On Friday, 2nd September 2011, the first infra-red SNOM image was collected using radiation from the ALICE IR-FEL at Daresbury Laboratory by a Cockcroft Institute team comprising of partners from…
The Cockcroft Institute hosted a special workshop on a novel new type of crab cavity for the LHC high luminosity upgrade on the 16th and 17th August. The “Four Rod…
On the 25th July the compact electron linac achieved first acceleration. The current was measured to be around 10 mA at the Faraday Cup at the end of the linac…
The University of Liverpool, the lead partner in the Cockcroft Institute collaborative partnership of universities, research councils and industry, honoured Prof. Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN, on July 19,…
The Northwest regional Big Bang event was held on 05 July at the World Museum in Liverpool. A team from the Cockcroft Institute attended with an eye-catching array of material…
“Ultra-High Brightness Electron Sources” was held at the Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury Science and Innovation Campus from 29th June to 1st July 2011. The workshop was jointly organised by the Cockcroft…
The 20th Daresbury Dash took place on Friday 17 June 2011. A number of Cockcroft Institute staff took part, with congratulations going to Christian Naran who came third in the…
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…
“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…