institute this afternoon marked the renewal of its core funding with a celebration seminar and unveiling of a specially commissioned artwork.
In the presence of members of the Cockcroft family, Chairman of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee Phil Willis MP and distinguished accelerator scientists from around the world, including Professor Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the Director General of CERN, a painting by Warrington artist Morris Riley was unveiled to mark the occasion. The painting used the cosmological evolution of the universe as a metaphor for the continued drive by the Cockcroft Institute to achieve academic excellence, industrial impact and national representation in worldwide accelerator projects.
On 9 October this year, STFC announced nearly £20m of funding to The Cockcroft and John Adams Institutes for accelerator science and technology research.
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Mr Christopher Cockcroft pdf
Distinguished Affiliate
Prof. John Womersley pdf
Director of Programmes, STFC
Prof. Maury Tigner pdf
Director, Newman Laboratory, Cornell University
Prof. Georg Hoffstaetter pdf
Chair, Science Advisory Committee
Dr. Mike Dexter pdf
Chair, Cockcroft Institute Board
<p”>“I am delighted that the Cockcroft Institute has had its core grant renewed up to 2017 and that it is able to continue and grow its world class program of research and development.
The industrial exploitation of this scientific and technological excellence is also an integral aspect of the work of the Institute which is becoming a more important issue at a time when the impact of publicly funded fundamental research is coming under much greater scrutiny.
I very much hope that the recently established Industrial Advisory Committee, which I have the privilege to chair, can make a contribution to this process of knowledge transfer and exchange. We hope to help the Institute grow its impact in key areas of economic and social challenge including Energy, Health, and Security, and build further collaborations with leading companies both in the UK and overseas”
Prof. Peter Saraga, Chair of the CI Industrial Advisory Committee (Past President of IoP and VP for Reserach, Phillips International).
“Congratulations on the renewal of the grant participation for the future of Cockcroft.
All the best for a growing future collaboration.”
Dr. Gerd Materlik, Chief Executive of Diamond Light Source, UK.
“———-Accelerators play an increasingly important role in many areas of science and applications and the Cockcroft Institute together with its partners like CERN is ideally placed to play an essential role in accelerator science and education.”
Prof. Rolf Heuer, the Director-General of CERN.
“My warmest congratulation with receiving of the STFC award for Cockcroft Institute! I share your belief that the award will enable further exciting opportunities for growth. I am also delighted and looking forward for working synergistically with you to further strengthen the role of accelerator science in UK!”
Dr. Andrei Seryi, the Director-designate of the John Adams Institute, UK.
“The success of the Cockcroft Institute model has proved that three otherwise fiercely independent and competitive universities can work together productively with a Research Council and other partners to produce world class science.”
Prof. Jon Saunders, Deputy Vice Chancellor of University of Liverpool.
“NWDA has been delighted to support the Cockcroft Institute – it has demonstrated that the Northwest can match anywhere in the world in scientific excellence. Warmest congratulations.”
George Baxter, Director of Science and Innovation, NWDA.
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