The director of the Cockcroft Institute, Prof Peter Ratoff, announced the winners of the first Cockcroft Institute Early Career Excellence Awards as Dr Paul Scherkl (University of Strathclyde) and Dr…
Cockcroft lecturer Dr Laura Corner, together with University of Liverpool student Cara Hawkins, have been awarded the Rutherford Plasma Physics Communications Prize for their episode on the podcast The Liverpool…
The ALPHA collaboration at CERN has succeeded in cooling down antihydrogen atoms – the simplest form of atomic antimatter – using laser light. The technique, known as laser cooling, was…
News media around the world have been inundated with reports of a recent discovery in Fermilab which could hint to a new revolution in physics. Much-anticipated data from the…
Particle accelerators use up huge amounts of energy, with CERN currently using 10% of the electricity in the Geneva region. The next generation of particle accelerators for high energy physics…
In this new series of ‘Spotlight Interviews’ we have asked our PhD students a few questions to give you a more personal insight into work, motivation and challenges of our…
A new book written by four staff members at the Cockcroft institute has just been released last year by CRC press. The Science and Technology of Particle Accelerators provides an accessible introduction to…
EuPRAXIA marks centenary of Bruno Touschek, Father of Colliders, with a challenge to visionaries 100 years after the birth of the ‘father of colliders’ Bruno Touschek, and sixty years after…
The Cockcroft Institute (CI), a partnership between the Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester and Strathclyde, and the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC), has been awarded more than £11 million…