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Further reading ⇓

NIRNS
□ The beginning of NIRNS
□ NIRNS Charter
□ Committee papers
SRC/SERC
□ Committee papers
□ Council publications
Rutherford Laboratory
□ Laboratory Meetings
□ Evolution of site
□ Architects drawings and artwork
□ Brochures and annual reports
□ Technical publications
□ Newsletters
□ 'Bulletin' newsletter
□ Open days
□ Photograph albums and slides

Technical literature: Overview

Electronics research for the Rutherford Laboratory (1960, TG Pickavance and EH Cooke-Yarborough). A proposal for a joint AERE/NIRNS computer; this was later over-taken by the Ferranti Atlas

AMPTE: Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers (1984) Apparition of a man-made comet... on Christmas Day - before sunrise - in the constellation of Virgo (1984, brochure produced by the German AMPTE partners) Ion release experiments in the solar wind (1985, D Bryant, RAL-85-094) Selected papers from John Harries' AMPTE files (1984-1985)

The Proton Linear Accelerator: A survey (February 1967)

1950s
Paper expressing concern at the performance of the Nimrod(?) GGT and problems with the klystrons (unsigned and undated but refers to second klystron possibly arriving June 1959) Note reporting on the status of the klystron (23 September 1958) The 7GeV proton synchrotron (Paper from Nuclear Engineering, April 1959)
1960s
Background on the history of accelerators since 1945 leading to the establishment of the Rutherford Laboratory (Author unknown, 1960?) British National Hydrogen Bubble Chamber: Note to editors (22 February 1963) The first operation of Nimrod to full energy (A day-by-day account by Lesley Mullett of operations in August leading to design energy for the first time, 20 September 1963) Nimrod: A 7 GeV Proton Synchrotron (Part 1, NIRL/R/44, March 1965. Edited by BG Loach and B Southworth, the intention was that Part One of this document would address technical aspects of the accelerator, Part Two the research aspects. Part Two was never produced however.) Section 1: Introduction Section 2: Computation and theoretical work Section 3: Injection system Section 4: Magnet and associated systems Section 5: Magnet power supply Section 6: R. F. System Section 7: Extraction systems and internal targets Section 8: Vacuum system Section 9: Control system Section 10: Ancillary plant Section 11: Operation Nimrod Maintenance Handbook: Introduction to magnet (DA Gray, May 1965) Nimrod Maintenance Handbook: Introduction to the Injection System (F Horrocks, June 1966)
1970s
EPIC Country Meeting (11 January 1973, Introduction and slides to a staff(?) talk about the proposed EPIC synchrotron and its links with both NINA and CERN) A note of the Five Year Forward Look (GH Stafford, 5 April 1974, Issues surrounding the funding or otherwise of the proposed EPIC synchrotron) Supplementary papers to the Five Year Forward Look (24 June 1974, A selection of papers about the proposed EPIC synchrotron including its place as an international project, comparison with CERN and other facilities, finance, and the future of both NINA and Nimrod) Proposal for a Spallation Neutron Facility (1976; the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) was later renamed ISIS)
1980s
Nuclear physics in the UK 1911-1986 (WE Burcham, Rep. Prog. Phys. 52 (1989) 823-879)
1990s
Early British synchrotrons: An informal history (JD Lawson, February 1997, RAL report RAL-TR-97-011)

The genesis of Titania and its conversion to a grant-funded project (MH Key, 12 April 1996)

A Phase-Correcting Servo-System for the Linear Accelerator at Hammersmith Hospital (1953, Metropolitan Vickers Research Report) The 4MeV "Orthotron" Linear Accelerator for X-ray Therapy (1954, Metropolitan Vickers Scientific Apparatus Sales Dept) A history of RAL (Author and date unknown but context indicates that this was written by a Library student in about 1981) The deep space network (1988, NASA brochure) The new synchrotron (2000, announcement of what became the Diamond Light Source)

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