The Cockcroft Institute

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…

May 25, 2018

Symposium: Quantum Leap Towards the Next Generation of Particle Accelerators

Accelerator science has made possible the digital revolution, now scientists across Europe are collaborating to design the world’s first high-energy plasma-based accelerator facility, which will be stronger and more compact than the current accelerators used by industry today. The future…

Andy Wolski delivering his IoP Prize talk at Lancaster University

May 23, 2018

IoP Particle Accelerator & Beams Group Prize talk: Professor Andy Wolski

The annual meeting of the IoP's Particle Accelerator and Beams Group (PABG) was hosted by Lancaster University on 18th April. There was a wide range of speakers from national facilities, industry and universities. Andy Wolski of the University of Liverpool…

May 21, 2018

Accelerators for Security, Healthcare and the Environment Summer School

Cockcroft will be hosting the first of hopefully many summer schools as part of the Accelerators for Security, Healthcare and the Environment doctoral training centre starting on Tuesday 22nd May and running for two weeks. The school focuses on smaller…

May 16, 2018

Cockcroft researchers make major contributions to IPAC18

This year the 9th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC18) was held in Vancouver, Canada, from April 29 to May 4. IPACis the world’s largest accelerator conference, attracting more than one thousand delegates to present and discuss the latest R&D results in accelerator science. Researchers and…

April 23, 2018

FCC Week 2018

[caption id="attachment_5264" align="aligncenter" width="600"] José Van Dijk, president of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, opening the FCC Week 2018[/caption] More than 450 participants in the Future Circular Collider (FCC) Study met last week in Amsterdam for its annual collaboration…

April 4, 2018

Spring 2018 AWAKE Collaboration meeting held at CI

The AWAKE project -- the world’s first proton-driven plasma wakefield accelerator experiment – has just entered Phase 2 of its first Run, due to be completed by the end of 2018. Results from the first year have been overwhelmingly positive.…

March 27, 2018

OMA Topical Workshop on Facility Design Optimization for Treatment

The Optimization of Medical Accelerators (OMA) project, coordinated by Prof Carsten Welsch, member of the Cockcroft Institute and Head of the Liverpool Physics Department, held its 1st OMA Topical Workshop on 12th – 13th March 2018 at the Paul Scherrer…

March 26, 2018

Annual Particle Physics Masterclass at Daresbury

[caption id="attachment_5229" align="aligncenter" width="545"] Students being welcomed to the masterclass with an introductory talk on accelerator science at Daresbury.[/caption] Between the 6th and 8th of March the Cockcroft Institute hosted its annual Particle Physics Masterclass (PPMC) at Daresbury Laboratory. The…