First beam enters the AWAKE experiment at CERN The Advanced Proton Driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration Experiment (AWAKE) aims at studying plasma wakefield generation and electron acceleration driven by proton bunches.…
Have you ever wondered what happens at an international Science Laboratory ? Well, here’s your chance to find out ! Daresbury Laboratory will open its doors for children and adults…
This year’s International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC’16) took place at the BEXCO Convention Centre, located in the lively and scenic Haeundae District of Busan, South Korea. IPAC’16 was the seventh…
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…