High energy particle beams with extreme luminosities and ultra-bright beams of energetic radiation are ubiquitous tools for studying the structure of matter in a wide range of spatial and temporal…
In time for the global launch of the latest Star Wars movie “The Force Awakens” LA3NET Fellow Thomas Hoffmann (CERN) and oPAC Fellow Konstantin Kruchinin (Royal Holloway University of London)…
The weekly political and cultural magazine New Statesman has just published an article by Prof. Carsten P. Welsch highlighting the risks that a shortage of trained accelerator scientists poses on…
Last June saw the start of the EU-funded EuroCirCol project, a design study for a post-LHC hadron collider in which the Cockcroft Institute is playing an important role. The…
Daresbury laboratories played host to the 3rd annual national particle accelerator open day. The national event, sponsored by the IoP Particles and Beams group, opens up the doors of one…
The Cockcroft Institute recently held its second particle accelerator school at the start of November. The school was attended by 23 students from 5 different Universities and ASTeC. The two…
The Large Hadron Collider has been providing proton-proton, nucleon-proton and nucleon nucleon collisions since it started operations in 2009. Thanks to the data collected by the experiments several contributions have…
A crucial parameter needed for the operation of an accelerator of charged particles is the beam intensity, i.e. the number of charges crossing a certain area per unit time. For…