The Cockcroft Institute

February 3, 2016

A versatile optical sensor for the characterization of fluids

Laser self-mixing is a technique usually used for the measurement of low velocities and vibrations. In a paper that has just been published in the journal Nuclear Instruments and Methods A, CI researchers present how these measurements can be extended…

January 29, 2016

Plasma Accelerator Research Station taking Shape

Particle accelerators find many applications in fundamental research, as well as in health, energy and security applications. They range from relatively compact, sometimes even table top devices to km-size particle colliders to unravel the secrets of the universe. In order…

January 25, 2016

Commercialisation of projects developed at Cockcroft Institute

Based on the work developed within QUASAR group at the Cockcroft Institute a new ltd company D-Beam has been established to commercialise some of the results. D-Beam ltd provides optical diagnostics which have been developed as reliable and cost-efficient techniques…

January 18, 2016

A Pathway to New Physics and Numerous Applications

High energy particle beams with extreme luminosities and ultra-bright beams of energetic radiation are ubiquitous tools for studying the structure of matter in a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. Last century saw huge progress in the development of…

January 6, 2016

Academic Training Programme 2015-2016

Winter Term Lecture Poster 2015-2016

December 16, 2015

LA³NET and oPAC Fellows use Lightsaber to Diagnose Particle Beam

In time for the global launch of the latest Star Wars movie “The Force Awakens” LA3NET Fellow Thomas Hoffmann (CERN) and oPAC Fellow Konstantin Kruchinin (Royal Holloway University of London) have published their research results on the use of a…

December 7, 2015

Shortage of accelerator scientists highlighted in New Statesman

The weekly political and cultural magazine New Statesman has just published an article by Prof. Carsten P. Welsch highlighting the risks that a shortage of trained accelerator scientists poses on the advancement of key technologies. This article echoes similar calls…

December 4, 2015

Annual Meeting takes the pulse of EuroCirCol

Last June saw the start of the EU-funded EuroCirCol project, a design study for a post-LHC hadron collider in which the Cockcroft Institute is playing an important role. The study has received 3 M€ within the Horizon 2020 Research…

December 2, 2015

National Particle Accelerator Open Day

Daresbury laboratories played host to the 3rd annual national particle accelerator open day. The national event, sponsored by the IoP Particles and Beams group, opens up the doors of one particle accelerator laboratory each year to undergraduate engineering and physics…