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February 2, 2022

CI work on radiotherapy linacs for low-income countries featured in the CERN Courier

Two Cockcroft Institute experts have published an article in the February issue of CERN Courier on the use of linacs to level up the access to radiotherapy in low income countries. The authors Deepa Angal-Kalinin (Head of the Science Division…

January 31, 2022

CI partner announced as first UK university to join AEgIS experiment at CERN

AEgIS antihidrogen production trap (Image: CERN) CI partner University of Liverpool has become the first UK university to join the AEgIS antimatter experiment at CERN. The AEgIS experiment (Antihydrogen Experiment: Gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy) aims to measure the gravitational fall of an antihydrogen pulsed…

January 17, 2022

Dr Ralph B Fiorito (1941 – 2021)

It is with great sadness that I have to report the passing of my colleague and friend, Dr Ralph B Fiorito. Ralph was an internationally recognized expert in beam diagnostics and radiation sources. He has a very long and successful…

January 7, 2022

Susan Smith recognised in Queen’s New Year Honours

CI member Professor Susan Smith, ASTeC Director Emeritus and Honorary Professor at the University of Liverpool, has been recognised by The Queen in her New Year honours list for her services to science and technology. The honours system recognises people…

December 20, 2021

CI Postgraduate Conference 2021

Participants of CI PGC 21 on Daresbury Laboratory campus. After an online only event in 2020, the 10th annual Cockcroft Institute Postgraduate Conference (CIPGC) was held on 24th November 2021 in the Merrison Lecture Theatre of Daresbury Laboratory. Due to the ongoing…

December 7, 2021

ASHE helps pave the way for portable low cost, low dose 3D imaging

The state of the art in 3D X-ray imaging involves the use of an X-ray tube which is in some way translated and rotated in space relative to a patient. By doing so, X-ray images from 10s or 1000s of…

December 3, 2021

Liverpool academic recognised for ‘exceptional contribution to physics education’

Cockcroft member Dr Chris Edmonds, from the University of Liverpool, has been awarded the 2021 Institute of Physics Daphne Jackson Medal and Prize in recognition of his ‘exceptional contribution to physics education, by improving access for the visually impaired, enhancing teacher training and…

December 1, 2021

Introducing cutting-edge accelerator science to school children

Public engagement lies at the heart of the University of Liverpool’s Quantum Systems and advanced Accelerator Research (QUASAR) Group, based at the Cockcroft Institute. Their wide-ranging outreach activities take an imaginative approach to make the benefits of accelerator research fascinating and understandable.…

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…