News - The Cockcroft Institute

May 7, 2021

CI researchers awarded computing grant for large-scale simulations in Laser Wakefield Acceleration

Cockcroft Institute and Lancaster University Postdoctoral Research Associate, Dr John Scott, and co-investigators, Dr Elisabetta Boella (CI / Lancaster University), Dr Laura Corner (CI / University of Liverpool) and Dr Jorge Vieira (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal), have recently been awarded…

April 23, 2021

Cockcroft Early Career Excellence Awards 2019/20

The director of the Cockcroft Institute, Prof Peter Ratoff, announced the winners of the first Cockcroft Institute Early Career Excellence Awards as Dr Paul Scherkl (University of Strathclyde) and Dr Jinchi Cai (Lancaster University /CERN). The Cockcroft Institute Early Career…

April 21, 2021

Rutherford Plasma Physics Communications Prize

Cockcroft lecturer Dr Laura Corner, together with University of Liverpool student Cara Hawkins, have been awarded the Rutherford Plasma Physics Communications Prize for their episode on the podcast The Liverpool Scientific. This podcast was started in October 2020 by Cara…

April 15, 2021

ALPHA cools antimatter using laser light for the first time

View of the ALPHA experiment (Image: CERN) The ALPHA collaboration at CERN has succeeded in cooling down antihydrogen atoms – the simplest form of atomic antimatter – using laser light. The technique, known as laser cooling, was first demonstrated 40…

April 12, 2021

Evidence of new physics in muon measurements

News media around the world have been inundated with reports of a recent discovery in Fermilab which could hint to a new revolution in physics. Much-anticipated data from the Muon g-2 experiment provides tantalising evidence that muons are not…

March 29, 2021

Energy efficiency of particle accelerators

Particle accelerators use up huge amounts of energy, with CERN currently using 10% of the electricity in the Geneva region. The next generation of particle accelerators for high energy physics would require their own power stations if changes are not…

March 23, 2021

Spotlight On…Ondrej Sedlacek

In this new series of 'Spotlight Interviews' we have asked our PhD students a few questions to give you a more personal insight into work, motivation and challenges of our students and PhD life at the Cockcroft Institute. Ondrej Sedlacek…

March 4, 2021

Cockcroft Institute book released as a broad introduction to particle accelerators

A new book written by four staff members at the Cockcroft institute has just been released last year by CRC press. The Science and Technology of Particle Accelerators provides an accessible introduction to the field, and is suitable for advanced undergraduates, graduate students,…

March 1, 2021

What would you do with a mini accelerator?

EuPRAXIA marks centenary of Bruno Touschek, Father of Colliders, with a challenge to visionaries 100 years after the birth of the ‘father of colliders’ Bruno Touschek, and sixty years after his ground-breaking electron-positron e-e+collider accumulated its first electrons, plans for…