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April 22, 2015

Worrying Skills Shortage in Accelerator R&D

There are more than thirty thousand particle accelerators in the world, ranging from the linear accelerators used for cancer therapy in modern hospitals to the giant 'atom-smashers' at international particle physics laboratories used to unlock the secrets of creation. The…
April 2, 2015

Cockcroft Scientist elected as FLAIR Spokesperson

Antiprotons, stored and cooled at low energies in a storage ring or at rest in traps, are highly desirable for the investigation of a large number of basic questions on fundamental interactions, on the static structure of exotic antiprotonic atomic systems…
April 2, 2015

Postdoc Vacancy in Beam Diagnostics R&D

Beam diagnostics systems are essential constituents of any particle accelerator; they reveal the properties of a beam and how it behaves in a machine. Without an appropriate set of diagnostic elements, it would simply be impossible to operate any accelerator…
April 2, 2015

The Daresbury Laboratory Particle Physics Masterclass 2015

[caption id="attachment_2574" align="alignleft" width="300"] Students discover the ‘power of vacuum' using a pair of Magdeburg Spheres[2] , supervised by Penny Jones of Withington Girls School 6th form (‘graduate’ of the 2014 Masterclass)[/caption]Daresbury Laboratory held its Particle Physics Masterclass over 3 days…
April 1, 2015

Workshop and International Conference organized by the Cockcroft Institute

The Cockcroft Institute-coordinated project LA3NET delivered a workshop on Beam Diagnostics and an International Conference on Laser Applications at Accelerators between 23-27 March on Mallorca, Spain. The workshop discussed the current state-of-the-art and future trends in optical diagnostics for charged…
March 18, 2015

Computer-aided Optimization of Accelerators

The oPAC network, coordinated by the Cockcroft Institute, has organised a three-day long workshop on Computer-Aided optimisation of Accelerators (CAoPAC) at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany from 10 – 13 March 2015. oPAC is…
March 3, 2015

And the Oscar goes to…

Particle accelerators are a key technology for many different research areas: they enable scientific discoveries through ‘particle smashers’ such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, new ways to beat cancer through ion beam cancer therapy, and are the basis…
February 18, 2015

VIP tour of CERN

Lancaster's Vice-Chancellor, Mark E. Smith, was given a VIP tour of CERN last December, in order to see some of the exciting research being done by Lancaster and Cockcroft staff at CERN. The visit included a tour of CMS (Compact…
February 4, 2015

PhD Vacancies at the Cockcroft Institute

The Cockcroft Institute is delighted to announce several PhD project opportunities for start in October 2015. Candidates have the possibility to work on experimental or theoretical topics in one or several of the following fields: Development of innovative beam diagnostic…