Cockcroft Phase 4
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
Science has underpinned human progress for centuries. It has improved our quality of life and helps us understand our place in the Universe. The days when important breakthroughs could be achieved by a researcher working alone in a laboratory with minimal equipment are long gone. Now, the most important insights in science demand that researchers work in teams, collaborating between universities and laboratories and across national boundaries, often hand-in-hand with expert industrial partners. They also demand the best and most sophisticated equipment.
The Cockcroft Institute reflects these changes. Its purpose is to research, design and develop particle accelerators, machines that can be used to reveal the nature of matter, to probe what happened at the instant the universe was born and to develop new materials and healthcare tools to improve our quality of life. These machines are at the cutting-edge of technology, pushing to the limits our ability to control and understand processes happening at the smallest scales, and at the speed of light. They range from fairly small instruments built to support the semi-conductor industry, airport security and radiotherapy to enormous facilities providing intense, high energy beams of particles to create and probe the innermost workings of atoms. The global economy can afford only a few of these latter machines and so they demand collaboration between multi-national teams of the world's best scientists and engineers.
The Cockcroft Institute - a collaboration between academia, national laboratories, industry and local economy - brings together the best accelerator scientists, engineers, educators and industrialists to conceive, design, construct and use innovative instruments of discovery at all scales and lead the UK's participation in flagship international experiments. It stimulates the curiosity of emerging minds via the education of the future generation and engages with industrial partners to generate wealth for the community that sustains us.
Established more than a fifteen years ago, the Cockcroft Institute is increasingly focusing its attention on three parallel and complementary activities:
- Contributions to near future scientific frontier facilities based on incremental advances to conventional accelerating technologies
- Ground-breaking research in novel methods of particle acceleration which have the long term potential to yield much more compact types of particle accelerators
- Applications of accelerators to address global challenges in healthcare, security, energy, manufacturing and the environment.
The Cockcroft Institute reflects these changes. Its purpose is to research, design and develop particle accelerators, machines that can be used to reveal the nature of matter, to probe what happened at the instant the universe was born and to develop new materials and healthcare tools to improve our quality of life. These machines are at the cutting-edge of technology, pushing to the limits our ability to control and understand processes happening at the smallest scales, and at the speed of light. They range from fairly small instruments built to support the semi-conductor industry, airport security and radiotherapy to enormous facilities providing intense, high energy beams of particles to create and probe the innermost workings of atoms. The global economy can afford only a few of these latter machines and so they demand collaboration between multi-national teams of the world's best scientists and engineers.
The Cockcroft Institute - a collaboration between academia, national laboratories, industry and local economy - brings together the best accelerator scientists, engineers, educators and industrialists to conceive, design, construct and use innovative instruments of discovery at all scales and lead the UK's participation in flagship international experiments. It stimulates the curiosity of emerging minds via the education of the future generation and engages with industrial partners to generate wealth for the community that sustains us.
Established more than a fifteen years ago, the Cockcroft Institute is increasingly focusing its attention on three parallel and complementary activities:
- Contributions to near future scientific frontier facilities based on incremental advances to conventional accelerating technologies
- Ground-breaking research in novel methods of particle acceleration which have the long term potential to yield much more compact types of particle accelerators
- Applications of accelerators to address global challenges in healthcare, security, energy, manufacturing and the environment.
Organisations
Publications
King M
(2025)
A Systematic Investigation of Beam Losses and Position-Reconstruction Techniques Measured with a Novel oBLM at CLEAR
in Instruments
Setiniyaz S
(2025)
Beam breakup instability studies of powerful energy recovery linac for experiments
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Leggieri A
(2025)
Harmonic Klystron Frequency Converter
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Wanstall HC
(2024)
VHEE FLASH sparing effect measured at CLEAR, CERN with DNA damage of pBR322 plasmid as a biological endpoint.
in Scientific reports
Siaber SS
(2024)
Corrugated waveguide with matched phase and group velocities: an extended regime of wave-beam interaction.
