The Cockcroft Institute

January 25, 2019

The Christie treats first patients with high energy protons

The first patients have been treated at the newly opened proton therapy centre at the Christie hospital in Manchester, UK. It has been reported by the BBC that fifteen-year-old Mason Kettley, who has a rare brain cancer, will be amongst…

January 16, 2019

International collaboration publishes design for a post-LHC future circular collider

The Future Circular Collider (FCC) collaboration submitted its Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for publication, a four-volume document that presents the different options for a large circular collider of the future, an electron-positron (ee) collider and a hadron-hadron (hh) collider with…

January 11, 2019

3rd OMA Topical Workshop held at GSI

Participants at the 3rd OMA Topical Workshop at GSI. A workshop on Medical Accelerator Design and Diagnostics was held at GSI in Darmstadt, Germany, on 10th - 12th December, 2018. Speakers discussed the latest developments in technology for beam monitoring in medical accelerators. The…

December 10, 2018

EuPRAXIA holds its third yearly meeting in Frascati

The EuPRAXIA consortium, of which the University of Liverpool is one of the main partners, held its third Yearly Meeting, followed by two and a half days of collaboration meetings, at the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, in Frascati (Italy)…

December 3, 2018

7th annual Postgraduate Conference held at CI

[caption id="attachment_5562" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Cockcroft director Peter Ratoff welcomes the participants.[/caption] 24th October 2018 saw the 7th annual CI Postgraduate Conference, which was held in our own Merrison Lecture Theatre on the Daresbury Science and Technology Campus. 36 of our…

November 28, 2018

Liverpool to host international symposium on Future Circular Collider technologies

Liverpool Convention Centre, 22 March 2019 Being the largest machine in the World, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been an unparalleled source of technological development and innovation as well as a major contributor to our understanding of the fundamental…

November 13, 2018

Cockcroft Institute at Linac18 in Beijing

The 29th International Linear Accelerator Conference (Linac18) was hosted by the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) at the Friendship Hotel in Beijing over 16th – 21st September 2018. During the conference, the…

November 12, 2018

Successful measurement program at the MAX IV synchrotron

[caption id="attachment_5537" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The very first CTR image results from the MAX IV control room. The “donut” shape is critical to the development of the new bunch length diagnostic.[/caption] A group of PhD students from the Cockcroft Institute have…

November 9, 2018

AWAKE Collaboration prepares for Run 2

[caption id="attachment_5516" align="aligncenter" width="601"] Photograph of the AWAKE beam line - copyright CERN[/caption] The AWAKE project — the world’s first proton-driven plasma wakefield accelerator experiment — will soon end Phase 2 of its first experimental Run at the end of…