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May 10, 2010

News Items May 2010

24 May 2010 EMMA Injection Magnet Module Installation A key milestone for the construction of EMMA was successfully achieved on Saturday 15th May, when the EMMA injection magnet module was craned into position in the EMMA ring. Watch construction movie…

April 12, 2010

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12 April 2010 1st EUCARD Superconducting RF (SRF) Annual Review The 1st EuCARD Superconducting RF (SRF) Annual Review was hosted at the Cockcroft Institute from 7th – 9th April 2010. During which, a total of 15 leading European institutes participated…

March 10, 2010

News Items March 2010

30 March The LHC has 7TeV CM collisions The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has now achieved proton-on-proton collisions at a 7 TeV centre-of-mass energy and physics data is being collected at the present moment. We at the Cockcroft…

February 10, 2010

News Items February 2010

12 February The newly appointed Cockcroft Institute Board Chair Sir John Pendry FRS visiting the experimental facilities on February 12, 2010 on the occassion of his first institute board meeting. 10 February High-Tech US Company to Make Daresbury…

December 17, 2009

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<span Reflections on the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)’s announcement on December 16, 2009 about its re-prioritised science programme Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay, Director, Cockcroft Institute and Sir John Cockcroft Chair of Physics, Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester

November 3, 2009

News Items November 2009

28 November [toggle_box] [toggle_item title="1st DITANET Topical Workshop" active="false"] Low Energy, Low Intensity Beam Diagnostics The first DITANET topical workshop took place on November, 24th and 25th in Hirschberg-Großsachsen near Heidelberg in Germany. It focused on the diagnostics of low…

October 2, 2009

News Items October 2009

14 October 2009 England's Northwest press release 12 October 2009 interactions.org press release 11 October 2009 Eminent early accelerator physicist, Prof. A.V. Crewe, Director Emeritus of Argonne National Laboratory, USA and graduate from Univ. of Liverpool dies at 82 years…

September 6, 2009

New Items September 2009

22 -23 September Meeting of the DITANET Steering Committee The third meeting of the DITANET Steering Committee was hosted by the Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology on September 22nd and 23rd. The delegates from Germany, Switzerland, Romania, Spain,…

August 29, 2009

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