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February 9, 2018

CI paper amongst 2017 Physics of Plasma Highlights

‘Beam quality study for a grating-based dielectric laser-driven accelerator’, authored by CI researcher Yelong Wei et al, has been selected as one of the 20 most impactful articles by the…

January 28, 2018

CI pioneers novel media training for researchers

From 15th-19th January 2018, Fellows from the Cockcroft Institute-led AVA network attended a Media Training at one of the UK’s premium creative hubs, MediaCityUK. AVA is a new European Union-funded…

January 8, 2018

PhD project opportunities

Exciting PhD project opportunities covering a range of research areas are now available at the Cockcroft Institute. Detailed information about all projects can be found here.

The Fermilab Director Nigel Lockyer (right) being accompanied on his tour of Daresbury Laboratory by the Cockcroft Institute Director Peter Ratoff
December 20, 2017

Fermilab Director visits Daresbury Laboratory

The first project to be approved under a new bilateral UK-USA science and technology agreement is the DUNE-LBNF long baseline neutrino oscillations experiment at Fermilab in Chicago. £65m has been…

December 14, 2017

Implementing CERN Technology on X-ray FELs

The Cockcroft Institute is helping to apply advanced linac technology developed at CERN to design a new generation of compact X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), thanks to a €3 million project…

December 5, 2017

OMA School on Monte Carlo Simulations

The Optimization of Medical Accelerators (OMA) project, coordinated by Prof Carsten Welsch, member of the Cockcroft Institute and Head of the Liverpool Physics Department, held an international school on Monte Carlo…