Daresbury Laboratory
Laboratory in Halton, Cheshire, England
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Description
Daresbury Laboratory carries out research in fields such as accelerator science, bio-medicine, physics, chemistry, materials, engineering and computational science. Its facilities are used by scientists and engineers, from both the university research community and industrial research base. The laboratory is based at Sci-Tech Daresbury.
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Facilities and research
- Accelerator science, including the Cockcroft Institute which houses scientists from STFC, University of Manchester, University of Liverpool, University of Lancaster, and University of Strathclyde. Accelerator science facilities include:
- VELA (Versatile Electron Linear Accelerator), an electron compact linear accelerator, based around an RF photocathode gun.
- CLARA (Compact Linear Accelerator for Research Applications), an electron linear accelerator to be used for research in free-electron lasers.
- FEBE (Full Energy Beam Exploitation), a beamline of CLARA designed for 2 GeV electron research.
- SuperSTEM, a national research facility for advanced electron microscopy. The facility belongs to EPSRC.
- The Hartree Centre, a high performance computing, data analytics and AI research facility.
- Scientific computing
- Nuclear physics
- Detector systems
- Superconducting Radio-Frequency Lab (SuRF Lab)
- Engineering Technology Centre
- Public engagement
- The University of Liverpool Virtual Engineering Centre
- PsiQuantum
Retired facilities
- NINA (Northern Institute's Nuclear Accelerator), an electron synchrotron; the first accelerator at the site.
- ALICE (Accelerators and Lasers In Combined Experiments), an electron accelerator previously known as ERLP (Energy Recovery Linac Prototype).
- EMMA (Electron Machine with Many Applications or Electron Model for Many Applications), a linear non-scaling FFAG accelerator.
- NSF (Nuclear Structure Facility), a tandem Van de Graaff accelerator housed in the tower.
- HPCx, a supercomputer (replaced by the UK national supercomputing service, HECToR, based in Edinburgh).
- Synchrotron Radiation Source (SRS)
Awards
In 2009 the laboratory was awarded the title of the "Most Outstanding Science Park" at the UK Science Parks Association.
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