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Welcome to ASTeC - The UK's Centre of Expertise for Accelerator Science and Technology.
ASTeC studies all aspects of the science and technology of charged particle accelerators, ranging from large scale international and national research facilities through to specialised industrial and medical applications.
Its staff pursue world class R&D programmes on behalf of STFC and it is also a partner in the Cockcroft Institute with the Universities of Manchester, Liverpool and Lancaster. Additional collaborations include John Adams Institute, other HEIs and international Laboratories.
2 September 2010
Nature Photonics
A "News & Views" commentary on the acheivements and significance of the LCLS X-ray Free Electron Laser facility, authored by Steve Jamison of ASTeC, has been published in the September issue of Nature Photonics.
"X-ray science: X-ray FEL shines brightly"
Nature Photonics 4, 589 - 591 (2010)
doi:10.1038/nphoton.2010.210
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 conducting real life physics experiments. more here...
31 August 2010
32nd International Free Electron Laser
Members of ASTeC recently attended the 32nd International Free Electron Laser (FEL) Conference, held in Malmö, Sweden from August 23rd to August 27th, 2010. Jim Clarke, David Dunning and Boris Militsyn attended as delegates, and presented work including details of recent progress on commissioning of the ALICE FEL, and modelling of advanced FEL schemes. Sue Waller also attended the conference as a member of the JACoW editing team. The programme covered experiences of using and operating current facilities such as the recently commissioned X-ray FEL, LCLS, together with proposals for future developments. There was an enjoyable social programme and a number of lively poster sessions providing plenty of opportunity for discussion, and there were many useful exchanges between members of ASTeC and other members of the field.
More information on the conference is available from http://fel2010.maxlab.lu.se/.
16 August 2010
First Beam on EMMA
On Monday 16th August at 1:03 am the 1st electron beam was successfully steered around the total circumference of the EMMA ring. Two complete turns were achieved, with beam detected on the third turn before the accelerator was switched off for the night at just after 3am. more here...
31 August 2010
