Daresbury Laboratory is a scientific research laboratory near Daresbury

Daresbury

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 in Cheshire

Cheshire

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, England

England

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, which began operations in 1962 and was officially opened on 16 June 1967 as the Daresbury Nuclear Physics Laboratory by the then Prime Minister of United Kingdom, Harold Wilson

Harold Wilson

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. It is run by the Science and Technology Facilities Council

Science and Technology Facilities Council

The Science and Technology Facilities Council is a UK government body that carries out civil research in science and engineering, and funds UK research in areas including particle physics, nuclear physics, space science and astronomy .-History:It was formed in April 2007 as a merger of the Particle...

 with around three hundred full-time staff.

Projects

• The Synchrotron Radiation Source
  Synchrotron Radiation Source
  The Synchrotron Radiation Source at the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire, England was the first second-generation synchrotron radiation source to produce X-rays...
  
   (SRS), now shut and in the process of being decommissioned.
• HPCx
  HPCx
  HPCx was a supercomputer located at the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire, England. The supercomputer was maintained by the HPCx Consortium, UoE HPCX Ltd, which was led by the University of Edinburgh: EPCC, with the Science and Technology Facilities Council and IBM. The project was funded by EPSRC...
  
  , a supercomputer.
• ALICE (accelerator)
  ALICE (accelerator)
  Accelerators and Lasers In Combined Experiments , or Energy Recovery Linac Prototype is a project to build a 35MeV energy recovery linac at Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire, England...
  
  , an electron accelerator previously known as ERLP (Energy Recovery Linac Prototype).
• EMMA (accelerator)
  EMMA (accelerator)
  The Electron Machine with Many Applications is a project at Daresbury Laboratory in the UK to build a linear non-scaling FFAG to accelerate electrons from 10 to 20 MeV. A FFAG is a type of accelerator in which the magnetic field in the bending magnets is constant during acceleration...
  
   an electron accelerator experiment.
• The New Light Source, a project which has evolved from the previous 4GLS
  4GLS
  The 4GLS was a proposed 4th Generation Light Source, based at the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire, England, intended to combine energy recovery linac and free electron laser technologies to provide synchronised sources of synchrotron radiation and free electron laser radiation covering the...
  
   project.
• MEIS
  Meis
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  , a medium energy ion scattering facility, used to perform depth profiling and quantitative surface structure determination experiments (situated in the tower complex visible in the photo).
• The national centre for electron spectroscopy and surface analysis (NCESS), which has a high-resolution x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy machine to probe near-surface chemical composition.
• SuperSTEM, a high resolution aberration-corrected STEM.

Awards

In 2009 the laboratory was awarded the title of the "Most Outstanding Science Park" at the UK Science Parks Association.

See also

• Alec Merrison
  Alec Merrison
  Sir Alexander Walter Merrison FRS, was a British physicist born in Wood Green, London on 20 March 1924. He was a professor in Experimental Physics at Liverpool University and the first Director of the new Daresbury Nuclear Physics Laboratory...
  
   Daresbury Laboratory's first director
• Cockcroft Institute
  Cockcroft Institute
  The Cockcroft Institute is an international centre for Accelerator Science and Technology in the UK. It was proposed in September 2003 and officially opened in September 2006. It is a joint venture of Lancaster University, the University of Liverpool, the University of Manchester, the Science and...
  
   International centre for accelerator science and technology at Daresbury Laboratory
• Van de Graaff generator
  Van de Graaff generator
  A Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic generator which uses a moving belt to accumulate very high voltages on a hollow metal globe on the top of the stand. It was invented in 1929 by American physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff. The potential differences achieved in modern Van de Graaff...
  
   The former Nuclear Structure Facility at Daresbury was based on a Van de Graaff accelerator
• Arthur Dooley
  Arthur Dooley
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   The Laboratory has a piece 'Splitting of the Atom', unveiled in 1971 constructed from magnetic steel and two 37 inch pole tips taken from the first cyclotron
  Cyclotron
  In technology, a cyclotron is a type of particle accelerator. In physics, the cyclotron frequency or gyrofrequency is the frequency of a charged particle moving perpendicularly to the direction of a uniform magnetic field, i.e. a magnetic field of constant magnitude and direction...
  
  to operate outside the USA.

External links

• Daresbury Laboratory
• The Science and Technology Facilities Council
• Synchrotron Radiation Source
• Accelerator Science and Technology Centre
• 4GLS - the proposed Fourth Generation Light Source