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November 26, 2025

Tabletop accelerator research featured as Physical Review Letters cover story

A groundbreaking study involving members of the University of Liverpool's QUASAR Group, based at the Cockcroft Institute, has been selected as this week’s cover story for Physical Review Letters (PRL), highlighting an advance that could fundamentally transform how compact particle accelerators are designed and…
November 17, 2025

CI PhD successes from Liverpool

Over the last months, several PhD students affiliated with the Cockcroft Institute have successfully concluded their theses, marking an important step forward in their research paths. Alexander Morris from passed his viva in November. His PhD thesis ‘Design of a…
November 6, 2025

CI Postgraduate Researcher Conference 2025

This year’s Cockcroft Institute Postgraduate Researcher Conference 2025 took place on the 15th October at Daresbury Laboratory. Participants at this year’s CI Postgraduate Conference. Students from across the Institute presented their work in three talk sessions and a poster session,…
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September 26, 2025

PhotonDiag2025 Conference held in Liverpool

The 7th FELs of Europe PhotonDiag conference took place in Liverpool, UK from 2nd to 4th September 2025. PhotonDiag is the première conference focused on the technical aspects of photon delivery to science experiments on advanced, accelerator-based photon sources and free-electron laser (FEL) sources…
September 1, 2025

The Code of the Universe

A new exhibition exploring the world of accelerators and particle physics has opened in the University of Liverpool’s historic Quadrangle. Code of the Universe is a travelling photographic exhibition that showcases the work carried out at CERN together with its…