The Cockcroft Institute offers a vibrant environment for cutting edge R&D into the science and technology of particle accelerators. For many years the institute has helped researchers to secure prestigious Fellowships that enable them…
The Cockcroft Institute has a unique track record in the coordination of pan-European training networks and has coordinated no less than 5 such initiatives over the past decade. Defining new…
Scientists from across Europe gathered in Liverpool last week to discuss the future of plasma accelerators, advanced laser technology, and industry opportunities alongside a discussion of research progress made within…
Superconductor Science and Technology (SUST) is an international multidisciplinary journal for papers on all aspects of superconductivity. It covers theories of superconductivity, the relation of microstructure and growth to superconducting properties,…
Well, it’s been a busy few months in our Institute’s postgraduate programme, so here’s a roundup of what’s been going on. As some of you know – if you’ve been…
Today marks the official ground-breaking ceremony and hence the beginning of the works to upgrade the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to the High Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC). This important upgrade will…
Between the 29 April and 4 May this year, physicists and engineers from around the world gathered in Vancouver, Canada for the 9th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC 18). I…
The Cockcroft Institute hosted the first of hopefully many summer schools as part of the Accelerators for Security, Healthcare and the Environment (ASHE) centre for doctoral training starting on Tuesday…
Experts from across the Cockcroft Institute, working closely with colleagues at CERN, have contributed to a technology breakthrough that promises to revolutionise the world of high energy particle physics and is a crucial step…