The Cockcroft Institute

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…

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…

March 14, 2011

1st extraction of the electron beam from the EMMA accelerator

We are delighted to announce the 1st extraction of the electron beam from the EMMA accelerator, the world’s first non-scaling FFAG. This was first achieved at 23:07 on the 7th of March by the ASTeC team. This achievement required a…

March 1, 2011

Congratulations to Susan Smith

Susan, who is ASTeC director and a member of the Cockcroft Institute management team, has recently been award a visiting Professorship from Liverpool University Physics Department. This appointment recognises the unique strengths of the Institute, which promotes seamless interactions between…

February 25, 2011

FLAIR Collaboration Meeting at the Cockcroft Institute, UK

Delegates from the international partner institutions of the FLAIR collaboration joined for a collaboration meeting at the Cockcroft Institute on February, 21./22. 2011. The meeting was chaired by the spokesman of the collaboration, E. Widmann, and hosted by C.P. Welsch…

December 14, 2010

News Items December 2010

14 December 2010 PhD Student of the year First year Accelerator Science PhD student Cherry Canovan has won the Lancaster University Faculty Prize for best PhD Student of the year. 14 December 2010 XB10 Workshop ASTeC and the Cockcroft Institute…

November 1, 2010

News Item November 2010

1 November 2010 We are pleased to announce that Chris Lingwood has just passed his PhD and completed all corrections to examiners satisfaction. Chris's thesis was on "High Power, High Efficiency Multiple-Beam Klystron Design" in which he investigated the design…

October 6, 2010

News Items October 2010

23 October 2010 FIRST LASING IN ALICE FREE ELECTRON LASER I am delighted to announce that the Infra Red Free Electron Laser installed on the ALICE accelerator at STFC Daresbury Laboratory lased for the first time on Saturday 23rd October…