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
MartÃn-Luna P
(2023)
Excitation of wakefields in carbon nanotubes: a hydrodynamic model approach
in New Journal of Physics
Dolier E
(2022)
Multi-parameter Bayesian optimisation of laser-driven ion acceleration in particle-in-cell simulations
in New Journal of Physics
Goodman J
(2022)
Optimisation of multi-petawatt laser-driven proton acceleration in the relativistic transparency regime
in New Journal of Physics
Maitrallain A
(2022)
Parametric study of high-energy ring-shaped electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator
in New Journal of Physics
Di Mitri S
(2022)
Addendum: Experimental evidence of intrabeam scattering in a free-electron laser driver (2020 New J. Phys. 22 083053)
in New Journal of Physics
Zhu X
(2023)
Magnetic pinching of relativistic particle beams: a new approach to strong-field QED physics
in New Journal of Physics
Boella E
(2022)
Interaction between electrostatic collisionless shocks generates strong magnetic fields
in New Journal of Physics
Brynes A
(2021)
Addendum: Beyond the limits of 1D coherent synchrotron radiation (2018 New J. Phys. 20 073035)
in New Journal of Physics
Schöbel S
(2022)
Effect of driver charge on wakefield characteristics in a plasma accelerator probed by femtosecond shadowgraphy
in New Journal of Physics
Liu Z
(2023)
Parametric instabilities and hot electron generation in the interactions of broadband lasers with inhomogeneous plasmas
in Nuclear Fusion
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
Alekou A
(2023)
Long term stability studies in the presence of crab cavities and high order multipoles in the CERN super proton synchrotron and high luminosity large hadron collider
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Gao Y
(2022)
Effect of the film thickness on pumping properties of Ti-Zr-V coating
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Martel I
(2023)
An innovative Superconducting Recoil Separator for HIE-ISOLDE
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms
Zhu X
(2023)
Efficient generation of collimated multi-GeV gamma-rays along solid surfaces
in Optica
Li Q
(2022)
Near infrared performance of a pile-of-plates polariser based on poly-crystalline Zinc Selenide
in Optical Materials
Zhou T
(2022)
Experimental and numerical modelling of picosecond laser ablation of thin aluminium Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) films
in Optics & Laser Technology
Siaber SS
(2024)
Corrugated waveguide with matched phase and group velocities: an extended regime of wave-beam interaction.
in Optics express
Pongchalee P
(2023)
Sub-wavelength effects in a free electron laser oscillator
in Optics Express
Feehan JS
(2022)
Computer-automated design of mode-locked fiber lasers.
in Optics express
Mosley CDW
(2023)
Large-area periodically-poled lithium niobate wafer stacks optimized for high-energy narrowband terahertz generation.
in Optics express
Morgan J
(2022)
X-ray pulse generation with ultra-fast flipping of its orbital angular momentum.
in Optics express
Brunetti E.
(2022)
A coherent undulator source based on coherent synchrotron radiation from attosecond electron bunches produced by a laser-plasma accelerator
in Optics InfoBase Conference Papers
Li Q
(2022)
Two-photon absorption and stimulated emission in poly-crystalline Zinc Selenide with femtosecond laser excitation
in Opto-Electronic Advances
Boella E
(2021)
Collisionless shock acceleration in the corona of an inertial confinement fusion pellet with possible application to ion fast ignition.
in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
Hidding B
(2023)
Progress in Hybrid Plasma Wakefield Acceleration
in Photonics
Kinsler P
(2021)
A new introduction to spatial dispersion: Reimagining the basic concepts
in Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications
Albahri T
(2021)
Magnetic-field measurement and analysis for the Muon g - 2 Experiment at Fermilab
in Physical Review A
Morgan J
(2021)
Attosecond polarization modulation of x-ray radiation in a free-electron laser
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Setiniyaz S
(2021)
Filling pattern dependence of regenerative beam breakup instability in energy recovery linacs
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Soubelet F
(2023)
Rigid waist shift: A new method for local coupling corrections in the LHC interaction regions
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Wei Y
(2022)
Design, fabrication, and low-power rf measurement of an X -band dielectric-loaded accelerating structure
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Morales Guzmán P
(2021)
Simulation and experimental study of proton bunch self-modulation in plasma with linear density gradients
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Ciccotelli A
(2023)
Energy deposition studies for the LHCb insertion region of the CERN Large Hadron Collider
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Wolski A
(2022)
Transverse phase space tomography in an accelerator test facility using image compression and machine learning
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Doss C
(2023)
Underdense plasma lens with a transverse density gradient
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
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
Obermair C
(2022)
Explainable machine learning for breakdown prediction in high gradient rf cavities
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Castro Sequeiro C
(2024)
Beam gas curtain monitor: Vacuum studies for LHC integration and operation
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Knetsch A
(2021)
Stable witness-beam formation in a beam-driven plasma cathode
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Albahri T
(2021)
Beam dynamics corrections to the Run-1 measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment at Fermilab
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Chappell J
(2021)
Experimental study of extended timescale dynamics of a plasma wakefield driven by a self-modulated proton bunch
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Ramjiawan R
(2022)
Design and operation of transfer lines for plasma wakefield accelerators using numerical optimizers
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Ben-Zvi I
(2024)
Conceptual design of a high reactive-power ferroelectric fast reactive tuner
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Mereghetti A
(2021)
Characterization of the beam scraping system of the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Calaga R
(2021)
First demonstration of the use of crab cavities on hadron beams
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Sullivan M
(2021)
X -band linac design
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Jones L
(2024)
Mean transverse energy, surface chemical and physical characterization of CERN-made Cs-Te photocathodes
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Wroe L
(2022)
Creating exact multipolar fields with azimuthally modulated rf cavities
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
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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 |