News Items 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.
Photographs of the event can be found at Mike Poole Fest Photos


Beam Image on Screen At the End of 4 Sectors 22 Cells 22:37 on 22.06.2010

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. The next steps, in the summer, will be commissioning of the full EMMA ring followed by the world’s 1st demonstration of the new mode of acceleration that EMMA is designed to demonstrate.

This novel accelerator concept could be applied to a range of applications including  cancer therapy, safe clean energy and muon acceleration for fundamental physics.

Many thanks for the efforts of all the team.

 


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.


 

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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 »