Between January – April 2026, the CLARA facility at Daresbury Laboratory successfully hosted a first run of friendly user experiments at its design energy of 250 MeV. This follows the…
The Cockcroft Institute (CI) through experts from the University of Liverpool is playing a leading role in four newly awarded Horizon Europe projects that will help define the next generation…
The Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC), through its Radiological and Medical Sciences Research Institute (RAMSRI), has successfully hosted a high-level international training workshop under the Supra-African Physics Partnership for Health…
Researchers, accelerator experts, and industrial stakeholders from across Europe gathered at Technische Universität Darmstadt on 7–8 May 2026 for the ARTIFACT-DN Workshop, a strategic meeting dedicated to preparing a competitive…
The PACRI (Plasma Accelerator systems for Compact Research Infrastructures) project held its first annual meeting at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Lisbon, Portugal from 24th to 26th March. With…
We are pleased to announce that CI expert Professor Rob Appleby has been appointed Associate Vice President for Students at the University of Manchester. In his new role, Rob will…
The fourth edition of the Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Accelerators (RL4AA’26) workshop was held in Liverpool from 30th March to 1st April 2026 as a LIV.INNO workshop. The workshop also…
The University of Liverpool’s QUASAR Group, based at the Cockcroft Institute, is delighted to celebrate the successful completion of three doctoral theses by Ondrej Sedlacek, Oliver Stringer and Catherine Swain. Their work spans cutting-edge accelerator…
A major milestone has been reached in efforts to transform particle-beam therapy and radiobiology, as the team behind the LhARA collaboration publishes a Conceptual Design Report (CDR) for the Ion…