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NIRNS Committee papers

Confusingly, the NIRNS Governing Board papers and minutes have been given very similar numbering formats.

1958
NI/63/22 (reissued): The Financing of University Experimental Work at the Rutherford Laboratory (Original 14 November 1958; amended 16 January 1959; this version issued with NI/63/12)
1960
NI(60)1: Reactors for universities: Interim report by the British Reactor Committee (February 1960) NI/60/11: Procedure for making permanent Research Appointments (2 June 1960)
1961
NI/61/2 and NI/PC/61/2: A 4 GeV Electron Synchrotron -- A proposal from the Physics Committee (9 and 22 February 1961) NI/61/3: Membership of Committees (22 February 1961) NI/61/4: University reactors (22 February 1961) NI/61/5: ATLAS Computer Proposal (22 February 1961) NI/61/6: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (1961, otherwise undated) NI/61/7: Common Seal as sketched by the Secretary WW Woodall (22 February 1961) NI/61/8: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (16 May 1961) NI/61/9: 4 GeV Electron Synchrotron (9 May 1961) NI/61/10: Proposed Helium Bubble Chamber (16 May 1961) NI/61/11: The ATLAS Computer Laboratory (10 May 1961) NI/61/12: Suggested membership of the Computer Committee (15 May 1961) NI/61/13: Financial powers of the GPC (15 May 1961) NI/61/14: Use of existing reactors for university research in physics (17 May 1961) NI/61/16: A 4 GeV Electron Synchrotron -- Revised paper (26 June 1961) NI/61/17: Management and staffing policy for the proposed Electron Synchrotron Laboratory (26 June 1961) NI/61/19: Draft annual report and accounts (July 1961) NI/61/20: Future expenditure by the NIRNS (29 August 1961) NI/61/21: Appointment of the Head of the Atlas Computer Laboratory (26 October 1961) NI/61/23: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (24 November 1961) NI/61/24: Working party on the Electron Laboratory -- Siting (21 November 1961) NI/61/26: Comparison of CERN expenditure and NIRNS Forecasts (27 November 1961)
1962
NI/62/1: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (27 February 1962) NI/62/2: Five-year Financial Forecast 1963/64 to 1967/68 (February 1962, addendum 20 March 1962) NI/62/5: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (11 May 1962) NI/62/6: Initial action on the Electron Laboratory (12 July 1962; includes suggestion that it is called the Thomson High Energy Laboratory); addendum Draft Press Statement (16 July 1962) NI/62/7: Letter from the Minister of Science concerning the Electron Laboratory (16 July 1962) NI/62/8: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (10 October 1962) NI/62/9: Progress with the Electron Laboratory (10 October 1962) NI/62/10: Proposed transfer of the National Hydrogen Bubble Chamber from the DSIR to the Institute (9 October 1962) NI/62/11: Duties of the Secretary (9 October 1962) NI/62/12: Theoretical Physicists at the NIRNS (18 October 1962; Letter from Prof Peierls to Prof Flowers concerning theoretical physicists on the staff) NI/62/13: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (29 November 1962) NI/62/14: Progress with the Electron Laboratory (30 November 1962) NI/62/15: Committees for the Electron Laboratory (30 November 1962) NI/62/16: The rate of construction of the Electron Laboratory (30 November 1962)
1963
