Cockcroft Institute researchers in collaboration with CERN have been exploring novel technologies for major savings in the energy consumption and cost of future accelerators, as an article that has just…
As the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps the globe, many countries have gone into lockdown. Schools, restaurants, and other non-essential businesses were instructed to temporarily closed their doors. Light source facilities, however,…
STFC has launched a call for the next round of Ernest Rutherford Fellowships. Its aim is to support future scientific leaders to establish a strong, independent research programme. The fellowships…
The core objective of the Cockcroft Institute (CI) is to design and develop powerful instruments of discovery, particle accelerators, that enable scientists from many disciplines to elucidate the structure of…
From the 3-5 June 2020 the PERLE collaboration held a virtual meeting with about 50 participants. The goal of the PERLE Collaboration is to work towards the design and eventual construction of…
The online magazine News Medical has recently published an interview with CI expert Professor Carsten P. Welsch. In the interview, Prof Welsch explains the basic principles of proton beam therapy…
The Cockcroft Institute is taking part in a new project to design and develop new radiotherapy technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa, giving more cancer patients access to radiotherapy, and saving lives.…
Congratulations to Professor Jim Clarke, who has been confirmed by STFC executive board as the new director of the Accelerator Science and Technology Centre at Daresbury. Jim will take over…
Every year the international particle accelerator community gathers for the International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC), the largest regular gathering in the field of accelerator physics. The 2020 conference was due…