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July 15, 2015

First Transverse Phase Space Tomography Results on VELA

ASTeC and the University of Liverpool have completed the first tomographic reconstructions of the VELA transverse phase space, allowing us to characterise the full 4- dimensional beam distribution. The images show the normalised phase space determined from data collected on…
July 13, 2015

International Conference on Accelerator Optimization

The Cockcroft Institute has teamed up with the University of Seville’s Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (CNA) to organize the first International Conference on Accelerator Optimization. The conference, funded by the oPAC Marie Curie Initial Training Network and coordinated by Prof.…
July 8, 2015

Cockcroft Researcher awarded RSE/STFC Fellowship

We are delighted to announce that physicist Alexandra Alexandrova, a Fellow within the LA³NET project, was awarded a Royal Society of Edinburgh/STFC Enterprise Fellowship. RSE Enterprise Fellowships enable promising science and technology researchers to grow into successful entrepreneurs. This prestigious…
July 2, 2015

Audience inspired at Laser and Accelerator Showcase

An international Symposium on Lasers and Accelerators for Science & Society took place on the 26th of June in the Liverpool Arena Convention Centre. The Symposium was coordinated by Prof. Carsten P. Welsch of the University of Liverpool and the…
July 2, 2015

Particle Accelerators for Medicine – a UK Perspective

Particle accelerators have been used for medicine since the earliest days after their invention, and already in 1896 Herbert Jackson realised that the greater energies and superior directionality afforded by accelerated particles could be advantageous over decay radiation for the…
July 2, 2015

Advanced Researcher Career Skills Workshop

The transition to permanent employment from postgraduate research is a challenging prospect in an ever more competitive job market. The European networks oPAC and LA3NET, both coordinated by the University of Liverpool from the Cockcroft Institute, have held a joint…
July 1, 2015

Successful First Run with New Deflecting Cavity on VELA

The first commissioning with beam has been made with the new Transverse Deflecting Cavity on VELA. Use of this cavity allows the longitudinal properties of the electron beam to be resolved, thus it forms a key component in the suite…
May 17, 2015

Lasers & Accelerators for Science and Society

Particle accelerators have numerous applications across many fields including fundamental research, medicine, electronics, environment and energy. As the limits of performance are reached new methods for particle acceleration and beam optimisation are needed. Lasers will play a key role in the development of accelerators by…