The Cockcroft Institute

December 14, 2017

Implementing CERN Technology on X-ray FELs

The Cockcroft Institute is helping to apply advanced linac technology developed at CERN to design a new generation of compact X-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs), thanks to a €3 million project funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 programme. Beginning in…

December 5, 2017

OMA School on Monte Carlo Simulations

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 an international school on Monte Carlo simulations at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, between 6 - 10 November…

December 4, 2017

EuPRAXIA celebrates its second yearly meeting in Lisbon

The EuPRAXIA consortium, of which the University of Liverpool is one of the main partners, has held its second Yearly Meeting at the Instituto Superior Técnico in Lisbon from 20 to 24 November. [caption id="attachment_5081" align="aligncenter" width="599"] Participants at EuPRAXIA…

November 27, 2017

Postgraduate Conference 2017

The 6th annual CI Postgraduate Conference was held on 3rd November 2017 at the Merrison Lecture Theatre of Daresbury Lab. It attracted 40 postgraduates and academics from all four CI Universities (Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester and Strathclyde) and ASTeC. CI Director,…

November 27, 2017

Physics of Star Wars – Fact or Fiction?

CI Experts at Liverpool University bring the Force to life Light sabres, hyper speed and droids – will they be made possible with the latest accelerator research? With the imminent launch of “The Last Jedi”, Professor Carsten Welsch, Head of…

November 22, 2017

Marie Curie Celebrations join institutions across Europe

7th November was the 150th anniversary of the birth of Marie Curie Skłodowska Curie. In order to celebrate her life and achievements, as well as the EU funding program that bears her name, researchers from the Cockcroft Institute organised a simultaneous event…

November 22, 2017

First Accelerated Beam Through Linac 1

On 16th November CLARA reached another significant milestone – accelerating electron beam with Linac 1 for the first time. At the first attempt a beam energy of 48 MeV was reached, far exceeding the minimum facility requirement of 40 MeV.…

November 17, 2017

HL-LHC prototype cryomodule completed

The HL-LHC project to increase the luminosity of the LHC met a key milestone this week when the first prototype crab cavity cryomodule for SPS was completed. The cavities included HOM couplers, thermal shields, supports and magnetic shield designed with…

November 14, 2017

CI student wins IET Particle Accelerator Engineering Network Early Career Engineer Prize

The IET held its Particle Accelerator Engineering Network meeting in Birmingham on the 27th October. This network brings together engineers working on particle accelerators in Universities, National Laboratories and Industry. The day before the meeting Dr Graeme Burt from Lancaster…