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February 27, 2023

Protecting Particle Accelerators with Optical Fibres

Machine protection systems are critical to all particle accelerator infrastructure. Modern accelerators can store extreme energy densities within the particle beam. Anomalous behaviour of a beam can cause excessive radioactive activation of beamline areas, or even damage to accelerator components.…
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February 17, 2023

New £30 million supercomputer centre at Daresbury Laboratory

The new facility will host the latest in new supercomputing, artificial intelligence, and quantum technologies to support business and industry. A ground breaking ceremony has been held in celebration of a new £30 million supercomputer centre that is under construction…
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February 13, 2023

Beam Gas Curtain Installed in the Large Hadron Collider

The Cockcroft Institute’s ongoing collaboration with CERN and GSI reaches new heights as the Beam Gas Curtain (BGC) device is installed on the Large Hadron Collider during the year end technical stop. The Beam Gas Curtain device is a non-invasive…
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February 8, 2023

TeV/m catapult acceleration of electrons in graphene layers

Laser Wakefield Acceleration (LWFA) in plasma is a well-known technique to accelerate electron bunches using infra-red (IR) intense laser pulses. Gas droplets of Helium or Hydrogen are easily ionized driving high longitudinal electric fields due to the collective motion of…
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January 30, 2023

Professor Claudio Paoloni appointed to two prestigious roles

Professor Claudio Paoloni, a member of the Cockcroft Institute from Lancaster University, is to become a Distinguished Lecturer at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Electron Devices Society. Professor Paoloni, a Senior IEEE Member, is Professor of Electronics and Cockcroft…
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January 27, 2023

EuPRAXIA Doctoral Network starts in Brussels

The new 3.2M€ Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network EuPRAXIA-DN started with a kick-off meeting on 16/17 January 2023 in Brussels that brought together all the partners involved in the project for the first time. The EuPRAXIA Doctoral Network will support…
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December 21, 2022

Liverpool awarded £1M for CERN antimatter research

University of Liverpool physicists are leading a £1M antimatter research project as part of the AEgIs experiment at CERN. The project entitled `Slow Neutral Antimatter Atoms in Excited States for Inertial-type Precision Measurements’ (SNAP) is funded by The Engineering and…
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