The Cockcroft Institute

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.

June 3, 2011

ASTeC Work Experience

Alex Mason, who spent two weeks at ASTeC to gain work experience, successfully completed a project ‘Two weeks near Absolute Zero’ where he records his experience with Cryogenics and Superconductivity. …read the .pdf booklet »

May 11, 2011

Early career prize for Lancaster physicist

A Lancaster PhD student is celebrating winning a major early career award. Cherry Canovan, who is studying mathematical physics at Lancaster University and the Cockcroft Institute, was named the Very Early Career Woman Physicist of the Year at a ceremony…

April 27, 2011

Congratulations to Mike Poole who has been elected a Fellow of the European Physical Society

“Distinction as a Fellow of the European Physical Society is awarded to EPS Members whose contribution to physics, education, industry, or the society itself warrants recognition.” Mike Poole has been awarded a fellowship for key early contributions to novel synchrotron…

April 1, 2011

First Acceleration In EMMA!

During the last three to four days, the EMMA accelerator physics team have been tuning the accelerator settings as part of the systematic studies towards first acceleration within EMMA. The team have studied the interaction of the RF field with…