On 15 July 2023, the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Daresbury Daresbury Laboratory opens its doors to the public will once again open its doors to visitors. Book your…
Following the success of last year’s inaugural Particle Accelerators and Beams Annual Conference in Liverpool, the organising committee has announced PAB 2023. The conference will take place on 29th and 30th June 2023 at…
The recently launched book Collision: Stories from the science of CERN is the culmination of a unique, two-year-long collaboration between fiction writers and pioneering physicists. As part of Comma’s Science-into-Fiction series,…
Cockcroft Institute (CI) members past and present gathered in the Daresbury Laboratory atrium on the 19th of April for a special lunch to say goodbye to our long-standing retired Director…
STFC is about to launch a call for the next round of Ernest Rutherford Fellowships. It aims to support future scientific leaders to establish a strong, independent research programme. The…
An event about the History of UK particle accelerators has taken place at the Cockcroft Institute (Daresbury Laboratory) and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory as well as online. The event took…
The Cockcroft Institute is pleased to announce Professor Stewart Boogert as the new Director of the Institute. As director, Professor Boogert will drive the continued growth and development of the…
The online game Surfatron, designed by CI member Ricardo Torres has proven a useful tool to convey the challenges of plasma wakefield acceleration to a broad range of audiences. The…
Accelerators use a huge amount of electrical energy, both to create high-energy beams and to steer and focus those beams. In the vast majority of cases, the steering and focusing…