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September 25, 2015

Beam Diagnostics – Down Under

Between 13-17 September 2015 beam diagnostics experts from around the world gathered i n Melbourne, Australia for the International Beam Instrumentation Conference IBIC. IBIC is an established annual conference series…

September 25, 2015

CI Researchers Presented at EAAC15

The 2nd European Advanced Accelerator Concepts Workshop (EAAC15) was held between 13th -19th September 2015 on the island of Elba in Italy. Cockcroft researchers Yuri Saveliev, Kieran Hanahoe and Guoxing Xia…

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 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 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…