Several members of the Cockcroft Institute (CI) have recently attended the International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’26) in Deauville, France. For a week each year the accelerator community gathers to discuss…
Alessandro Frasca’s latest work has been selected as Editor’s Choice in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams – a recognition that highlights the significance of this contribution to the design of…
A particle accelerator-themed escape room (Acceler8Escape) has been developed at the Cockcroft Institute, providing a unique way to engage participants of all ages with accelerator science. Created by Dr Morgan…
In March, during British Science Week, our popular Particle Physics Masterclasses ran again at Daresbury Laboratory (DL) and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), with support from Diamond Light Source and Boulby…
Between January – April 2026, the CLARA facility at Daresbury Laboratory successfully hosted a first run of friendly user experiments at its design energy of 250 MeV. This follows the…
The Cockcroft Institute (CI) through experts from the University of Liverpool is playing a leading role in four newly awarded Horizon Europe projects that will help define the next generation…
The Ghana Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC), through its Radiological and Medical Sciences Research Institute (RAMSRI), has successfully hosted a high-level international training workshop under the Supra-African Physics Partnership for Health…
Researchers, accelerator experts, and industrial stakeholders from across Europe gathered at Technische Universität Darmstadt on 7–8 May 2026 for the ARTIFACT-DN Workshop, a strategic meeting dedicated to preparing a competitive…
The PACRI (Plasma Accelerator systems for Compact Research Infrastructures) project held its first annual meeting at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Lisbon, Portugal from 24th to 26th March. With…