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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…

September 14, 2020

The Virtual International Linac2020 Conference

In the context of the current global Covid-19 pandemic, interfacing, interactions and collaborations are most certainly being challenged in terms of groups finding ways to maintain ongoing and effective engagements. Organisers for Conferences, Workshops and large meetings are having to…

September 11, 2020

Phase II of UK project to upgrade the Large Hadron Collider now underway

The image shows the cryomodule jointly designed and manufactured by CERN and the UK to demonstrate the world’s first crabbing of a proton beam. Credit: CERN Scientists, engineers and technicians from the UK have embarked on a £26M project to…

August 12, 2020

Cockcroft Institute scientists create compact particle accelerators which drive electrons to near the speed of light at 100 times higher frequency

Scientists from the Cockcroft Institute have successfully developed a pocket-sized particle accelerator capable of projecting ultra-short electron beams with laser light at more than 99.99% of the speed of light. To achieve this result, the researchers, led by Lancaster and…

August 12, 2020

New monitor type installed in the Large Hadron Collider

A beam gas curtain monitor that has been developed between experts from the Cockcroft Institute/University of Liverpool, CERN and GSI within the STFC-funded HLLHC-UK project has been successfully installed in the world’s largest and highest energy particle accelerator, the Large…

August 6, 2020

IOP Award – Professor Susan Smith

The Cockcroft Institute is delighted to announce the award of the 2020 IOP Particle Accelerator and Beams Group Prize for Outstanding Professional Contribution to Professor Susan Smith of STFC Daresbury Laboratory. ASTeC Director & Head of Daresbury Laboratory, Professor Susan…

August 6, 2020

Efficiency frontiers for high RF power L-band Multi-Beam Klystrons

Cockcroft Institute researchers in collaboration with CERN have been exploring novel technologies for major savings in the energy consumption and cost of future accelerators, as an article that has just been published in Accelerating News highlights. Photograph of the CLIC…

July 6, 2020

X-Ray Facilities Enabling COVID-19-Related Research

Virus (Image Pixabay) As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, many countries have gone into lockdown. Schools, restaurants, and other non-essential businesses were instructed to temporarily closed their doors. Light source facilities, however, have not been quiet. Dr Tessa Charles,…

July 3, 2020

Ernest Rutherford Fellowships 2020/21 – Call now open

(Image: STFC) STFC has launched a call for the next round of Ernest Rutherford Fellowships. Its aim is to support future scientific leaders to establish a strong, independent research programme. The fellowships will last for five years and are intended…