The Cockroft Institute’s ASTeC team has achieved a major scientific milestone at Daresbury Laboratory. The Compact Linear Accelerator for Research and Applications (CLARA) has successfully accelerated electrons to an energy…
Leading researchers from the AWAKE-UK collaboration met in Daresbury on 2nd July to review progress and chart the future of the UK’s contribution to the Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield…
The 16th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’25) was held from 1 – 6 June 2025 at the International Convention Centre and the Taipei World Trade Centre in the bustling metropolis of Taipei,…
Accelerator science is a constantly evolving field. New technological advances allow large colliders – like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN – to reach higher energies and discover new…
The fourth annual meeting of the EU-funded I.FAST (Innovation Fostering in Accelerator Science and Technology) project, held in Kraków on 8 -11 April 2025, offered an excellent overview of the…
The future of medical technology was brought to life this weekend at the launch of the brand-new outreach box, AI & EYES, developed by the talented team at UK Unplugged…
The EuPRAXIA Doctoral Network (EuPRAXIA-DN) held a two-day Camp on laser and plasma-related technologies, connecting the latest research and development results in these areas with the challenges related to their…
Cockcroft Institute scientists Graeme Burt and Laura Corner, from Lancaster University and the University of Liverpool respectively, together with former Cockcroft member Rebecca Seviour, now at the University of Huddersfield,…
Did you know that the camera sensor in your smartphone could help unlock the secrets of antimatter? Scientists working together in the “Antihydrogen Experiment: Gravity, Interferometry, Spectroscopy” (AEgIS) developed a…