Public engagement lies at the heart of the University of Liverpool’s Quantum Systems and advanced Accelerator Research (QUASAR) Group, based at the Cockcroft Institute. Their wide-ranging outreach activities take an imaginative approach…
Cockcroft student Ruth Peacock has won this year’s Particle Accelerator Engineering network Early Career poster prize at the annual meeting. Ruth’s poster was on the effect of H- irradiation on…
For the first time since the launch of the FCC feasibility study, the FCC physics community will gather in hybrid format (in person and online) for the 5th FCC Physics…
How modelling the next generation of electromagnetic materials for particle acceleration led to challenging a fundamental law of physics. A recently published paper co-authored by researchers from the Cockcroft Institute…
Experts from the Cockcroft Institute/University of Liverpool have been awarded Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) funding to develop a novel monitoring system to help optimise proton beam cancer therapy.…
The Particle Accelerator Engineering Network is a collaboration between the IET, IMechE and IoP to support all types of engineers and technicians working in the accelerator field. The network is…
While some of us were enjoying a well-deserved summer break, Cockcroft Institute PhD students have been hard at work finishing their theses. Two of them, Lee Millar and Laurence Nix,…
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) target the development of excellent researchers through international and cross-sector mobility. MSCA networks support joint doctoral programmes, implemented by European partnerships of universities, research institutions, industry…
Novel research points to developing table-top x-ray sources for future applications A new way of producing coherent light in the ultra-violet spectral region, which points the way to developing…