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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…
A schematic map showing where the Future Circular Collider tunnel is proposed to be located (Image: CERN).
July 3, 2020

European Strategy for Particle Physics

(Image: CERN) The core objective of the Cockcroft Institute (CI) is to design and develop powerful instruments of discovery, particle accelerators, that enable scientists from many disciplines to elucidate the structure of matter and its underlying dynamics at sub-microscopic distance…
June 24, 2020

Meeting of the PERLE Collaboration

From the 3-5 June 2020 the PERLE collaboration held a virtual meeting with about 50 participants. The goal of the PERLE Collaboration is to work towards the design and eventual construction of PERLE an ERL (Energy Recovery Linac) test facility in a new…
June 22, 2020

Advancements in the Optimization of Medical Accelerators

The online magazine News Medical has recently published an interview with CI expert Professor Carsten P. Welsch. In the interview, Prof Welsch explains the basic principles of proton beam therapy and the benefits of medical accelerator research to improve radiotherapy…