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November 28, 2013

The 2nd annual meeting of the HiLumi LHC-LARP collaboration

The joint HiLumi LHC-LARP collaboration held its 2nd annual meeting between 11-15 November 2013, hosted by the Cockcroft Institute and Daresbury Laboratory. The international meeting brought together 180 physicists and…

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November 18, 2013

Cockcroft Institute Particle Accelerator School

The Cockcroft Institute recently held its first accelerator school at the end of October. The school was attended by 22 students from 6 different Universities and ASTeC. The school was…

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November 18, 2013

Cockcroft Institute Postgraduate Conference

The Cockcroft held its 3rd annual postgraduate conference on the 3rd September. Students from all three Universities and ASTeC presented their research to a group of their peers plus a…

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November 8, 2013

Highly successful 2nd LA³NET Workshop hosted by Fraunhofer ILT

The LA³NET project coordinated from the Cockcroft Institute held its second Topical Workshop on ‘Laser technology and optics design’ at the world-leading Institute for Laser Technology (ILT) at the Fraunhofer…

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October 17, 2013

Cockcroft Institute led oPAC project found to be a ‘great success’

The mid-term review meeting of the oPAC project took place this Monday 14th October 2013 in Barcelona, Spain and was hosted by project partner ALBA light source. All aspects of…

October 11, 2013

Nobel Prize in Physics 2013

The Cockcroft Institute (CI) celebrates the award of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013 and the discovery of the Higgs-boson. It congratulates Peter Higgs and François Englert on their achievement…

October 3, 2013

Cockcroft Institute Particle Accelerator School

The Cockcroft Institute is hosting a two week intensive particle accelerator school (CIPAS). The school will cover beam dynamics, magnets, RF, vacuum, diagnostics and undulators. The school is postgraduate level…

September 27, 2013

Cockcroft Institute Contributions to IBIC 2013

This year the International Beam Instrumentation Conference (IBIC) took place in Oxford, UK from 16th-20th September. The QUASAR Group’s EU Project T.E.A.M, based at The Cockcroft Institute, attended the conference and…

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September 24, 2013

IoP HEPP Half-Day meeting: Low-Energy Frontier of High Energy Particle Physics

Approximately 25 delegates attended a meeting dedicated to precision measurements and new particle searches at low-energy. Both theoretical and experimental topics were discussed providing a timely overview of developments in…