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September 19, 2016

AVA ‘SPARCs’ enthusiasm

Following on from the successful tests which mark the beginning of the commissioning of the Cryring accelerator into the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) at GSI, there was…

September 16, 2016

QUASAR Group leads session at Europe’s largest higher education conference

More than 5000 higher education professionals from all corners of the world have participated in the 28th European Association for International Education’s (EAIE) annual conference held in Liverpool, 13th –…

September 7, 2016

Multimillion Pound Project on Antimatter Research announced

The AVA project will allow cutting edge research and promote training innovations AVA (Accelerators Validating Antimatter physics) is a new European research and training network between universities, research centres and…

September 5, 2016

QUASAR Group Research Coordinator

There is an exciting 5 year position vacancy in the QUASAR Group, University of Liverpool. The Group is based at the Cockcroft Institute where it carries out a broad and…

August 31, 2016

“A Cool Investigation into Antiproton Beam Dynamics”

A new paper published in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics A will help scientists provide higher quality antiproton beams to experiments at CERN and antimatter facilities across the world.…

August 5, 2016

OMA Steering Committee meets at GSI

The Optimization of Medical Accelerators (OMA) is an international collaboration of 33 institutions which during the four year project duration will train 15 early stage researchers in the field of…

July 22, 2016

No slowing down of Cockcroft Outreach Activities

Following on from the highly successful Daresbury Open Week, last Thursday, 14th July, saw even more outreach events attended by members of the Cockcroft Institute. The first event involved children…

July 13, 2016

Accelerators for Science and Society

Daresbury Laboratory and the Cockcroft Institute have opened their doors to the general public. Last weekend saw more than 7,500 visitors come to Daresbury Laboratory for the conclusion of the…

July 6, 2016

Researcher Careers Workshop in Krakow

The QUASAR Group, located at the Cockcroft Institute, organised a Researcher’s Career Workshop hosted in the beautifully preserved city of Krakow, Poland, June 26 – 27, 2016. Expertly executed by…