The Cockcroft Institute’s ongoing collaboration with CERN and GSI reaches new heights as the Beam Gas Curtain (BGC) device is installed on the Large Hadron Collider during the year end…
Laser Wakefield Acceleration (LWFA) in plasma is a well-known technique to accelerate electron bunches using infra-red (IR) intense laser pulses. Gas droplets of Helium or Hydrogen are easily ionized driving…
Cockcroft Institute and STFC Daresbury Lab Accelerator Physicist Peter Williams highlights a recent major advance in the February 2023 edition of Nature Physics News & Views. For the first time,…
Cockcroft Institute and University of Manchester Professor Rob Appleby, together with colleagues from INFN (Italy), CERN (Switzerland), and Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (Russia), have edited a special issue of…
Professor Claudio Paoloni, a member of the Cockcroft Institute from Lancaster University, is to become a Distinguished Lecturer at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Electron Devices Society. Professor Paoloni,…
The new 3.2M€ Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network EuPRAXIA-DN started with a kick-off meeting on 16/17 January 2023 in Brussels that brought together all the partners involved in the project…
University of Liverpool physicists are leading a £1M antimatter research project as part of the AEgIs experiment at CERN. The project entitled `Slow Neutral Antimatter Atoms in Excited States for…
An internationally renowned scientist in the field of particle accelerators has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Science by Lancaster University at the December graduation ceremonies. Dr Robert A. Rimmer…
The annual Cockroft Institute Postgraduate Conference (CIPGC) was held on the 15th of November 2022 in the Merrison Lecture Theatre of Daresbury Laboratory. The CIPGC is an important annual event…