Vacuum Science
The Vacuum Solutions Group is based at Daresbury Laboratory and is part of the UK’s Accelerator Science and Technology Centre, ASTeC.
Members of the group have a wide experience in the design and operation of large vacuum systems for particle accelerators. The Group’s main strengths lie in the development and use of advanced modelling techniques for vacuum system design and knowledge and understanding of specific particle accelerators vacuum problems as well as Ultra High and Extreme High vacuum technique. We use our skills both in the support and improvement of existing accelerator facilities and in the design and specification of new facilities.
The group is proud if it’s state of the art vacuum science laboratory and instrumentation laboratory. These laboratories are used to run an advanced programme of R&D as well as to provide the necessary vacuum facilities to underpin ASTeC programmes.
