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December 14, 2016

AWAKE Experiment reaches important milestone

AWAKE is a unique experiment at CERN using the high power SPS proton beam to drive large electric fields in a plasma in order to accelerate an externally injected electron beam. The Cockcroft Institute through the Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool…
November 29, 2016

20 years of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

The European Union is celebrating 20 years of its Research Fellowship Programme. Since 1996, the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) have provided grants to train excellent researchers at all stages of their careers - be they doctoral candidates or highly experienced…
November 23, 2016

Lancaster PhD student wins IET award

Samantha Pitman a 4th year PhD student at Lancaster University Engineering department and the Cockcroft Institute has won the IET best student poster prize at the joint IET/IMechE/IoP Particle Accelerator Engineering Network meeting at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on the 9th October.…
November 21, 2016

Multi-million pound Large Hadron Collider upgrade project launched

[caption id="attachment_4372" align="aligncenter" width="585"] Image: LHC - copyright Cecile Noels/CERN[/caption] A new multi-million pound international project led by researchers from the Cockcroft Institute has been launched to contribute to the upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN in…
November 14, 2016

Work on LHC published in European Physical Journal C

[caption id="attachment_4357" align="alignleft" width="401"] Image: LHC - Maximilien Brice/CERN[/caption] Understanding how particles such as protons scatter in matter is crucial to the design and operation of beam collimation systems in accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider. These collimation systems remove…
November 9, 2016

CI Postgraduate Conference 2016

The 5th annual Postgraduate Conference was held on 31st October 2015 at the Cockcroft Institute (CI). This conference is an important event for all CI postgraduates and it provides a platform for them to networking, sharing information and practising their…
November 2, 2016

Accelerating discoveries

Nestled amongst the steam and diesel powered accelerators of old (ok - trains), Cockcroft Institute researchers have recently been spotted communicating particle accelerators to the next generation of scientists. The one day Accelerating discoveries event, which was hosted by the…
November 2, 2016

LA³NET Topical Workshops in Paris organized by Quasar Group

The latest events of the Quasar – led LA³NET network took place in Paris on 23rd – 26th October. A workshop on Novel Accelerators and one on Laser Ion Sources were organized in the beautiful surroundings of the Université Pierre…