The Cockcroft Institute

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…

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…

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…

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…