News - The Cockcroft Institute

December 11, 2011

6 M€ EU Project on Accelerator R&D will be coordinated by the Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool

The optimization of the performance of any particle accelerator critically depends on an in-depth understanding of the beam dynamics in the machine and the availability of simulation tools to study and continuously improve all accelerator components. It also requires a…

December 5, 2011

Symposium in celebration of five years of the Cockcroft Institute

November 25, 2011

First scanning of near field optical images of oesophageal cancer using the InfraRed Free Electron Laser (IRFEL)

A research collaboration between the Cockcroft Institute (including its stake holding partners: University of Liverpool Physics department and STFC Daresbury Laboratory’s ASTeC department), the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust, the National Research Council ISM of Rome Tor…

November 14, 2011

DITANET Conference held in Seville, Spain

The DITANET Consortium held a three day international conference on diagnostic techniques for particle accelerators and beam instrumentation in Seville, Spain between 9th and 11th November 2011. The conference was hosted by DITANET partner University of Seville/Centro Nacional de Aceleradores…

October 21, 2011

Fifth DITANET Topical Workshop on Technology Transfer

The fifth DITANET Topical Workshop on Technology Transfer was held on 29th and 30th September 2011. It was hosted by Instrumentation Technologies in Solkan, Slovenia and co-organised with Instrumentation Technologies’ annual Libera Workshop which discusses beam stability issues from the…

October 21, 2011

Fourth DITANET Topical Workshop on High Intensity Proton Beam Diagnostics

The DITANET Topical Workshop on High intensity Proton Beam Diagnostics took place on 26th and 27th September, 2011 at Massy close to Paris. In all there were 35 participants from 10 countries who contributed to the workshop and made it…

October 17, 2011

£4M EU Project on Laser R&D will be coordinated by the Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool

The advancement of science and engineering in the past decades is inherently linked to the development of lasers. Ever higher laser beam powers, brightness and shorter pulse lengths have helped establish them as an invaluable tool for both a wide…

October 6, 2011

CI Postgraduate Conference

The Cockcroft Institute held its first Postgraduate Conference on the 5th October. Several presentations were given by PhD students from each of the universities on a wide range of topics from advanced electromagnetic theory, simulations of the LHC and other…

October 4, 2011

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

"The crab cavities present an even bigger challenge because they have never been used to kick a beam of protons in the transverse direction, not least at a steady rate of 40 MHz. Much of the R&D for crab cavities, which…