The Cockcroft Institute

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…

July 27, 2011

First acceleration for the Compact electron linac

On the 25th July the compact electron linac achieved first acceleration. The current was measured to be around 10 mA at the Faraday Cup at the end of the linac (see attached image). A dipole magnet used to deflect the…

July 21, 2011

Director General of CERN Prof. Rolf Heuer visits the Cockcroft Institute

[caption id="attachment_1464" align="alignnone" width="590"] Director General of CERN group photograph. Credit Andy Collins STFC[/caption] The University of Liverpool, the lead partner in the Cockcroft Institute collaborative partnership of universities, research councils and industry, honoured Prof. Rolf Heuer, Director General of…

July 13, 2011

The Big Bang in Liverpool

The Northwest regional Big Bang event was held on 05 July at the World Museum in Liverpool. A team from the Cockcroft Institute attended with an eye-catching array of material and demonstrations which certainly proved to be very popular with…

July 7, 2011

Ultra High Bright Electron Sources Workshop

"Ultra-High Brightness Electron Sources" was held at the Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus from 29th June to 1st July 2011. The workshop was jointly organised by the Cockcroft Institute, Diamond Light Source Ltd., John Adams Institute, Institute of…

June 21, 2011

Daresbury Dash

The 20th Daresbury Dash took place on Friday 17 June 2011. A number of Cockcroft Institute staff took part, with congratulations going to Christian Naran who came third in the race, completing the course in 12 minutes 10 seconds.

June 13, 2011

ALPHA-X Workshop: Theoretical and Experimental Aspects

The ALPHA-X (Advanced Laser-Plasma High-energy Accelerators towards X-rays) project develops laser-plasma accelerators and applies these to producing coherent short-wavelength radiation in conventional and plasma wiggler sources. Members of the ALPHA-X project gave talks at an open meeting on a range…

June 10, 2011

SPring 8 – New FEL machine makes first Lasing

"Some of you already know, our new FEL machine made first lasing at 1.2 Angstrom on June 7 evening time. We had so many troubles during beam commissioning, while 64 C-band klystrons were running nicely. After three month fight we…

June 10, 2011

Roger Jones – Referee acknowledgment for 2010, Review of Scientific Instruments

Roger Jones has acted as an outstanding and exceptional referee for papers submitted to and/or published in Review of Scientific Instruments during 2010.