A new beam line on CLARA will provide access to ultrashort, low emittance electron bunches combined with a high power 120 TW laser. Titled Full Energy Beam Exploitation (FEBE), it…
CI member and QUASAR Group leader Professor Carsten P Welsch gave an invited talk on the Physics of Star Wars at the American Physical Society’s (APS) March Meeting 2024. This…
Daresbury Laboratory and the Cockcroft Institute (CI) have hosted the highly successful annual Particle Physics and Accelerators Masterclasses (APPMC), one of their flagship annual outreach events, for many years. The…
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) announced on 27 March 2027 that it is investing a total of £481 million into a portfolio of research and innovation infrastructures that will help…
CI member Carsten P. Welsch, Head of the QUASAR Group at the Department of Physics, University of Liverpool, spoke at the recent Annual Recognition event at Knowsley Hall about his…
Over 50 members of the Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) project gathered in Liverpool on 11 – 13 March to review the status of the experiment, share…
The University of Liverpool and Liverpool Cathedral hosted the public event ‘Beyond Boundaries: A Dialogue on Science and Faith’ at the famous Liverpool Cathedral on 5th March 2024. The event…
Daresbury Laboratory has been part of an active and productive collaboration with CERN for many years, focussing on photocathode preparation and characterisation. Recognising Daresbury’s unique capabilities in photocathode characterisation, CERN…
The AEgIS experiment at CERN has made a groundbreaking advancement by successfully demonstrating laser cooling of positronium (Ps), an exotic atom composed equally of matter and antimatter. This significant development,…