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November 26, 2021

CI student wins Particle Accelerator Engineering network Early Career poster prize

Ruth Peacock Cockcroft student Ruth Peacock has won this year’s Particle Accelerator Engineering network Early Career poster prize at the annual meeting. Ruth’s poster was on the effect of H- irradiation on the conditioning of high field copper surfaces using…

November 24, 2021

Registration now open for the 5th FCC Physics workshop

For the first time since the launch of the FCC feasibility study, the FCC physics community will gather in hybrid format (in person and online) for the 5th FCC Physics workshop, which will take place at the University of Liverpool…

November 1, 2021

Time boundaries, black holes and axions

Details of the arrangement of the fields. The blue lines are the electromagnetic flux lines, the red lines are the axion source and the light red discs are the axion current [Credit: J. Gratus, Adapted from Front cover Ann. Phys.…

October 25, 2021

New JetDose project set to optimise proton beam cancer therapy

Experts from the Cockcroft Institute/University of Liverpool have been awarded Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) funding to develop a novel monitoring system to help optimise proton beam cancer therapy. Proton beam cancer therapy is a complex procedure that relies…

October 18, 2021

Particle Accelerator Engineering Network Annual Meeting – Online – 9-10 November 2021

The Particle Accelerator Engineering Network is a collaboration between the IET, IMechE and IoP to support all types of engineers and technicians working in the accelerator field. The network is currently chaired by Prof Graeme Burt, Cockcroft Institute who co-founded…

October 15, 2021

Cockcroft students successfully complete their PhDs

While some of us were enjoying a well-deserved summer break, Cockcroft Institute PhD students have been hard at work finishing their theses. Two of them, Lee Millar and Laurence Nix, have successfully passed their vivas over the summer, and can…

October 11, 2021

Liverpool experts help shape the training of the next generation of researchers

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) and other non-academic organisations. Participants at the online…

September 27, 2021

Generating coherent light from laser-accelerator electrons

Novel research points to developing table-top x-ray sources for future applications A new way of producing coherent light in the ultra-violet spectral region, which points the way to developing brilliant table-top x-ray sources, has been produced in research led…

August 11, 2021

Cockcroft student wins best Early Career Scientist’s submission prize at IOP meeting

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…