Welcome to the Cockcroft Institute

1. Welcome tothe Cockcroft Institute http://www.lancs.ac.uk/cockcroft-institute/ John Dainton Director, Cockcroft Institute for Accelerator Science and Technology, and Sir James Chadwick Professor of Physics The University of Liverpool, GB

2. Science “Driver” global High Energy Physics “light fantastic” UK membership LCLS campus science driver ILC LHC SRS XFEL ESS ISIS ν-Factory neutrons DIAMOND

3. R&D Challenge global High Energy Physics “light” universal - MV/m - intensity - nm delivery LCLS ILC LHC XFEL Cockcroft Institute +UK plc ESS ν-Factory neutrons DIAMOND

4. Stakeholders + project funding = FTE + equipment core funding 13 FTE 0.5 FTE 4 FTE building 4 FTE Cockcroft Institute ~55 FTE +2 FTE in univ 4 FTE

5. Mission • CI “mission” is summarised in the following “deliverables”: • generic R&D in Accelerator Science and Technology (AST); • project specific R&D in AST • (e.g. a linear collider and a Neutrino Factory) • leadership and management of national deliverables to • international facilities (which may be UK-situated) • competence in crucial and specific technologies • technology transfer to industry • staff complement of internationally acknowledged expertise • seamless involvement of the HEI and CCLRC sectors • education and training to ensure a flourishing staff • supply side

6. Institute Board Director Advisory Committees Group Leader Lancaster Group Leader Liverpool Group Leader Manchester Group Leader ASTeC Management Committee Lancaster Projects Liverpool Projects Manchester Projects ASTeC Projects PM - Linear Collider Linear Collider PM - Neutrino Factory Neutrino Factory Management & Governance • Notes: • The Group Leaders are the line managers for staff in their groups. • The Programme Managers (PM) co-ordinate activities across the groups. • Solid lines indicate reporting lines. • Broken lines indicate information flows. • Additional programmes will be set up as required. • Activities in the groups will also include projects which are external to the Institute. light source neutrons nuclear physics

7. RC-UK Facilities  prioritisation to come (SR06/7) ? A EPSRC A EPSRC A EPSRC ! A EPSRC A PPARC A EPSRC ! A EPSRC A PPARC EPSRC science PPARC science A accelerator science and technology ! SNS (1 MW) from 2007 !JPARC (0.5 MW) from 2009/10 ?

8. Staff staff committing to the CI at foundation [1] Most ASTeC staff collaborate seamlessly with university staff. There are ASTeC projects which do not involve (yet) university staff.

9. Staff university faculty staff appointed to the CI [1] [1] Total university commitment is at least 9 new positions by 2008, at least 12 by 2009, plus 2 CCLRC-funded [2] 0.5 FTE with Institute of Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham

10. Staff university visiting staff at the CI [1]

11. Staff PDRA at September 2006 core PPARC CI resource [1] [1]PPARC core funding rises to plateau at 12 PDRA in post. [2] Perlick is funded for four years by a combination of CI core resource and Lancaster University resource, the latter released following the award of an EPSRC Fellowship to Professor Robin Tucker.

12. PDRA Staff: Project

13. PDRA Staff: Project

14. PG Students [1] AST = Accelerator Science and Technology [2] employed as RA, University of Lancaster [3] registered part-time

15. PG Students

16. PG Students UG Students [1] AST = Accelerator Science and Technology [2] employed as RA, University of Lancaster [3] registered part-time

17. The Cockcroft Institute  unique, seamless, collaboration of established research excellence in NW England  seamless  senior + junior scientists + students now 55 FTE “faculty” + pdocs + students now 51 FTE  seamless synergy of basic science engineering and technology industry UK inward investment - science  people, skills, innovation, progress - high-tech  industrial production - economic development (national + regional)

18. The Cockcroft Institute  why here in NW England ? - Daresbury  accelerator-lead research univs Liverpool Lancaster Manchester Nuclear Physics (since Rutherford !) High Energy Physics (since Chadwick !) Synchrotron Radiation science (since SRF 1970s) - all require new accelerator systems for progress - all have been on Daresbury campus in their time Cockcroft/Walton experience 70 years on “… they were fortunate to have the support of Metropolitan Vickers: … the Manchester company.” B Cathcart in “The Fly in the Cathedral”

19. Strategy for “Mission” strategic statement: Cockcroft 06-17-brd • the importance and impact of the work underway at the moment • the range of topics in the work underway at the moment • the degree to which certain activities should be further expanded, or contracted, or even stopped • omissions in the scope of work to date and planned (as presented by speakers and more generally in the strategy statement) • the degree to which present work positions the Institute to meet its “mission”, in particular items 1, 2 and 3, and in particular their relative weights • how the remaining recruitment should be handled in the light of any or all of 1 through 5 above, e g the degree to which appointments should be made with specific expertise. - strategic statement  “on-site” systems ?

20. Concerns • project funds from PPARC/CCLRC ? • 2. sc+warm RF R&D and UK strategy • → global collaboration ? • 3. studentships ? • 4. move to prototyping and “hands-on” ? • 5. publication ?

21. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/cockcroft-institute/ Sir John Cockcroft FRS b. Todmorden (Lancashire and Yorkshire!) ed. Manchester University: Maths Manchester College of Technology (UMIST): Elec. Eng. Metropolitan-Vickers, Manchester PhD then post-doc, Cambridge Univ. Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1951