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October 25, 2023

UK delivers prototype superconducting crab cavity cryomodule to CERN as part of High Luminosity upgrade to LHC

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is one of the largest scientific experiments ever built. Over the last 13 years, the LHC has opened up a new frontier of discovery in…

October 23, 2023

LIV.INNO data science CDT welcomes new cohort of PhD students

A kick off meeting for the new cohort of LIV.INNO students who started their PhDs at the beginning of October has taken place in Liverpool. It was the first chance…

October 16, 2023

CI student wins early-career engineer poster competition

The particle accelerator engineering network held an early-career engineering poster competition during this year’s Particle Accelerator Engineering Network (PAEN) annual meeting. The competition was open to graduate engineers and engineering…

October 13, 2023

PsiQuantum opens R&D facility at Daresbury Laboratory to develop quantum computing

Silicon Valley start-up PsiQuantum received £9 million UK government funding to open its first advanced research and development (R&D) facility outside of the US at the Science and Technology Facilities…

October 11, 2023

9th Particle Accelerator Engineering Network annual meeting held at RAL

The 9th Particle Accelerator Engineering Network (PAEN) annual meeting took place at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) on the 6th October 2023. The network was jointly created by the IET,…

September 27, 2023

Breakthrough in understanding gravitational effects on antimatter

In a paper published today in Nature, the ALPHA collaboration at CERN’s Antimatter Factory shows that, within the precision of their experiment, atoms of antihydrogen – a positron orbiting an antiproton – fall to Earth…

September 13, 2023

CI physicists involved in Muon g-2 experiment

An international team of scientists have carried out the most precise measurement ever of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. The results could point to the existence of yet…

August 25, 2023

Cockcroft expert appointed as STFC Council member

A leading University of Liverpool researcher has been appointed to the Council of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Professor Carsten P Welsch, Head of Liverpool’s Accelerator Science cluster…

August 15, 2023

Vacuum Symposium attracts visitors from across the UK

The 12th UK Vacuum symposium was held on 13th and 14th June 2023 at Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington, UK drawing nearly 100 visitors. The UK’s premier vacuum technology event is now…