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May 2, 2025

Sun shines on exciting launch of “AI & EYES” outreach box

The future of medical technology was brought to life this weekend at the launch of the brand-new outreach box, AI & EYES, developed by the talented team at UK Unplugged…

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April 30, 2025

EuPRAXIA-DN Camp on Technologies held in Pisa

The EuPRAXIA Doctoral Network (EuPRAXIA-DN) held a two-day Camp on laser and plasma-related technologies, connecting the latest research and development results in these areas with the challenges related to their…

April 23, 2025

Making waves in electromagnetic technology

Cockcroft Institute scientists Graeme Burt and Laura Corner, from Lancaster University and the University of Liverpool respectively, together with former Cockcroft member Rebecca Seviour, now at the University of Huddersfield,…

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April 11, 2025

AEgIS transforms smartphone sensors into an unprecedented resolution antimatter camera

Did you know that the camera sensor in your smartphone could help unlock the secrets of antimatter? Scientists working together in the “Antihydrogen Experiment: Gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy” (AEgIS) developed a…

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April 9, 2025

EuPRAXIA selects ELI for second Laser-Driven Accelerator Site

EuPRAXIA is one of the Cockcroft Institute’s flagship projects in the field of novel accelerators.  Cockcroft partners STFC, the University of Liverpool and the University of Strathclyde are heavily involved…

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April 7, 2025

2025 Particle Physics Masterclass

On the 11th and 12th March, ASTeC and the Cockcroft institute hosted the annual Particle Physics Masterclass (PPMC) at Daresbury Laboratory, an event for A-level and GCSE students to give…

April 2, 2025

AI-Driven Particle Accelerators

We are delighted to announce that an article on “Artificial Intelligence for Advancing Particle Accelerators” was just published in Europhysics News. It describes how cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) and machine…

March 28, 2025

PACRI Project kicks off in Trieste

The new EU-funded project PACRI (Plasma Accelerator systems for Compact Research Infrastructures) started officially with a kick-off meeting in Trieste (Italy) on 12 – 14 March 2025. The €10 million…

March 24, 2025

Position-Reconstruction Methods for Beam Losses Measured with an oBLM at CLEAR

While the basic principles of particle accelerators may be simple, using electric fields to accelerate particles and magnetic fields to steer them, actually operating them is highly complex. Even small…