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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 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…
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March 15, 2014

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…
February 28, 2014

EU awards more than 600 k€ to support Cockcroft Research

Low energy antimatter experiments and the development of new beam diagnostics techniques for charged particle beams and are two of the main research areas in the pan-European QUASAR Group at the Cockcroft Institute. The EU has just announced that it will support…