The Cockcroft Institute

November 13, 2015

Cockcroft members celebrate the HL-LHC project moving to the prototyping phase

[caption id="attachment_3276" align="aligncenter" width="640"] HiLumi LHC collaboration members[/caption] More than 230 scientists and engineers from around the world, including several from the Cockcroft Institute, met at CERN this October to discuss the High-Luminosity LHC – a major upgrade to the…

November 12, 2015

A Look into the Crystal Ball: Plasma Wakefield Experiments on Daresbury Campus

Following the success of Large Hadron Collider's (LHC) proton collisions such as the Nobel Prize winning discovery of Higgs boson, the next generation colliders are vital for complementing the LHC results for precision measurements. Historically, a tripodal scheme has been…

November 9, 2015

Antihydrogen – A Comprehensive Review

Antimatter, often the subject of science fiction on account of its conversion to energy when it comes in contact with matter, is very real and at the center of one of the great mysteries of physics. Current theory would predict…

November 2, 2015

EU funds Design Study for European Plasma Accelerator

Three million euros for European Plasma Research Accelerator with eXcellence In Applications (EuPRAXIA) project The European Union supports the development of a novel plasma particle accelerator with three million euros from the Horizon2020 program. The EU project EuPRAXIA (European Plasma…

October 28, 2015

Join the most exciting physics experiments

IOP National Particle Accelerator Open Day will be held at the Cockcroft Institute on the 25th November, with an interesting programme for undergraduate students. This will include talks, lab tours and the chance to talk to current PhD students,…

October 20, 2015

Accelerators take us ‘Back to the Future’ to discover new Materials

European Circular Energy-Frontier Collider takes us deep into space-time The world is gearing up for the biggest physics experiment ever and it will take us ‘back to the future’ according to Professor Carsten P. Welsch of the Cockcroft Institute/University of…

October 16, 2015

Cockcroft Institute awarded 4 M€ in EU Funding to Battle Cancer

Cancer is a major health problem and it is the main cause of death between the ages of 45 - 65. Although significant progress has been made in the use of particle beams for cancer treatment, extensive research is still…

October 14, 2015

CI-led oPAC network holds accelerator conference in Seville

[caption id="attachment_3071" align="alignright" width="206"] One of the oPAC fellows, Daria Astapovych, presents her work on the Large Hadron Collider.[/caption] The Marie Curie Initial Training Network oPAC – Optimization of Particle Accelerators, coordinated by Prof. Carsten P. Welsch and his EU…

October 4, 2015

Academic Training Programme 2015-2016

Autumn Term Lecture Poster 2015-2016.pdf