NI/63/1: Membership of Committees (15 March 1963) NI/63/3: Progress at the Electron Laboratory (19 March 1963) NI/63/4: Financial Forecasts 1964/65 to 1968/79 -- Reconciliation statements and Amendment (15 March and 14 May 1963) NI/63/5: Annual Report 1962/63 (18 March 1963) NI/63/6: Buildings at the Electron Laboratory (23 March 1963) NI/63/7: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (8 July 1963) NI/63/8: Progress at the Electron Laboratory (4 July 1963) NI/63/9: European Accelerator Proposal: The future High Energy Physics Programme of Europe -- Report of a Working Party appointed by the DSIR/NIRNS Joint Consultative Panel for Nuclear Research at its meeting of 6th March 1963 ("The Flowers Report", 10 June 1963) NI/63/10: Submission and acknowledgement of the Five-Year Expenditure Forecast. Copies of letters between Lords Hailsham and Bridges (21 June 1963; also 22 May and 11 June) NI/63/11: DSIR Report of the Working Party on Nuclear Structure Research SECOND DRAFT (21 June 1963) NI/63/11: Proposals for Nuclear Structure Research -- Note by the Secretary concerning letter from C Jolliffe (5 and 10 December 1963) NI/63/12: The Financing of University Experimental Work at Institute Laboratories (21 June 1963; refers to NI/58/22) NI/63/13: Rutherford Laboratory Budget 1963/64 (8 July 1963) NI/63/14: Report on the Institute's Financial Situation and Estimates (23 October 1963) NI/63/15: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (23 October 1963) NI/63/17: Comments on the Expenditure of the Rutherford Laboratory and comparison with CERN (JB Adams and JM Cassels, ?1 October 1963) NI/63/18: Estimate of Expenditure 1964/65 and Forecast Estimates 1965/66 and 1966/67; Appendix: The NIRNS Programme for 1964/65 (October 1963) NI/63/19: Report of the Robbins Committee -- Covering note by the Secretary (23 October 1963) NI/63/21: A High Flux Reactor for Solid State Research (21 October 1963) NI/63/22: The naming of the Electron Laboratory (17? October 1963; Daresbury Nuclear Physics Laboratory was recommended) NI/63/23: The Trend Committee's Report as it affects the NIRNS (28 November 1963) NI/63/24: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (December 1963) NI/63/25: Progress at the Daresbury Laboratory (2 December 1963)
1964
NI/64/1: Suggested imbalance between the support of Nuclear and Non-nuclear Research in the Universities; letter from C Jolliffe (30 January 1964, 5 December 1963) NI/64/2: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (10 March 1964) NI/64/4: Review of the Institute's programme, note by John Cockcroft (3 March 1964) NI/64/6: Five-year forecast of expenditure and staff numbers 1965-70 (5 March 1964) NI/64/7: Progress at the Rutherford Laboratory (15 September 1964) NI/64/11: Recommendations by the Physics Committee concerning Bubble Chamber film analysis equipment, notes by John Cockcroft, JAV Willis, LB Mullett (11 September 1964) NI/64/12: Working Party on computers for Nuclear Physics, note by BH Flowers (1 September 1964) NI/64/13: NIRNS Financial agreements with universities, note by AW Merrison and TG Pickavance (1 September 1964) NI/64/14: Forecast expenditure of the Rutherford Laboratory 1964/65 and comparison with CERN 1964 (11 September 1964) NI/64/15: High Flux Neutron Source -- Report of meeting held on 3rd July 1964, papers from Cockcroft, Lomer, Vick, Mitchell (28 October 1964)
1965
NI/65/1: The future organisation for nuclear physics (28 January 1965) NI/65/3: Residual items of business (1 February 1965)

NI-57-01 Belgrave Square, London (2 March 1957) NI-57-02 Treasury Buildings, Whitehall (17 May 1957) NI-57-03 Treasury Buildings, Whitehall (19 July 1957) NI-57-04 Treasury Buildings, Whitehall (30 September 1957) NI-57-05 Treasury Buildings, Whitehall (12 November 1957) NI-58-01 Treasury Buildings, Whitehall (28 January 1958) NI-58-02 Treasury Buildings, Whitehall (1 April 1958) NI-58-03 Treasury Buildings, Whitehall (13 June 1958) NI-58-04 Treasury Buildings, Whitehall (3 October 1958) NI-59-01 Treasury Buildings, Whitehall (16 January 1959) NI-59-02 Treasury Buildings, Whitehall (20 April 1959) NI-59-03 Including NI-GP-59-03, Treasury Buildings, Whitehall (29 July 1959) NI-59-04 Treasury Buildings, Whitehall (20 November 1959)
More to come

1957
Minutes of the Northern Universities Accelerator Group meeting held in Liverpool (17 December 1957) Proposal for Northern Site for National Institute for Nuclear Physics and covering note from Skinner; includes a third-angle projection of the site for a 3 BeV Spiral Ridge Cyclotron (20 December 1957)
1958
Minutes of Northern Universities Accelerator Group meeting held in Birmingham (6 August 1958) Letter from Lesley Mullett to Prof Skinner reporting on the DESY accelerator (5 September 1958)
1959
Draft proposal for a second, northern site for NIRNS including siting, advisory committee and possible characteristics of the accelerator (undated but refers to four meetings of some northern accelerator committee) High Energy Electron Linear Accelerator (talk given at National Institute Accelerator Symposium by JC Gunn, Glasgow, July 1959)
1960
Proposed accelerator developments at Glasgow (anonymous but assumed to be John Gunn; undated so unclear whether this is paper no.5 for the meeting on 16th March) Working Party on Future Accelerator Policy (Agenda for meeting to be held in Liverpool on 16 March 1960) Further accelerators in the UK (Mullett, Paper no.1, 16 March 1960) Notes on AG Proton Synchrotrons (Hine, Paper no.2, 16 March 1960) Some factors in high intensity beams (Galbraith and Morgan, Paper no.3, 16 March 1960) The possibility of neutrino experiments (Salam and Matthews, Paper no.4, 16 March 1960) A note on the extension of the Rutherford Laboratory Proton Linear Accelerator (Stafford, Paper no.6, 16 March 1960) Working Party on future accelerator policy (ToR and notes from Stafford, 16 March 1960) Remarks from M Snowden (for meeting on 16 March 1960) Minutes of Working Party on Future Accelerator Policy held in Liverpool (27 and 28 March 1960) Working Party on Electron Accelerator in GeV Energy Range (Papers and minutes for meeting at Liverpool including note on Storage Rings by Rutherglen, production and use of annihilation beams by Binnie and K+ Electroproduction by Williams, 28 September 1960)

Notes for initial allocation of machine time for experiments on Nimrod (includes table for comparison of requirements, 15 August 1963) Note from Taylor to Stafford concerning recent accelerator developments (4 September 1963) Outline of Nimrod commissioning programme compiled from Nimrod commissioning meeting no.45 (9 September 1963) Initial HEP program for Nimrod: Notes for Experiments Committee from standpoint of Machine Operations (Note from Hobbis; Outline of Nimrod commissioning and recommended scheduling policy to December 1964; 10 September 1963)

NI(GP)(59)35 Proposed Heavy Liquid Bubble Chamber (Note by the Secretary, 9 October 1959) NI/GP/60/42 General Purposes Committee: Bubble Chamber Plant Room (19 September 1960) NI/GP/64/3 General Purposes Committee: Effect of university expansion on Rutherford Laboratory budgets (Pickavance, 24 January 1964)

