The Cockcroft Institute

July 25, 2018

CI invites expressions of interest for prestigious Fellowships

The Cockcroft Institute offers a vibrant environment for cutting edge R&D into the science and technology of particle accelerators. For many years the institute has helped researchers to secure prestigious Fellowships that enable them to realise ambitious research programmes with one of our stakeholder universities…

July 16, 2018

Antimatter School held at CERN

The Cockcroft Institute has a unique track record in the coordination of pan-European training networks and has coordinated no less than 5 such initiatives over the past decade. Defining new training standards in antimatter research is the declared goal of…

July 11, 2018

Cockcroft Institute hosts major events on plasma accelerators

Scientists from across Europe gathered in Liverpool last week to discuss the future of plasma accelerators, advanced laser technology, and industry opportunities alongside a discussion of research progress made within the EuPRAXIA Design Study, supported by the European Union within…

July 2, 2018

CI research selected as 2017 Research Highlight

Superconductor Science and Technology (SUST) is an international multidisciplinary journal for papers on all aspects of superconductivity. It covers theories of superconductivity, the relation of microstructure and growth to superconducting properties, as well as R&D into the fabrication and properties of…

June 18, 2018

Postgraduates at the Cockcroft Institute

Well, it’s been a busy few months in our Institute’s postgraduate programme, so here’s a roundup of what’s been going on. As some of you know - if you’ve been watching for our PhD positions being advertised on www.FindAPhd.com - we…

June 15, 2018

Official Ground-Breaking Ceremony for LHC Upgrade

Today marks the official ground-breaking ceremony and hence the beginning of the works to upgrade the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). This important upgrade will help improve the performance of the world’s largest accelerator to…

June 15, 2018

IPAC 18 – A PhD student’s experience

Between the 29 April and 4 May this year, physicists and engineers from around the world gathered in Vancouver, Canada for the 9th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 18). I was fortunate enough to be able to join them, thanks…

June 5, 2018

First Accelerators for Security, Healthcare and the Environment Summer School held at CI

The Cockcroft Institute hosted the first of hopefully many summer schools as part of the Accelerators for Security, Healthcare and the Environment (ASHE) centre for doctoral training starting on Tuesday 22nd May. Dr Graeme Burt, Head of the ASHE programme…

May 26, 2018

World’s first crabbing of a proton beam

Experts from across the Cockcroft Institute, working closely with colleagues at CERN, have contributed to a technology breakthrough that promises to revolutionise the world of high energy particle physics and is a crucial step along the path to the future development of the Large…