The Cockcroft Institute

July 3, 2017

Non-invasive beam profile monitor based on supersonic gas jet

Dr. Hao Zhang of the University of Liverpool Non-interceptive beam profile monitors are of great importance for many particle accelerators worldwide. Extra challenges are posed by high-energy, high-intensity machines and low energy low-intensity accelerators. For these applications, existing diagnostics are…

July 3, 2017

High power laser-driven dense GeV e-e+ pairs production

Prof. Tongpu Yu Visiting Professor at University of Strathclyde The Breit-Wheeler (BW) process can be triggered by high power lasers. However, the straightforward laser-laser colliding for copious numbers of pair creation requires light intensities several orders of magnitude higher than…

June 20, 2016

CLARA: From ideas to reality

Prof. Brian McNeil of the University of Strathclyde Short wavelength FELs are in their infancy. Current XFEL facilities are the equivalent of the first conventional ruby and early gas lasers. If built today, the proposed CLARA FEL test facility would…

June 13, 2016

Laser-driven ion acceleration from ultra thin foil targets

Prof. Paul McKenna of the University of Strathclyde Recent progress in high power laser technology enables laser intensities up to 10^21 W/cm^2 to be achieved. Such lasers are now available in a number of laboratories worldwide. Typical pulses have durations…

May 19, 2016

Quantum Sensors for Fundamental and Information Science

Prof. Swapan Chattopadhyay Distinguished Scientist and Director’s Senior Leadership Team, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA and Presidential Chair of Research, Scholarship and Artistry, Director of Accelerator Research Northern Illinois University, USA Tremendous advances have been made in the last two decades…

May 19, 2016

Microwave suppression of surface resistance and dissipation limits in superconducting resonator cavities at strong RF fields.

Prof. Alexander Gurevich Old Dominion University, Department of Physics, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA Microwave suppression of surface resistance Rs(w,Ha) in the Meissner state of superconductors under strong electromagnetic fields H(t) = Hacos(wt) at low temperatures T << Tc is discussed.…

April 25, 2016

Terahertz Acceleration and Sub-Femtosecond X-ray Production

Prof. Franz X Kartner Center for Free-Electron Laser Science, DESY, and Department of Physics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany We report on experimental advances towards the development of a compact high-brilliance sub-femtosecond relativistic electron source based entirely on optical and…

November 2, 2015

Activities on Beam Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration

Dr Oznur Mete of the University of Manchester The particle accelerator community is in pursuit of advanced technologies that will allow more efficient, compact and cost-effective accelerators. Developing such technologies will open a new era for particle colliders as well…

March 3, 2015

Micromanaging laser-plasma interactions for fast accelerator science

Dr Nicholas Matlis Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory