The Cockcroft Institute

November 29, 2023

Cockcroft Institute attends National Particle Accelerator Open Day

The National Particle Accelerator Open Day took place at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire on Monday 30th October. It was organised by ISIS Neutron and Muon Source with support from Diamond Light Source, the IoP, IET and STFC and…

November 27, 2023

Liverpool expert invited by EU to share best practice in PGR training

Each year the European Commission organizes a briefing day for coordinators of new networks funded within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). The main objective of these events is to provide a briefing on the key management and procedural aspects of…

November 24, 2023

AWAKE-UK members take the pulse on the project

A group of members and associates of the AWAKE-UK collaboration met online on Friday 10 November to discuss the progress made in the project over the last six months. AWAKE-UK coordinator Matthew Wing gave an overview of the current status…

November 22, 2023

Undergraduate prospective students visit the Cockcroft Institute

A group of a hundred 3rd and 4th year undergraduate students from the universities of Lancaster, Liverpool, Manchester, and Strathclyde, visited Daresbury on Wednesday 8 October to learn about the research carried out in the laboratory as well as the…

November 6, 2023

The Cockcroft Institute opens summer internship programme to industrial collaborations

The Cockcroft Institute runs every summer a student internship programme, where young undergraduates are given the opportunity to work alongside researchers from the institute for six weeks, participating in projects at the forefront of accelerator science and technology. This…

November 3, 2023

CI Postgraduate Conference 2023

The annual Cockcroft Institute Postgraduate Conference (CIPGC) was held on the 17th of October 2023 in the Merrison Lecture Theatre of Daresbury Laboratory. There was a working lunch session where speakers also presented the posters of their talks. The conference…

October 31, 2023

Sinister experiments and strange phenomena at the Cockcroft Institute

Spooky creatures invaded the Cockcroft Institute. Image credit: Cockcroft Institute Within the haunted halls of the Cockcroft Institute (CI), sinister experiments are underway, delving into the realms of particle accelerators and intense sources of radiation. There are many weird and…

October 27, 2023

CI Pumpkin Carving Spooktacular

Yes, it's that time of year again, when pumpkins shiver with anticipation and carving tools sharpen their teeth. In a fang-tastic afternoon filled with laughter, spooky vibes, and the unmistakable scent of pumpkin guts, a group of fearless members of…

October 25, 2023

UK delivers prototype superconducting crab cavity cryomodule to CERN as part of High Luminosity upgrade to LHC

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is one of the largest scientific experiments ever built. Over the last 13 years, the LHC has opened up a new frontier of discovery in fundamental particle physics, providing experimental data for a global user…