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Topical Workshop on ‘Longitudinal Beam Profile Measurements’ The exact determination of the time structure of ever shorter bunches in accelerators and light sources like the X-FEL, the ILC or CLIC is of high importance for the successful operation of these next-generation machines. It

The 29th June 2010 saw the Cockcroft Institute host the ‘Mike Poole Fest’, being attended by more than 150 people, which included Mike’s past and present colleagues, family members and senior STFC staff.  The event was organised to celebrate Mike’s achievements on the occasion of his

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 » …read more below  

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 in reviewing progress in many dif

 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 Institute, having many joint collaborative proj