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Photographs from trips to the UK's Daresbury

Synchrotron Radiation Source (SRS)
Craning the spectrometer into position at the SRS, Daresbury, (UK).


Post-graduate students who have worked on the project: Graham Richmond, Gareth Bagley and Jim Wightman.These students have all gone on to obtain good jobs with various kinds of employers:  Management with Proctor and Gamble, Software Consultancy,and Medical Physics.
 


Dr Slobodan Cvejanovic, formerly of the University of Belgrade,
analysing the data "on-line" at Daresbury.
Tim Reddish working at the Daresbury Synchrotron Radiation Source....and surviving on black coffee!

Although most of these pictures were taken at Daresbury, most of the time is spent at the home University - which was Newcastle University . Typically, we obtain two periods of beamtime per year, each lasting ~3weeks. That time is quite intensive as the facility endeavours to operate 24 hours per day,7 days a week. Therefore, everything must work - and keep working - over that time scale. As systems get more complex, there is a lot that can go wrong! After a sucessful "run" we repair and develop the apparatus, process and analyse the data, and then publish the results.