24 October ALICE – first acceleration through the Booster. Around 4 MeV acceleration was achieved in Booster cavity 2 at 00:54 24/10/08. The success heralds a first for UK: a…
10 September Big Bang Day on BBC Radio 4 a special day of programmes planned to coincide with the official switch-on of the LHC at CERN on September 10th. Radio 4…
12 August The Big Bang in Liverpool Liverpool is currently hosting the ‘Big Bang’ exhibit which is aimed at making the physics and engineering of the Large Hadron Collider (http://www.lhc.ac.uk/)…
30 June Roger Jones (Physics and Astronomy, Manchester) has been awarded the honour of Fellow of the Institute of Physics. 26 June The 17th Daresbury Dash, 25 June, 2 miles…
30 May The Cockcroft Institute is pleased to announce that the proceedings of the workshop “Polarized Antiproton Beams – How?” held at the Cockcroft Institute from 29 to 31 August…
29 April Jim Clarke (Magnetics and Radiation Sources Group Leader) has been awarded the honour of Fellow of the Institute of Physics. 28 April CI Director Swapan Chattopadhyay has been elected to the American…
26 March Getting Behind the Wheel and onto the ILC website! Dr. Ian Bailey of Cockcroft Institute and Univ. of Liverpool, working on the ILC positron source development, getting behind…
27 February CI Director Swapan Chattopadhyay gives evidence to the Innovation, Universities and Skills Committee at the House of Commons. A transcript of this session is available at www.parliament.uk »…
21 January 2008 Launch of the new CI website Swapan Chattopadhyay would like to thank all those involved in developing the new website. Ian Bailey (Liverpool University) David Burton (Lancaster…