The Cockcroft Institute

October 30, 2020

Future Circular Collider film wins Silver in W3 Awards

On 6th October 2020 the Winners of the 15th annual w3 Awards have been announced by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts. Receiving over 3,000 entries from across the globe, the w3 Awards honour outstanding Websites, Marketing, Video, Mobile, …

October 14, 2020

New paper on pioneering new cancer radiotherapy

FLASH radiotherapy is a promising new technique that uses high-energy particles to treat tumours; a high dose of radiation is administered almost instantaneously - in milliseconds rather than around a minute. Here, the tumour tissue is damaged in the same…

October 12, 2020

New collaboration to boost quantum beam profile monitors

The QUASAR Group, based at the Cockcroft Institute/University of Liverpool, and UHV Design Ltd (UHVD), a leading specialist in UHV motion and heating products, have formed a new partnership that is advancing the world’s next generation of charged particle beam…

October 7, 2020

EuPRAXIA application for European roadmap submitted

On 9th September 2020, the Italian government submitted an application to include the European Plasma Research Accelerator with Excellence in Applications (EuPRAXIA) in the European roadmap for large research infrastructures. The governments of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Portugal and the…

October 5, 2020

CI industry project on adaptive optics successfully completed

The EU-funded ARIES proof of concept project Innovative Adaptive Optics has recently drawn to a close. This project saw a collaboration between the QUASAR Group from the University of Liverpool/Cockcroft Institute and the beam instrumentation company D-Beam Ltd develop strands…

October 2, 2020

Funding award for Optical Fibre Analysis System

A new STFC-funded project for developing an advanced machine protection system based on optical fibre technology was started this month by the QUASAR Group, based at the Cockcroft Institute. Research into an Optical Fibre Analysis System (OASYS) targets a novel…

September 30, 2020

New method to guide high intensity laser pulses in plasma channels

CI researchers work on particle accelerators which are some of the largest structures in the world – the LHC at CERN is 27 km around and there are plans for an even larger 100 km successor. But CI researchers also…

September 21, 2020

Post-Doctoral Position at DESY for Pavel Juarez-Lopez

Pavel Juarez-Lopez joined the Cockcroft Institute in October 2016 as a Ph.D. student jointly appointed by the University of Liverpool and ASTeC to research the performance of photocathode electron sources for high-brightness beams. He is now coming to the end…

September 16, 2020

Cockcroft Institute Member takes over as chair of the Particle Accelerator Engineering Community in the IET

Prof Graeme Burt has taken over from Dan Faircloth as the chair of the Particle Accelerator Engineering Network. The network is jointly supported by IET, IMechE, IoP and STFC but is officially located within the IET as a particle accelerator…