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Delegates from the international partner institutions of the FLAIR collaboration joined for a collaboration meeting at the Cockcroft Institute on February, 21./22. 2011. The meeting was chaired by the spokesman of the collaboration, E. Widmann, and hosted by C.P. Welsch (Cockcroft). T

14 December 2010 PhD Student of the year First year Accelerator Science PhD student Cherry Canovan has won the Lancaster University Faculty Prize for best PhD Student of the year. 14 December 2010 XB10 Workshop ASTeC and the Cockcroft Institute hosted XB-10, an International Workshop

1 November 2010 We are pleased to announce that Chris Lingwood has just passed his PhD and completed all corrections to examiners satisfaction. Chris’s thesis was on “High Power, High Efficiency Multiple-Beam Klystron Design” in which he investigated the design of th

23 October 2010 FIRST LASING IN ALICE FREE ELECTRON LASER I am delighted to announce that the Infra Red Free Electron Laser installed on the ALICE accelerator at STFC Daresbury Laboratory lased for the first time on Saturday 23rd October 2010 at 16:35. Present in the Control Room were

31 August 2010 Nuffield Students Demonstrate the Phenomenon of Superconductivity Two AS level summer students,  Adam McAteer (Carmel College, St. Helens) and Keir Pearson (King’s College Macclesfield), spent 4 weeks in August at the Daresbury Laboratory to get an insight into conducti