In an article just published in physicsworld the head of the Liverpool Accelerator Physics Group at the Cockcroft Institute, Prof. Carsten P. Welsch, discusses some of the particular challenges linked to laser plasma accelerators.…
CI student Matthew Cliffe has received the Springer Thesis Award for his PhD work on the generation of longitudinally polarised terahertz radiation for the energy manipulation of relativistic electron…
Since 1990 the LEAP (Low Energy Antiproton Physics) conference is held every two or three years to discuss the latest findings and exchange information about research with low energy antiprotons.…
The CLARA Free Electron Laser test facility currently under construction at Daresbury Laboratory requires a high brightness electron photoinjector: an RF photocathode source, capable of operating at a 400 Hz repetition…
Daresbury Laboratory recently held its Particle Physics Masterclass over the 3 days between March 1st and 3rd. The event was organised and publicised by the Daresbury public engagement team, and…
Alexandra Alexandrova, from the University of Liverpool and the Cockcroft Institute, participated in the 4th International Conference on Photoptics, Optics and Laser Technology, Photoptics 2016. The conference took place in…
Cockcroft Institute researchers are part of a major collaborative project to develop more powerful proton imaging technology that could provide more accurate cancer treatments. Cockcroft Institute researchers from Lancaster University…
The Optimization of Medical Accelerators (OMA) started officially on 1 February 2016. OMA is an international collaboration of 31 institutions which during the four year project duration will…
Radiotherapy, most commonly with x-rays, is a widely used and effective form of cancer treatment. Using protons instead of x-rays allows better localisation of the radiation dose to the tumour…