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Symposium in celebration of five years of the Cockcroft Institute

First scanning of near field optical images of oesophageal cancer using the InfraRed Free Electron Laser (IRFEL)

A research collaboration between the Cockcroft Institute (including its stake holding partners: University of Liverpool Physics department and STFC Daresbury Laboratory’s ASTeC department), the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals…

DITANET Conference held in Seville, Spain

The DITANET Consortium held a three day international conference on diagnostic techniques for particle accelerators and beam instrumentation in Seville, Spain between 9th and 11th November 2011. The conference was…

Fifth DITANET Topical Workshop on Technology Transfer

The fifth DITANET Topical Workshop on Technology Transfer was held on 29th and 30th September 2011. It was hosted by Instrumentation Technologies in Solkan, Slovenia   and co-organised with Instrumentation Technologies’…

Fourth DITANET Topical Workshop on High Intensity Proton Beam Diagnostics

The DITANET Topical Workshop on High intensity Proton Beam Diagnostics took place on 26th and 27th September, 2011 at Massy close to Paris. In all there were 35 participants from…

£4M EU Project on Laser R&D will be coordinated by the Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool

The advancement of science and engineering in the past decades is inherently linked to the development of lasers. Ever higher laser beam powers, brightness and shorter pulse lengths have helped…

CI Postgraduate Conference

The Cockcroft Institute held its first Postgraduate Conference on the 5th October. Several presentations were given by PhD students from each of the universities on a wide range of topics…

CERN’s Large Hadron Collider

“The crab cavities present an even bigger challenge because they have never been used to kick a beam of protons in the transverse direction, not least at a steady rate…

COCKCROFT INSTITUTE student Pei Zhang receives IPAC Ph.D. Student Prize at the International Particle Accelerator Conference, 2011

Pei Zhang, a Cockcroft Institute Ph. D. student at the University of Manchester and working at DESY, has been selected for Ph.D. thesis prize at the IPAC 2011 in San…