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February 17, 2019

News of breakthroughs from the AWAKE Experiment at CERN

Breakthrough results from the AWAKE project have just been published in the prestigious scientific journal ‘Physical Review Letters’, both of them at "editor's suggestion". Plasma cell in the AWAKE Tunnel (copyright CERN) The first paper describes experimental evidence for seeded…
February 15, 2019

Accelerator designers met at GSI to discuss facility optimization

The Antiproton Decelerator (AD) and the Extra Low ENergy Antiproton (ELENA) rings are unique facilities at CERN designed to trap, store and facilitate antimatter research. They help scientists understand fundamental properties of antimatter and to advance fundamental scientific knowledge. ELENA…
February 3, 2019

Working together for a future without cancer

World Cancer Day is recognised on February 4th this year and is used to raise awareness of one of the world’s most deadly diseases. Cancer is the second-leading cause of death worldwide and up to 3.7 million lives could be…
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 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…