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…
“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…
The 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…
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…
“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…
Roger Jones has acted as an outstanding and exceptional referee for papers submitted to and/or published in Review of Scientific Instruments during 2010.
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.…
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…
“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.” Mike Poole has been…