News - The Cockcroft Institute

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…

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…