The Annual Meeting of the IOP Particle Accelerators and Beams group was held on Friday the 9th April 2021. Along with a range of talks, a virtual poster session took place through the web-based platform Wonder, which recreated the feel of an in-person poster session. Attendees were ab

CI experts from the University of Liverpool were awarded more than £100k by STFC as part of the Innovation Partnership Scheme for Follow-on Funding to carry out research into a novel QuantumJET which shall produce micrometer-focused beams of atoms and molecules for non-invasive,

The 12th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’21) was organized by the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM), Campinas (Brazil), and took place from 24 to 28 May. It is the main international event for the worldwide accelerator community and indu

The second CLARA User meeting was held on 16th of June to provide updates on the accelerator since the first CLARA user meeting held in June 2019. The meeting took place online over Zoom and was attended by 65 people. The machine status, upgrades to BA1, and a forward look at issues r

A new project to look at creating a world-leading materials science centre at the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Daresbury Laboratory is underway thanks to more than £1million funding. If built, the new facility’s state-of-the-art capabilities would provide UK scie

Daniel Turner, a 3rd year Cockcroft student at Lancaster University, co-supervised by ASTeC, has won the best student poster prize at the international conference on superconducting RF (SRF’21). The conference is attended by around 400 international researchers and the student c

Particle colliders are important engines of discovery, and collisions between both protons and leptons have shone a light on the fundamental structure of our universe for decades. These colliders operate by the acceleration, subsequent manipulation and finally collision of charged par

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) target the development of excellent researchers through international and cross-sector mobility. MSCA networks support joint doctoral programmes, implemented by European partnerships of universities, research institutions, industry (incl. SMEs) an

For the second time in a month, experts from the Cockcroft Institute have had a paper selected as an “Editor’s Suggestion” in Physical Review – Accelerators and Beams. Drs Rob Apsimon and Sadiq Setiniyaz of Lancaster University Engineering Department, toget

The Galileo Galilei Award in Medical Physics is given every year to the best paper published in the European Journal of Medical Physics in the previous year. The journal has just announced that this year the paper “Technical challenges for FLASH proton therapy” by Drs Simon Jolly and