News - The Cockcroft Institute

March 7, 2016

Lasers and Accelerators meet in Rome

Alexandra Alexandrova, from the University of Liverpool and the Cockcroft Institute, participated in the 4th International Conference on Photoptics, Optics and Laser Technology, Photoptics 2016. The conference took place in Rome, Italy, between 27th-29th February. The event featured the latest…

March 4, 2016

CI researchers help improve cancer treatments with new proton imaging technology

Cockcroft Institute researchers are part of a major collaborative project to develop more powerful proton imaging technology that could provide more accurate cancer treatments. Cockcroft Institute researchers from Lancaster University and the University of Manchester are collaborating with clinicians at…

February 26, 2016

£3 Million European Training Network for Particle Beam Cancer Therapy Launched

The Optimization of Medical Accelerators (OMA) started officially on 1 February 2016. OMA is an international collaboration of 31 institutions which during the four year project duration will train 15 early stage researchers in the field of particle…

February 24, 2016

The Cockcroft Institute develops novel accelerator for cancer therapy and imaging using protons

Radiotherapy, most commonly with x-rays, is a widely used and effective form of cancer treatment. Using protons instead of x-rays allows better localisation of the radiation dose to the tumour and therefore less damage the surrounding healthy tissue. New imaging…

February 12, 2016

New Study confirms Antihydrogen Charge is Neutral

A recent experimental result published in Nature by the ALPHA collaboration, improves upon the direct measurement of antihydrogen charge neutrality. This is a precision test conducted in pursuit of answers to the question of why the universe today is predominantly…

February 8, 2016

Future Circular Collider Meeting in Rome

The second Annual Meeting of the Future Circular Collider study will take place from 11 to 15 April 2016 in Rome. The meeting brings together the world’s leading scientists and engineers and relevant industry representatives to set the goals for…

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…