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February 5, 2021

Talking Science – Hollywood Physics

Public Engagement with science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is a very important element in the QUASAR Group’s activities. We love to talk about our research, together with the impact science has on the world around us. Last week, QUASAR…

January 27, 2021

EuPRAXIA Conceptual Design Report published in the European Physical Journal

In 2015 an international consortium of 41 laboratories was created with the objective of designing a new European plasma accelerator infrastructure. The project EuPRAXIA – funded by the EU – would become the world’s first electron accelerator for users based…

January 15, 2021

Register now: national particle accelerator open day

The Cockcroft Institute will organise a virtual national particle accelerator open day on Wednesday, 3rd February 2021 for undergraduates studying engineering or physics at UK universities. The national particle accelerator open day has been an annual feature where one of the UK facilities opens their doors to…

January 5, 2021

New results from AWAKE: Manipulation of Proton Bunch Self Modulation using Plasma Density Gradient

The Advanced WAKEfield Experiment (AWAKE) is a proton-driven plasma wakefield experiment at CERN. It uses 400 GeV protons from CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) to drive large accelerating fields (~GV/m) in a 10 m long Rubidium plasma target. For the…

December 1, 2020

FCC November workshop 2020 (FCC NoW)

The 2020 FCC November meeting took place between Monday, 9 to Friday, 13 November. The event reviewed the most recent developments of the concepts for the next generation of colliders that were laid out in the 2019 Conceptual Design Report. The…

November 27, 2020

CI welcomes new cohort of students

2020 has been a difficult year but that hasn't stopped our new cohort of PhD students beginning their studies with us this autumn. While they haven't been able to join us at Daresbury yet, they are all hard at work…

November 16, 2020

The Economics of Big Science

Investment in science – whether in education and training or through public funding for developing new research tools and technologies – is crucial for progress. In a book that was just published as part of Springer’s Science Policy Reports, authors…

November 12, 2020

PhD students engage in online training on Data Intensive Science

Welcome talk by Prof. Carsten Welsch and Prof. Philip James. Earlier this year the Liverpool Centre for Doctoral Training on Data Intensive Science (LIV.DAT) was awarded 60k£ funding to organise the 2020 STFC Data Intensive Summer School. For one week,…

November 10, 2020

EIC Collaboration Workshop

The Electron-Ion Collider will be a powerful new billion dollar scale facility in the United States, hosted at the Brookhaven National Lab, constructed with the aim of studying Gluons, particles which bind all the observable matter in the world around us.…