News - The Cockcroft Institute

October 24, 2025

Successful Completion of STFC’s High Beta Cavity Contribution to ESS

After eight and a half years, scientists and engineers from STFC, many of them based at the Cockcroft Institute, successfully completed the supply of high beta cavities (HBC) to the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Lund, Sweden. This achievement marks…

October 1, 2025

Very High Energy Electron Radiotherapy Workshop held at the Cockcroft Institute

The 4th workshop on Very High Energy Electron Radiotherapy (VHEE-RT) was held at the Cockcroft Institute, Daresbury Laboratory, UK from 15th – 17th of September 2025. The inaugural workshop was held at the Cockcroft Institute in 2017, with 2nd one…

September 26, 2025

PhotonDiag2025 Conference held in Liverpool

The 7th FELs of Europe PhotonDiag conference took place in Liverpool, UK from 2nd to 4th September 2025. PhotonDiag is the première conference focused on the technical aspects of photon delivery to science experiments on advanced, accelerator-based photon sources and free-electron laser (FEL) sources…

September 24, 2025

Liverpool welcomes record number of delegates to international beam instrumentation conference

The University of Liverpool together with STFC, the Cockcroft Institute and the John Adams Institute has hosted the largest-ever European edition of the International Beam Instrumentation Conference (IBIC 2025). The 14th edition of this important event took place on campus…

September 1, 2025

The Code of the Universe

A new exhibition exploring the world of accelerators and particle physics has opened in the University of Liverpool’s historic Quadrangle. Code of the Universe is a travelling photographic exhibition that showcases the work carried out at CERN together with its…

August 12, 2025

Deepa Angal-Kalinin awarded prize at Particle Accelerator and Beams Conference 2025

On the 9th and 10th of July, the UK’s accelerator community gathered for the UK's flagship annual event: the Particle Accelerator and Beams Conference 2025 (PAB 2025). The hosts for this year’s event were Diamond Light Source, ISIS Neutron and…

August 6, 2025

CLARA reaches 250 million electron volts milestone

The Cockroft Institute’s ASTeC team has achieved a major scientific milestone at Daresbury Laboratory. The Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications (CLARA) has successfully accelerated electrons to an energy of 250 million electron volts (MeV). This breakthrough marks a…

July 30, 2025

AWAKE-UK Collaboration Meets in Daresbury

Leading researchers from the AWAKE-UK collaboration met in Daresbury on 2nd July to review progress and chart the future of the UK's contribution to the Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) at CERN. The meeting highlighted significant advancements…

July 9, 2025

CI research presented at IPAC’25 in Taipei

The 16th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’25) was held from 1 - 6 June 2025 at the International Convention Centre and the Taipei World Trade Centre in the bustling metropolis of Taipei, Taiwan. The event was hosted by the National Synchrotron Radiation…