in Optics express
Nechaeva T
(2024)
Hosing of a Long Relativistic Particle Bunch in Plasma
in Physical Review Letters
Perera T
(2024)
Seeded Self-Modulation of Elliptical Beams in Plasma Wakefields
Geng P
(2024)
Efficient muon acceleration in laser wakefields driven by single or combined laser pulses
in Physics of Plasmas
Fuchs M
(2024)
Plasma-based particle sources
in Journal of Instrumentation
Patel,Milaan
(2024)
Ionization profile monitor for in-vivo dosimetry in medical accelerators
Soomary L
(2024)
Characterisation of a Cs-Implanted Cu Photocathode
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Whitmore L
(2024)
CERN-based experiments and Monte-Carlo studies on focused dose delivery with very high energy electron (VHEE) beams for radiotherapy applications
in Scientific Reports
Wilson T
(2024)
Numerical studies of collinear laser-assisted injection from a foil for plasma wakefield accelerators
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Southerby M
(2024)
Beam dynamics framework incorporating acceleration to define the minimum aperture in two focusing schemes for proton radiotherapy linac
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Yin L
(2024)
Generation of polarized electron beams through self-injection in the interaction of a laser with a pre-polarized plasma
in High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Castro Sequeiro C
(2024)
Beam gas curtain monitor: Vacuum studies for LHC integration and operation
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Volponi M
(2024)
TALOS (Total Automation of LabVIEW Operations for Science): A framework for autonomous control systems for complex experiments
in Review of Scientific Instruments
Wang Y
(2024)
Fast efficient photon deceleration in plasmas by using two laser pulses at different frequencies
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Pongchalee P
(2024)
Unaveraged simulations of a cavity based free electron laser
in Results in Physics
Ben-Zvi I
(2024)
Conceptual design of a high reactive-power ferroelectric fast reactive tuner
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Cowie L
(2024)
Calculation of RF pulse evolution due to dispersion in travelling wave linacs using Fourier methods
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
An X
(2024)
On the spin-quantization-axis selection for the spin polarization modeling during laser-electron collision
in Physics of Plasmas
Accettura C
(2024)
Erratum: Towards a muon collider
in The European Physical Journal C
Song HH
(2024)
From linear to nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in laser-solid interactions.
in Physical review. E
Dalton P
(2024)
Cryogenically cooled periodically poled lithium niobate wafer stacks for multi-cycle terahertz pulses
in Applied Physics Letters
Soubelet F
(2024)
Local Interaction Region Coupling Correction for the LHC
MartÃn-Luna P
(2024)
Hydrodynamic Model for Particle Beam-Driven Wakefield in Carbon Nanotubes
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Wolfenden J
(2024)
Novel radiometric imaging diagnostics for charged particle beams
Jiang X
(2024)
Anomalous hot electron generation via stimulated Raman scattering in plasma with up-ramp density profiles
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Jones L
(2024)
Mean transverse energy, surface chemical and physical characterization of CERN-made Cs-Te photocathodes
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Glöggler L
(2024)
Positronium Laser Cooling via the 1 3 S - 2 3 P Transition with a Broadband Laser Pulse
in Physical Review Letters
Li BY
(2024)
Spectral modulation of high-order harmonics in relativistic laser-solid interaction.
in Physical review. E
Volponi M
(2024)
CIRCUS: an autonomous control system for antimatter, atomic and quantum physics experiments
in EPJ Quantum Technology
Zhang L
(2024)
Feedhorn Synthesis Using a Parameterized Aperture Field Distribution
in IEEE Electron Device Letters
Nix L
(2024)
Terahertz-driven acceleration of subrelativistic electron beams using tapered rectangular dielectric-lined waveguides
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Verra L
(2024)
Filamentation of a relativistic proton bunch in plasma.
in Physical review. E
Ross A
(2024)
Resonant excitation of plasma waves in a plasma channel
in Physical Review Research
Zhang,Hao
(2024)
BGC monitor: first year of operation at the LHC
Wanstall HC
(2024)
First in vitro measurement of VHEE relative biological effectiveness (RBE) in lung and prostate cancer cells using the ARES linac at DESY.
in Scientific reports
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| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
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| Title | Dataset of moment coordinate transformations |
| Description | The dataset used to generate the results in "Moment tracking and their coordinate transformations for macroparticles with an application to plasmas around black holes", available as a preprint at https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01276 PhaseSpaceData contains the data used to generate figure 5. SchwarzschildResults contains the data used to generate figure 7a and figure 8a. KruskalSzekeresResults contains the data used to generate figure 7b and 8b. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2023 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| URL | https://zenodo.org/record/8082180 |