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
Martynenko A
(2021)
Determining the short laser pulse contrast based on X-Ray emission spectroscopy
in High Energy Density Physics
Chaudhary P
(2022)
Development of a portable hypoxia chamber for ultra-high dose rate laser-driven proton radiobiology applications.
in Radiation oncology (London, England)
Verra L
(2023)
Development of the self-modulation instability of a relativistic proton bunch in plasma
in Physics of Plasmas
Loisch G
(2022)
Direct measurement of photocathode time response in a high-brightness photoinjector
in Applied Physics Letters
Zhang L
(2022)
Dispersion Curve of the Helically Corrugated Waveguide Based on Helicoidal Coordinate Transform
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Georgiadis V
(2021)
Dispersion in dielectric-lined waveguides designed for terahertz-driven deflection of electron beams
in Applied Physics Letters
Yue D
(2021)
Dynamics of moving electron vortices and magnetic ring in laser plasma interaction
in Physics of Plasmas
Schöbel S
(2022)
Effect of driver charge on wakefield characteristics in a plasma accelerator probed by femtosecond shadowgraphy
in New Journal of Physics
Gao Y
(2022)
Effect of the film thickness on electron stimulated desorption yield from Ti-Zr-V coating
in Journal of Instrumentation
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
Warmenhoven JW
(2023)
Effects of Differing Underlying Assumptions in In Silico Models on Predictions of DNA Damage and Repair.
in Radiation research
Xia Y
(2023)
Efficient angular dispersed high-order harmonic generation by dual laser pulses interacting with a solid target
in Physics of Plasmas
Zhang H
(2021)
Efficient bright ?-ray vortex emission from a laser-illuminated light-fan-in-channel target
in High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Zhu X
(2023)
Efficient generation of collimated multi-GeV gamma-rays along solid surfaces
in Optica
Geng P
(2024)
Efficient muon acceleration in laser wakefields driven by single or combined laser pulses
in Physics of Plasmas
MacLachlan A
(2022)
Efficient, 0.35-THz Overmoded Oscillator Based on a Two-Dimensional Periodic Surface Lattice
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Zhu X
(2022)
Electron relay acceleration in wakefields driven by a single laser interacting with multi-stage plasma channels
in Physics of Plasmas
Verscharen D
(2022)
Electron-Driven Instabilities in the Solar Wind
in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Yue D
(2022)
Electrostatic shock waves driven by electron vortices in laser-plasma interactions
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Ciccotelli A
(2023)
Energy deposition studies for the LHCb insertion region of the CERN Large Hadron Collider
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Lindstrøm CA
(2021)
Energy-Spread Preservation and High Efficiency in a Plasma-Wakefield Accelerator.
in Physical review letters
Gizzi LA
(2021)
Enhanced laser-driven proton acceleration via improved fast electron heating in a controlled pre-plasma.
in Scientific reports
Benjamin C
(2022)
Enhanced performance of an Ag(100) photocathode by an ultra-thin MgO film
in Journal of Applied Physics
Assmann R
(2021)
Erratum to: EuPRAXIA Conceptual Design Report Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 229, 3675-4284 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2020-000127-8
in The European Physical Journal Special Topics
Bonatto A
(2023)
Erratum: "Exploring ultra-high-intensity wakefields in carbon nanotube arrays: An effective plasma-density approach" [Phys. Plasmas 30, 033105 (2023)]
in Physics of Plasmas
Accettura C
(2024)
Erratum: Towards a muon collider
in The European Physical Journal C
Burnet NG
(2022)
Estimating the percentage of patients who might benefit from proton beam therapy instead of X-ray radiotherapy.
in The British journal of radiology
Small KL
(2021)
Evaluating very high energy electron RBE from nanodosimetric pBR322 plasmid DNA damage.
in Scientific reports
MartÃn-Luna P
(2023)
Excitation of wakefields in carbon nanotubes: a hydrodynamic model approach
in New Journal of Physics
Zhou T
(2022)
Experimental and numerical modelling of picosecond laser ablation of thin aluminium Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) films
in Optics & Laser Technology
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
Saveliev Y
(2022)
Experimental study of transverse effects in planar dielectric wakefield accelerating structures with elliptical beams
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
Cai J
(2023)
Exploratory Study on High-Efficiency High-Power W-Band Klystron Based on Kladistron Technology
in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science
Bonatto A
(2023)
Exploring ultra-high-intensity wakefields in carbon nanotube arrays: An effective plasma-density approach
in Physics of Plasmas
Wang Y
(2024)
Fast efficient photon deceleration in plasmas by using two laser pulses at different frequencies
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Zhang L
(2024)
Feedhorn Synthesis Using a Parameterized Aperture Field Distribution
in IEEE Electron Device Letters
Perosa G
(2023)
Femtosecond Polarization Shaping of Free-Electron Laser Pulses
in Physical Review Letters
Verra L
(2024)
Filamentation of a relativistic proton bunch in plasma.
in Physical review. E
Setiniyaz S
(2021)
Filling pattern dependence of regenerative beam breakup instability in energy recovery linacs
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
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
Donaldson C
(2022)
Fivefold Helically Corrugated Waveguide for High-Power W -Band Gyro-Devices and Pulse Compression
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Vozenin MC
(2022)
FLASH Radiotherapy & Particle Therapy conference, FRPT2021.
in Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
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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 |