The Cockcroft Institute

November 14, 2011

DITANET Conference held in Seville, Spain

The DITANET Consortium held a three day international conference on diagnostic techniques for particle accelerators and beam instrumentation in Seville, Spain between 9th and 11th November 2011. The conference was hosted by DITANET partner University of Seville/Centro Nacional de Aceleradores…

October 21, 2011

Fifth DITANET Topical Workshop on Technology Transfer

The fifth DITANET Topical Workshop on Technology Transfer was held on 29th and 30th September 2011. It was hosted by Instrumentation Technologies in Solkan, Slovenia and co-organised with Instrumentation Technologies’ annual Libera Workshop which discusses beam stability issues from the…

October 21, 2011

Fourth DITANET Topical Workshop on High Intensity Proton Beam Diagnostics

The DITANET Topical Workshop on High intensity Proton Beam Diagnostics took place on 26th and 27th September, 2011 at Massy close to Paris. In all there were 35 participants from 10 countries who contributed to the workshop and made it…

October 17, 2011

£4M EU Project on Laser R&D will be coordinated by the Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool

The advancement of science and engineering in the past decades is inherently linked to the development of lasers. Ever higher laser beam powers, brightness and shorter pulse lengths have helped establish them as an invaluable tool for both a wide…

October 6, 2011

CI Postgraduate Conference

The Cockcroft Institute held its first Postgraduate Conference on the 5th October. Several presentations were given by PhD students from each of the universities on a wide range of topics from advanced electromagnetic theory, simulations of the LHC and other…

October 4, 2011

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

"The crab cavities present an even bigger challenge because they have never been used to kick a beam of protons in the transverse direction, not least at a steady rate of 40 MHz. Much of the R&D for crab cavities, which…

September 14, 2011

COCKCROFT INSTITUTE student Pei Zhang receives IPAC Ph.D. Student Prize at the International Particle Accelerator Conference, 2011

Pei Zhang, a Cockcroft Institute Ph. D. student at the University of Manchester and working at DESY, has been selected for Ph.D. thesis prize at the IPAC 2011 in San Sebastian, Spain. This prize is awarded to a student registered…

September 7, 2011

Cockcroft Institute project FELIS achieves a major milestone!

On Friday, 2nd September 2011, the first infra-red SNOM image was collected using radiation from the ALICE IR-FEL at Daresbury Laboratory by a Cockcroft Institute team comprising of partners from Daresbury Laboratory and University of Liverpool. SNOM, an abbreviation for…

August 19, 2011

Four Rod LHC Crab Cavity workshop

The Cockcroft Institute hosted a special workshop on a novel new type of crab cavity for the LHC high luminosity upgrade on the 16th and 17th August. The "Four Rod LHC Crab Cavity workshop" organised by the Cockcroft Institute had speakers…