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September 9, 2015

POSIPOL 2015 Conference

Between September 2-4 2015 the Cockcroft Institute hosted the tenth international ‘POSIPOL’ workshop  on polarised postitron sources. Researchers from Europe, Asia and America met to discuss the latest developments in intense positron…

September 7, 2015

First UK In-Kind Contribution to ESS Successfully Installed and Commissioned

The European Spallation Source (ESS) will be the brightest neutron source in the world and will be built in Lund, Sweden. The project will be funded by Sweden and multiple…

September 2, 2015

How to measure ultra-small beam sizes?

Some of the smallest particle beams used in accelerators now have diameters in the nanometer range. It is extremely challenging to reliably characterize these beams. Light generated by the beam…

July 27, 2015

Cockcroft Scientist elected as IEEE Senior Member

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Sergey Vinogradov, a senior Marie Curie Fellow at the Cockcroft Institute from the QUASAR Group, was elected as IEEE Senior Member. Based on…

July 23, 2015

Analytical Fringe Fields

A problem which has been around for some time is the full description of fringe fields as a bunch goes into or out of a multipole magnet. A complete description…

July 15, 2015

First Transverse Phase Space Tomography Results on VELA

ASTeC and the University of Liverpool have completed the first tomographic reconstructions of the VELA transverse phase space, allowing us to characterise the full 4- dimensional beam distribution. The images…

July 13, 2015

International Conference on Accelerator Optimization

The Cockcroft Institute has teamed up with the University of Seville’s Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (CNA) to organize the first International Conference on Accelerator Optimization. The conference, funded by the…

July 8, 2015

Cockcroft Researcher awarded RSE/STFC Fellowship

We are delighted to announce that physicist Alexandra Alexandrova, a Fellow within the LA³NET project, was awarded a Royal Society of Edinburgh/STFC Enterprise Fellowship. RSE Enterprise Fellowships enable promising science…

July 2, 2015

Audience inspired at Laser and Accelerator Showcase

An international Symposium on Lasers and Accelerators for Science & Society took place on the 26th of June in the Liverpool Arena Convention Centre. The Symposium was coordinated by Prof.…