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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 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 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…
Particle Physics Master Class
March 29, 2011

Particle and accelerator physics Master Class

Students from schools across the North West joined scientists from the Cockcroft Institute (CI) at Daresbury Laboratory on March 14th and 15th for the annual particle physics master class.  Building on the successes of previous years, and acknowledging the unique…
DITANET School Stockholm group photograph
March 17, 2011

DITANET Beam Diagnostics School

Poster From March, 7th – 11th 2011 an advanced DITANET School on Beam Diagnostics took place in Stockholm, Sweden. The School was combined with the network’s annual meeting and brought together around 100 researchers from major research centres, universities and…