We are delighted to announce the 1st extraction of the electron beam from the EMMA accelerator, the world’s first non-scaling FFAG. This was first achieved at 23:07 on the 7th…
Susan, who is ASTeC director and a member of the Cockcroft Institute management team, has recently been award a visiting Professorship from Liverpool University Physics Department. This appointment recognises the…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…