The Cockcroft Institute

June 12, 2014

Training the trainers: complementary skills workshop at the Cockcroft

During the delivery of European projects DITANET, LA3NET and oPAC which were all coordinated from the Cockcroft Institute a novel complementary skills training programme was developed by Prof. Carsten Welsch. Training in transferable skills that complement the technical research activities…

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…

May 14, 2014

CI Strategy 2014 – 2020 ‘Beaming Matter Into Life’

The Cockcroft Strategy CI_Card and Strategy_Map are both available as pdfs. Read the CI vision, research goals, key performance indicators and more.

May 12, 2014

Challenges and Trends in Charged Particle Beam Diagnostics

Almost 50 participants gathered at the Technical University of Vienna between 7 – 9 May 2014 to participate to the 3rd oPAC Topic Workshop on Beam Diagnostics. The workshop was opened with a welcome address of CIVIDEC’s CEO, Prof. Erich Griesmayer,…

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…

April 3, 2014

The Daresbury Laboratory Particle Physics Masterclass 2014

Daresbury Laboratory held its Particle Physics Masterclass over 3 days at the end March, with a record-breaking attendance of more than 330 students and 20 teachers from schools as far away as Conway and Wakefield. The event was organised and…

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…