The Cockcroft Institute

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

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September 27, 2023

Breakthrough in understanding gravitational effects on antimatter

In a paper published today in Nature, the ALPHA collaboration at CERN’s Antimatter Factory shows that, within the precision of their experiment, atoms of antihydrogen – a positron orbiting an antiproton – fall to Earth in the same way as their matter equivalents. Aerial view…
September 13, 2023

CI physicists involved in Muon g-2 experiment

An international team of scientists have carried out the most precise measurement ever of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. The results could point to the existence of yet unobserved particles and flaws in the Standard Model of particle…
August 25, 2023

Cockcroft expert appointed as STFC Council member

A leading University of Liverpool researcher has been appointed to the Council of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Professor Carsten P Welsch, Head of Liverpool’s Accelerator Science cluster based at the Cockcroft Institute, who has also been leading…
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The Cockcroft Institute is a partnership between the universities of Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester and Strathclyde and the Science and Technology Facilities Council, devoted to the development and construction of particle accelerators and intense sources of radiation for pure and applied research.

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