British physicist and former STFC Excecutive Chair Mark Thomson began his five-year mandate as CERN General Director on 1 January 2026, taking over from Fabiola Gianotti. Much of his earlier…
Cockcroft Institute researchers at the University of Strathclyde have successful commissioned a laser-driven proton source platform at the Scottish Centre for the Application of Plasma-based Accelerators (SCAPA) and completed three…
As one of the founding members of CERN, the UK has a long history of contributing to its physics and engineering projects. In recognition of recent successes in UK-CERN accelerator…
On Monday, 24 November 2025, leading figures from UK research, industry and government convened at the Innovation for Growth Summit in London, hosted by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) in…
A groundbreaking study involving members of the University of Liverpool’s QUASAR Group, based at the Cockcroft Institute, has been selected as this week’s cover story for Physical Review Letters (PRL), highlighting an advance that…
Over the last months, several PhD students affiliated with the Cockcroft Institute have successfully concluded their theses, marking an important step forward in their research paths. Alexander Morris from passed…
A novel beam diagnostic instrument developed by researchers in the University of Liverpool’s QUASAR Group has achieved a major milestone: full operational approval for use in the Large Hadron Collider…
This year’s Cockcroft Institute Postgraduate Researcher Conference 2025 took place on the 15th October at Daresbury Laboratory. Students from across the Institute presented their work in three talk sessions and…
After eight and a half years, scientists and engineers from STFC, many of them based at the Cockcroft Institute, successfully completed the supply of high beta cavities (HBC) to the…