1950s
Notes on the Bubble Chamber meeting (20 September 1957) Minutes of the British National Hydrogen Bubble Chamber Working Party at Birmingham University (2 May 1958); notes on auxiliary equipment (13 October 1958) NEPC/M/1 Minutes of a meeting to discuss Hydrogen Bubble Chamber Services (10 June 1959) HL 59/8268 Nuclear Equipment Project Committee (Terms of reference by LB Mullett, 19 November 1959)
1960s
Memo regarding Treasury approval for Hydrogen Bubble Chamber Services (24 November 1960) DSIR Grant for construction of a Large Hydrogen Bubble Chamber: Statement of expenditure (23 March 1961) NI/PC/61/4 Assessors report on the Clarendon Laboratory proposal for the construction of a Helium Bubble Chamber (8 May 1961) Track analysis work (Note by M Snowden, 13 July 1961) Data reduction for Bubble Chambers (Technical note and covering memo from Pickavance, 17 April 1962) HeMCM/1 Minutes of the first meeting held at Rutherford Laboratory (30 May 1962) Track analysis work at the Rutherford Laboratory (Technical note, 3 October 1962) Meeting concerning Saclay Bubble Chamber (Minutes, 14 April 1964) Saclay 82cm Liquid Hydrogen Bubble Chamber (Technical note, 1964) N-01-64 French Bubble Chamber comes to the Rutherford Laboratory (Press Release, 1964) Precision CRT device for track analysis (Technical note, 30 March 1965) Bubble Chamber Group Meetings: Progress meetings on BC installation and progress meetings on BC operation (3 November 1965) Minutes of New Bubble Chamber Design Studies meeting (12 November 1965) NEPC/Part III/M30 Minutes and appendices of the final meeting of the Heavy Liquid Bubble Chamber Section of the Nuclear Equipment Project Committee at RL (25 November 1965) NEPC/Part III/M31 Minutes of the Heavy Liquid Bubble Chamber Section of the Nuclear Equipment Project Committee at RL (25 November 1965) Minutes of New Bubble Chamber Design Studies meeting (6 December 1965) NP.6(66) Heavy Liquid Bubble Chamber: Completion of Project (6 January 1966) Minutes of New Bubble Chamber Design Studies meeting (11 January 1966) HeMCP/44 Helium Bubble Chamber Project N45/4/15 Financial Statement for period 1 July 1962 - 30 June 1966 (7 July 1966) HeMC/13 Minutes of the final meeting held at Rutherford Laboratory (27 April 1967) NP.60(67) Completion of Helium Bubble Chamber Project (24 May 1967) Minutes of Track Chamber Panel (6 November 1967) HeMCP/43 Helium Bubble Chamber Management Committee: Progress Report (28 June 1968) HLBC Progress (top-level timetable, 1968)
1970s
Data on bubble chamber operations (Note from M Snowden, Technology Division, 11 February 1977)

NI/PC/60/05: Electron Accelerator in GeV Energy Range: Report of the Working Party (21 November 1960) NI/PC/61/02 A 4 GeV Electron Synchrotron: A proposal from the Physics Committee (Draft, 9 February 1961) Minutes of the first meeting of the High Energy Physics Committee (R1 Conference Room, 7 May 1963)

Minutes of the first meeting (22 January 1960) Minutes of Rutherford Laboratory Steering Committee (3 February 1960)

NI/V/60 Minutes of the meeting held at RHEL (11 November 1960)

Letters between Quinton Hogg and Lord Bridges as given to Senior Staff Forum (21 October 1964 from October/November 1963) Confidential note from ACWV Clarke to Pickavance concerning the move from NIRNS to SRC Confidential notes on NIRNS/SRC (Gerry Pickavance, undated but assumed to be late 1964/early 1965) Resources of Research Councils (29 March 1968) Department of Engineering Science (Note from M Snowden on the revised structure of the Department, 21 June 1971)

Finance Sub committee: Financial procedures (as at 17 January 1969) Financial procedures: VAT (22 June 1973)

Membership of the Governing Body of the NIRNS (one page from a longer document) List of Senior Staff and positions (part of a longer document, very early 1960s because it includes JJ Wilkins who died in a car accident on 17 October 1962) The National Institute for Research in Nuclear Science (Draft of part of a book chapter or paper; undated but mentions Nimrod under construction so very early 1960s) Letter from Stafford to Cockcroft concerning Accelerator Working Party meetings for the second national laboratory (29 February 1960) Minutes of the First Ordinary Meeting of the Housing Committee in Mr Snowden's office, R1 (2 March 1961) Slightly edited transcript of the Joint Consultative Panel for Nuclear Research meeting held at Imperial College to discuss plans for a new high energy machine at CERN and its impact on British science (6 March 1963) Minutes of the third Joint Consultative Panel for Nuclear Research meeting held at Imperial College (6 March 1963) RLN.3 Rutherford Laboratory Notice no.3: Radiation protection at the Rutherford Laboratory (22 March 1960) Memo: Christmas celebrations (12 December 1962) Memo: Distribution of notices and circulars (28 December 1962) Memo: Vehicle Identity Labels (10 May 1963)

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