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September 25, 2015

CI Researchers Presented at EAAC15

The 2nd European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop (EAAC15) was held between 13th -19th September 2015 on the island of Elba in Italy. Cockcroft researchers Yuri Saveliev, Kieran Hanahoe and Guoxing Xia attended the workshop and presented results on novel acceleration schemes…
September 9, 2015

POSIPOL 2015 Conference

Between September 2-4 2015 the Cockcroft Institute hosted the tenth international 'POSIPOL' workshop  on polarised postitron sources. Researchers from Europe, Asia and America met to discuss the latest developments in intense positron and gamma-ray sources for future linear colliders and related projects.…
September 2, 2015

How to measure ultra-small beam sizes?

Some of the smallest particle beams used in accelerators now have diameters in the nanometer range. It is extremely challenging to reliably characterize these beams. Light generated by the beam itself as it passes through a screen, referred to as…
July 27, 2015

Cockcroft Scientist elected as IEEE Senior Member

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Sergey Vinogradov, a senior Marie Curie Fellow at the Cockcroft Institute from the QUASAR Group, was elected as IEEE Senior Member. Based on strong support by his collaboration partners and existing IEEE Fellows…
July 23, 2015

Analytical Fringe Fields

A problem which has been around for some time is the full description of fringe fields as a bunch goes into or out of a multipole magnet. A complete description of fringe fields for dipoles has been around for quite…
July 15, 2015

First Transverse Phase Space Tomography Results on VELA

ASTeC and the University of Liverpool have completed the first tomographic reconstructions of the VELA transverse phase space, allowing us to characterise the full 4- dimensional beam distribution. The images show the normalised phase space determined from data collected on…
July 13, 2015

International Conference on Accelerator Optimization

The Cockcroft Institute has teamed up with the University of Seville’s Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (CNA) to organize the first International Conference on Accelerator Optimization. The conference, funded by the oPAC Marie Curie Initial Training Network and coordinated by Prof.…