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September 30, 2016

Hot News: Cockcroft Institute hosts Linac2020

The International Organizing Committee has just awarded the organization of the 30th LINAC conference in 2020 to the Cockcroft Institute. The bi-annual LINAC conference is the main gathering for the world-wide community of linear accelerator specialists. It provides a unique…
September 23, 2016

Quasar Group showcased at IBIC 2016

Sun-drenched palm trees and luxury cruise liners dawdling in the balmy waters of the port of Barcelona presented a splendid backdrop to this year’s edition of the International Beam Instrumentation Conference (IBIC) from 11th to 15th September. The industrial exhibition,…
September 19, 2016

AVA ‘SPARCs’ enthusiasm

Following on from the successful tests which mark the beginning of the commissioning of the Cryring accelerator into the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) at GSI, there was much to discuss at the annual Stored Particle Atomic Research…
September 7, 2016

Multimillion Pound Project on Antimatter Research announced

The AVA project will allow cutting edge research and promote training innovations AVA (Accelerators Validating Antimatter physics) is a new European research and training network between universities, research centres and industry. Within the project a cohort of 15 Fellows will…
September 5, 2016

QUASAR Group Research Coordinator

There is an exciting 5 year position vacancy in the QUASAR Group, University of Liverpool. The Group is based at the Cockcroft Institute where it carries out a broad and interconnected research program into accelerator design and optimisation, as well…
August 31, 2016

“A Cool Investigation into Antiproton Beam Dynamics”

A new paper published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics A will help scientists provide higher quality antiproton beams to experiments at CERN and antimatter facilities across the world. “Non-Gaussian beam dynamics in low energy antiproton storage rings” (J.…
August 5, 2016

OMA Steering Committee meets at GSI

The Optimization of Medical Accelerators (OMA) is an international collaboration of 33 institutions which during the four year project duration will train 15 early stage researchers in the field of particle beam therapy for cancer treatment. The project started in…
July 22, 2016

No slowing down of Cockcroft Outreach Activities

Following on from the highly successful Daresbury Open Week, last Thursday, 14th July, saw even more outreach events attended by members of the Cockcroft Institute. The first event involved children from the Chernobyl children’s project, a charity which aims to…