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November 18, 2024

Major milestone in delivery of RF cavities for PIP-II

Researchers at Daresbury, including members of the Cockcroft Institute, are a key part of the delivery of the FermiLab led Proton Improvement Plan II (PIP-II) project. The expertise in testing RF cavities at Daresbury, including years of building experience working…
November 15, 2024

10th Particle Accelerator Engineering Network annual meeting

The 10th Particle Accelerator Engineering Network annual meeting took place at the Cockcroft Institute on the 6th September The network was jointly created by the IET, IMechE, IoP and STFC and is hosted by the IET as one of their…
October 23, 2024

EuPRAXIA holds Satellite Meeting during BSBF 2024

EuPRAXIA took centre stage at the Big Science Business Forum (BSBF) 2024, hosting a satellite meeting which showcased its pioneering work in plasma-based accelerators and its critical role in advancing a key new European research infrastructure. The meeting was organized…
October 21, 2024

PhD Successes from Lancaster

Clockwise: Dr Alex Warwick, Dr Dan Turner, Dr Sam Smith and Dr Matt Southerby. The Cockcroft Institute congratulates four of its PhD students who have graduated over the last few months. Dan Turner and Sam Smith passed their PhD viva…
October 16, 2024

New lecturer joins the Cockcroft Institute

Dr Andrea Santamaria Garcia will join the Cockcroft Institute as a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool in early 2025. Andrea specialises in machine learning applied to particle accelerators, with the aim of improving the performance of existing accelerators and…
October 14, 2024

The Cockcroft Institute celebrates its 20th anniversary

The Cockcroft Institute of Accelerator Science and Technology celebrated its 20th birthday on Friday the 20th September 2024 at Daresbury Laboratory. Approximately twenty years ago, accelerator science was re-established in UK universities and this initiative led to the creation of…
September 27, 2024

£400k awarded for breakthrough imaging research

Cockcroft scientist Professor Carsten P Welsch and experts from his QUASAR Group have secured £400k in funding from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) for their innovative OptiX project. This two-year project, supported under the UK Research and Innovation’s…
September 25, 2024

CI research highlighted by US Department of Energy

The Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science in the US recently published a highlight, “Ice-Cold Plasma Electron Beams Prepare to Power Future Hard X-ray Laser Beams,” about a CI scientific research paper from the University of Strathclyde. The respective program areas…