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June 12, 2014

Swapan Chattopadhyay & the Cockcroft Institute: 7 Years On

After more than seven years at the helm of the Cockcroft Institute as its Inaugural Director and as Sir John Douglas Cockcroft Chair of Physics (jointly with the Universities of Liverpool, Manchester and Lancaster), Professor Swapan Chaterji (aka Chattopadhyay) will…
June 11, 2014

First EnEfficient RF Sources Workshop

The first EnEfficient RF Sources workshop took place at the Cockcroft Institute on the 3-4th June. Over 40 delegates took part in the 2 day workshop including 18 speakers presenting the state of the art (and beyond) of RF sources…
May 28, 2014

How to measure a beam – without touching it ?

Non-interceptive beam profile monitors are highly desirable in almost all particle accelerators. Such techniques are especially valuable in applications where real time monitoring of the beam properties is required while beam preservation and minimal influence on the vacuum are of…
April 22, 2014

Cockcroft paper accepted for PRST “Editors’ Suggestion”

The article entitled "Reconstruction of lattice parameters and beam momentum distribution from turn-by-turn beam position monitor readings in circular accelerators" by Chris Edmonds (Liverpool, Physics) has been selected by the Physical Review Special Topics for "Editors' Suggestion". Congratulations to the…
March 27, 2014

EIC14 – An International Workshop on Accelerator Acience and Technology for Electron-ion Colliders

[caption id="attachment_740" align="aligncenter" width="400"] EICgroup[/caption] On 17th -21st March, Peter Williams, senior physicist in ASTeC’s accelerator physics group attended EIC14, an international workshop on accelerator science and technology for electron-ion colliders, at Jefferson Lab, Virginia, USA. http://www.jlab.org/conferences/eic2014/index.html An electron-ion collider is…
March 15, 2014 CI_Outreach

The Big Bang 2014

[caption id="attachment_1208" align="aligncenter" width="500"] The Big Bang 2014[/caption]   Over 4 days in March, the National Exhibition Centre at Birmingham played host to the 'Big BangFair', the UK's largest science, engineering and technology fair. The fair was visited by more…