September 25, 2015
Beam Diagnostics – Down Under
Between 13-17 September 2015 beam diagnostics experts from around the world gathered i n Melbourne, Australia for the International Beam Instrumentation Conference IBIC. IBIC is an established annual conference series that gathers the world's beam instrumentation community. The event is…
September 25, 2015
Cockcroft Institute Particle Accelerator School
On the 9th of November Cockcroft will host the 2nd CI particle accelerator school (CIPAS). CIPAS is a two week residential postgraduate course for UK PhD students, on the design of particle accelerators with a strong computational design emphasis. CIPAS…
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 24, 2015
Rutherford International Fellowship Programme – deadline 31 October 2015
Apply now for a Rutherford International Fellowship CI partner ASTeC is pleased to be part of the Rutherford International Fellowship Programme and encourages eligible researchers to participate. Individuals with at least 4 years of research experience or a PhD can…
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 7, 2015
First UK In-Kind Contribution to ESS Successfully Installed and Commissioned
The European Spallation Source (ESS) will be the brightest neutron source in the world and will be built in Lund, Sweden. The project will be funded by Sweden and multiple other European nations. The UK as part of its commitment…
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…