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March 28, 2022

Reconciling Energy Recovery and Longitudinal Beam Dynamics

Energy Recovery Linacs (ERLs) reuse the kinetic energy of an accelerated electron bunch by transferring it to a freshly injected bunch. This mechanism enables a large reduction in the RF power required in comparison to linacs, without resorting to the…

March 9, 2022

Science and Faith converge in Liverpool

As international scientists gathered online to discuss the Future Circular Collider (FCC) the University of Liverpool hosted the public event '21st Century Particle Physics: discussions on Science and Faith’ at the famous Liverpool Cathedral on 8 February 2022. Outreach event…

March 7, 2022

FCC Workshop organised by the University of Liverpool

For the first time since the launch of the Future Circular Collider (FCC) feasibility study, the FCC physics community gathered online from 7 to 11 February to reflect the status and achievements of FCC Physics, Experiments, and Detectors studies and initiate…

February 16, 2022

Welcome to our new cohort of students

We are delighted to welcome 11 new PhD students to the Cockcroft Institute. Our new cohort joined us last autumn, and they have all been very busy settling into their research. This is an exciting time for you as you…

February 10, 2022

Women in Science 2022 – Challenges, Successes and Personal Stories

A significant gender gap has persisted throughout the years at all levels of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines all over the world. Even though women have made tremendous progress towards increasing their participation in higher education, they are…

February 8, 2022

LINAC 2022 Conference in Liverpool announced

The 31st Linear Accelerator Conference (LINAC) is coming to Liverpool this summer. The conference, hosted jointly by UKRI-STFC, the John Adams Institute and the Cockcroft Institute, will take place at the Liverpool Arena and Convention Centre (ACC) between 28 August…

February 4, 2022

EuPRAXIA featured in Optics & Photonics News

The magazine Optics & Photonics News has published a report article about laser wakefield acceleration in its latest issue. The article features prominently the EuPRAXIA project as one of the world’s largest initiatives in the field, and cites Prof Carsten…

February 2, 2022

CI work on radiotherapy linacs for low-income countries featured in the CERN Courier

Two Cockcroft Institute experts have published an article in the February issue of CERN Courier on the use of linacs to level up the access to radiotherapy in low income countries. The authors Deepa Angal-Kalinin (Head of the Science Division…

January 31, 2022

CI partner announced as first UK university to join AEgIS experiment at CERN

AEgIS antihidrogen production trap (Image: CERN) CI partner University of Liverpool has become the first UK university to join the AEgIS antimatter experiment at CERN. The AEgIS experiment (Antihydrogen Experiment: Gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy) aims to measure the gravitational fall of an antihydrogen pulsed…