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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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October 23, 2023

LIV.INNO data science CDT welcomes new cohort of PhD students

A kick off meeting for the new cohort of LIV.INNO students who started their PhDs at the beginning of October has taken place in Liverpool. It was the first chance for the eleven students who started in 2023 and their…
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October 16, 2023

CI student wins early-career engineer poster competition

The particle accelerator engineering network held an early-career engineering poster competition during this year’s Particle Accelerator Engineering Network (PAEN) annual meeting. The competition was open to graduate engineers and engineering students either in industry, national laboratories or universities, and open…
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