The HL-LHC project to increase the luminosity of the LHC met a key milestone this week when the first prototype crab cavity cryomodule for SPS was completed. The cavities included…
The IET held its Particle Accelerator Engineering Network meeting in Birmingham on the 27th October. This network brings together engineers working on particle accelerators in Universities, National Laboratories and Industry.…
The Cockcroft Institute has recently been awarded funding for a new doctoral training centre from STFC which had its first kick-off meeting on the 8th November. The Accelerators for Security,…
Twice Nobel Prize winner celebrated on Marie Curie Day 7th November 2017 “I think Marie Skłodowska-Curie represents courage; she was able to overcome all these challenges and to pursue something…
The Cockcroft Institute is delivering a brand-new exhibit to give blind and partially sighted people throughout the UK the opportunity to experience the amazing science of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Tactile Collider…
The University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University have been awarded £1million for a new Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in data intensive science (LIVDAT). The award is part…
The QUASAR Group, based at the Cockcroft Institute, and its international partners are going to celebrate the 150th birth anniversary of Marie Skłodowska–Curie, an outstanding researcher and woman inspiring generations…
Dr William Bertsche, lecturer with the Accelerator Physics group of the University of Manchester School of Physics and Astronomy and the Cockcroft Institute, has just been awarded a Fellowship of…
Earlier in the year we announced the Cockcroft 120 Challenge – a science communication competition to celebrate the 120th anniversary of the birth of Sir John Cockcroft. We asked schools to…