Particle accelerators are behind some of the most spectacular scientific discoveries, and the reason why we know that matter consists of atoms, and that in turn atoms consist of electrons…
STFC and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have agreed to collaborate on building one of the world’s most powerful linear accelerators. Based at the US Department of Energy’s Fermilab, the Proton…
The Cockcroft Institute is delighted to announce that one of its senior members has been elected this year to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in recognition of…
Every year the Cockcroft Institute and the STFC public engagement team host our annual Accelerator & Particle Physics Masterclass at Daresbury Laboratory, an event which gives a wide ranging and…
Cockcroft Institute and Lancaster University Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dr John Scott, and co-investigators, Dr Elisabetta Boella (CI / Lancaster University), Dr Laura Corner (CI / University of Liverpool) and Dr…
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…