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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
□ Technical publications
□ Newsletters
□ Bulletin newsletter
□ Open days
□ Photograph albums and slides

Technical literature: Overview

RHEL First Annual Report (August 1958) RHEL Second Annual Report (1958-1959) RHEL Third Annual Report (1959-1960) RHEL Fourth Annual Report (1960-1961) RHEL Fifth Annual Report (1961-1962) RHEL and Daresbury Nuclear Physics Laboratory Sixth Annual Report (1962-1963) NIRNS Seventh Annual Report (1963-1964) The work of the Rutherford Laboratory (October 1964-December 1965) The work of the Rutherford Laboratory (1966) The work of the Rutherford Laboratory (1967) The work of the Rutherford Laboratory (1968) The work of the Rutherford Laboratory (1969) The work of the Rutherford Laboratory (1970) The work of the Rutherford Laboratory (1971) The work of the Rutherford Laboratory (1972) The work of the Rutherford Laboratory (1973) The work of the Rutherford Laboratory (1974) The work of the Rutherford Laboratory (1975) The work of the Rutherford Laboratory (1976) CLRC Annual Report (1988-1989)

The Rutherford High Energy Laboratory (January 1962) Safety Yearbook (1967) How to reach Rutherford Laboratory (1970s) Rutherford Laboratory (Brochure, 1977) The Rutherford Laboratory past and present (Rutherford Laboratory monograph by Jim Valentine from a paper presented to the first meeting of the Rutherford Laboratory Establishment Committee in April 1977, published 1978) Welcome to Rutherford Laboratory (May 1979) In search of tomorrow (1980s) Electronics opportunities at RAL (1980s) The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory 1957-1982 / A study submitted for the Degree of Batchelor (sic) of Arts in Librarianship (Cathy Costain, Autumn 1982) Working at RAL (October 1982) (Includes organisational structure, description of work and facilities for staff) How to reach Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (1983) The Coseners House (1980s) Working with schools (1980s) Working at RAL (1984) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (1990s) Introducing CLRC (1995) RAL Safety Handbook (2002) ISIS 2005: 20 years of excellence (2005 calendar)

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 The Atlas Computer Laboratory (1962) The Atlas Computer Laboratory (1969) The Atlas Computer Laboratory (1973) The story of Atlas: a computer (1973, Stinson) (The story of the Atlas computer at London) SRC Interactive Computing Facility (September 1979) Computing at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (1985) Informatics at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (1987) SERC/DTI Transputer Initiative (1988) Atlas Centre Computing Services (c.1990) SERC Office Systems Newsletter (Bi-monthly newsletter for users of SERC Office Systems, Issue 1, August 1990) Theory and Computational Science (1991) Atlas Computing Services (1992) Atlas Computing Services (1993) Atlas Computing Services (1994) Atlas Video Facility (1994) Atlas@50 (2014, exhibition brochure) Atlas@50: Then and now (2019, second edition)

Space research at Rutherford and Appleton Laboratories (c.1979/1980) The James Clerk Maxwell telescope (1980s) The James Clerk Maxwell telescope (1980s) STARLINK (Image processing and data reduction facilities for the UK astronomical community, 1980s) The universe and man (1981) The cosmos from space (1984) Astronomy, Space and Radio Board at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (1985) Space Science Research at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (1987) Examining Earth (1992) Poster for the Cassini-Huygens Mission (Launch date 15 October 1997) The 15th anniversary of the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) (1983-1998) RAL Space: Developments in space science and technology (2007) The Express Mission to Mars (2007) Science driven, technology enabled (2015)

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 7GeV proton synchrotron (Paper from Nuclear Engineering, April 1959) Background on the history of accelerators since 1945 leading to the establishment of the Rutherford Laboratory (Author unknown, 1960?) RHEL 50 MeV Proton Linear Accelerator (1960s) NIRNS 7 GeV Proton Synchrotron (1960s) British National Hydrogen Bubble Chamber: Note to editors (22 February 1963) Nimrod 7 GeV Proton Synchrotron (c.1965, brochure) 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) 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) Nimrod: 7GeV proton synchrotron (January 1974) Proposal for a Spallation Neutron Facility (1976; the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) was later renamed ISIS) The use of high energy machines in particle physics (Rutherford Laboratory monograph of a talk given by Godfrey Stafford at Lancaster University in September 1976, published 1977) Proceedings of NIMROD commemoration evening held at the Rutherford Laboratory (27 June 1978) Experimental particle physics (CJS Damerall, 1981) Neutron beam research at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (1983) Neutron scattering research at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (1985) Atoms, Particles, Leptons and Quarks (A Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Monograph, 1986) The DELPHI Solenoid (1988) Nuclear physics in the UK 1911-1986 (WE Burcham, Rep. Prog. Phys. 52 (1989) 823-879) Synchrotron Radiation Research (1990) Probing particles (1996) The brilliance of X-rays (1996) Using neutrons (1996) ATOMS: Getting into materials (1993) Early British synchrotrons: An informal history (JD Lawson, February 1997, RAL report RAL-TR-97-011) TS2 News (ISIS Target Station 2, May 2005) Particle physics -- it matters (2009, A forward look at UK research into the building blocks of the Universe and its impact on society)

Dark green album of some very faded photographs of ELF (c.1978) Central Laser Facility brochure (c.1985) Laser Research at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (1985) Laser research at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (1987) From Terawatts to Femtoseconds: Laser Research at the SERC Central Laser Facility / Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (1988) ATOMS: The power of lasers (1993) COBWEB: Titania Control Software User Manual (Edwin Divall, 1994) High Power Laser Facilities for European Researchers (c.1995) Spotlight on lasers (1996) The genesis of Titania and its conversion to a grant-funded project (MH Key, 12 April 1996) Astra (c.1997) Facts FBU newsletter: Astra Gemini takes aim... and fires! (Autumn 2007) Lasers in our lives: 50 years of impact (2010) Central Laser Facility: 40 years in pictures (2017, this is the second edition 2019)

Superconductivity and its applications (Rutherford Laboratory monograph by Martin N Wilson, 1979) Digital Radiography (Instrumentation Division, 1980s) Engineering at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (1985) Energy Research Unit (JH Bass and JT White, December 1987) Central Microstructure Facility (1997/8)

Daresbury Nuclear Physics Laboratory (brochure, 1970s) Daresbury Laboratory (brochure, 1970s)

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) The deep space network (1988, NASA brochure) The new synchrotron (2000, announcement of what became the Diamond Light Source)

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