The winners of the 2021 Cockcroft Institute Early Career Excellence Awards have been announced. The committee decided to award two prizes for Best Sustained Contribution and one prize for the…
On the 29th of March the Cockcroft Institute hosted its annual Accelerator and Particle Physics Masterclass (APPMC), one of our flagship annual outreach events. The purpose is to give a…
The terahertz (THz) radiation domain spans between the microwave (MW) and the infrared (IR) regions on the electromagnetic spectrum. Previously, unexplored due to the lack of suitable electronic, various disciplines…
The 31st Linear Accelerator Conference (LINAC) is coming to Liverpool this summer. The conference, hosted jointly by UKRI-STFC, the John Adams Institute and the Cockcroft Institute, will take place at…
The QUASAR Group from the University of Liverpool, based at the Cockcroft Institute, has successfully delivered a gas jet-based beam monitor to CERN. This advanced monitor was developed as part…
The University of Liverpool, in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University, are to host a new £1.3 million Centre for Doctoral Training providing comprehensive postgraduate training in data intensive science.…
The University of Manchester has opened a new lectureship in accelerator physics at the Cockcroft Institute (UK). The university is seeking to appoint a scientist with an established record of…
Energy Recovery Linacs (ERLs) reuse the kinetic energy of an accelerated electron bunch by transferring it to a freshly injected bunch. This mechanism enables a large reduction in the RF…
As international scientists gathered online to discuss the Future Circular Collider (FCC) the University of Liverpool hosted the public event ’21st Century Particle Physics: discussions on Science and Faith’ at…