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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…
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postgraduate conference
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…
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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…
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Pei Zhang
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…
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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…
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Four Rod LHC Crab Cavity workshop
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…
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TEK00009
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…
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Director General of CERN group photograph
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…
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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…
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