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Devoted to the development and construction of particle accelerators and intense sources of radiation for pure and applied research.

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August 6, 2025

CLARA reaches 250 million electron volts milestone

The Cockroft Institute’s ASTeC team has achieved a major scientific milestone at Daresbury Laboratory. The Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications (CLARA) has successfully accelerated electrons to an energy of 250 million electron volts (MeV). This breakthrough marks a…
July 30, 2025

AWAKE-UK Collaboration Meets in Daresbury

Leading researchers from the AWAKE-UK collaboration met in Daresbury on 2nd July to review progress and chart the future of the UK’s contribution to the Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) at CERN. The meeting highlighted significant advancements…
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