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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…
July 7, 2025

Bringing particle accelerators to life through augmented reality

Accelerator science is a constantly evolving field. New technological advances allow large colliders – like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN – to reach higher energies and discover new particles. Scientists are already discussing its predecessor - an even…
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April 30, 2025

EuPRAXIA-DN Camp on Technologies held in Pisa

The EuPRAXIA Doctoral Network (EuPRAXIA-DN) held a two-day Camp on laser and plasma-related technologies, connecting the latest research and development results in these areas with the challenges related to their integration in a plasma-accelerator-based research infrastructure.  The Camp was hosted…
April 23, 2025

Making waves in electromagnetic technology

Cockcroft Institute scientists Graeme Burt and Laura Corner, from Lancaster University and the University of Liverpool respectively, together with former Cockcroft member Rebecca Seviour, now at the University of Huddersfield, have authored a chapter on accelerators for the book New…