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
Zhu X
(2023)
Magnetic pinching of relativistic particle beams: a new approach to strong-field QED physics
in New Journal of Physics
Zhu X
(2021)
Generation of 100-MeV Attosecond Electron Bunches with Terawatt Few-Cycle Laser Pulses
in Physical Review Applied
Zhu X
(2022)
Bunched Proton Acceleration from a Laser-Irradiated Cone Target
in Physical Review Applied
Zhu X
(2022)
Electron relay acceleration in wakefields driven by a single laser interacting with multi-stage plasma channels
in Physics of Plasmas
Zhu X
(2022)
Generation of single-cycle relativistic infrared pulses at wavelengths above 20 µ m from density-tailored plasmas
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Zhu X
(2023)
Efficient generation of collimated multi-GeV gamma-rays along solid surfaces
in Optica
Zhou T
(2022)
Experimental and numerical modelling of picosecond laser ablation of thin aluminium Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) films
in Optics & Laser Technology
Zhao Y
(2022)
Mitigation of laser plasma parametric instabilities with broadband lasers
in Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics
Zhao Y
(2022)
Dense ?-ray emission in two consecutive pulses irradiating near critical density plasma
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Description | A route to high luminosity: Terahertz-frequency ultrashort bunch trains for novel accelerators |
Amount | £602,105 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/X004090/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2023 |
End | 08/2028 |
Description | AWAKE Run 2 |
Amount | £130,911 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/X005550/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2022 |
End | 03/2025 |
Description | AWAKE Run 2 phase 2 |
Amount | £156,242 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/X00614X/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2022 |
End | 10/2025 |
Description | AWAKE UK phase II |
Amount | £396,778 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/X005208/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2022 |
End | 03/2025 |
Description | Antiparticle beamline for experiments on matter antimatter symmetry |
Amount | £463,725 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/R025363/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 02/2018 |
End | 02/2024 |
Description | BioProton: Biologically relevant dose for Proton Therapy Planning |
Amount | £1,394,633 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/S024344/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2019 |
End | 03/2025 |
Description | Enhancing ERL development in the UK |
Amount | £90,486 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/X000540/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2022 |
End | 03/2026 |
Description | Enhancing ERL development in the UK |
Amount | £122,185 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/X000559/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2022 |
End | 09/2026 |
Description | EuPRAXIA Doctoral Network |
Amount | £530,503 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/X027112/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2023 |
End | 12/2026 |
Description | Exploratory study of PWFA-driven FEL at CLARA |
Amount | £597,011 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/S006214/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2019 |
End | 03/2024 |
Description | HL-LHC-UK Phase 2 |
Amount | £1,253,837 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/T001895/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2020 |
End | 03/2026 |
Description | HL-LHC-UK phase 2 |
Amount | £549,253 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/T001968/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2020 |
End | 03/2026 |
Description | HL-LHC-UK2 |
Amount | £2,095,640 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/T001844/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2020 |
End | 03/2026 |
Description | High Luminosity Upgrade of LHC UK - Phase II |
Amount | £712,007 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/T001925/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2020 |
End | 03/2026 |
Description | ITRF LhARA WP5 ULIV |
Amount | £113,035 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/X002632/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2022 |
End | 09/2024 |
Description | LLRF for high power facility researching high gradient RF Structures for linear colliders and other applications |
Amount | £84,955 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/W005743/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2022 |
End | 03/2022 |
Description | Manufacturing in the UK for High Gradient Cavities (MUHiG) |
Amount | £58,285 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/W005247/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2022 |
End | 11/2024 |
Description | NoMAD: Non-destructive Mobile Analysis and imaging Device |
Amount | £181,033 (GBP) |
Funding ID | BB/X003833/1 |
Organisation | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2023 |
End | 09/2024 |
Description | Non-invasive Gas Jet In-Vivo Profile Dosimetry for Particle Beam Therapy (JetDose) |
Amount | £269,649 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/W002159/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2022 |
End | 06/2025 |
Description | Precision experiments with Antihydrogen |
Amount | £1,519,339 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V001426/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 06/2020 |
End | 06/2024 |
Description | Production of high quality electron bunches in AWAKE Run 2 |
Amount | £513,927 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/T00195X/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2020 |
End | 03/2024 |
Description | Production of high quality electron bunches in AWAKE Run 2 2023- |
Amount | £18,627 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/X006298/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2022 |
End | 03/2025 |
Description | Quantum Gas jet Scanner (QuantumJET) |
Amount | £87,731 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/W000687/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2021 |
End | 08/2022 |
Description | Slow Neutral Antimatter Atoms in Excited States for Inertial-type Precision Measurements (SNAP) |
Amount | £869,447 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/X014851/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2023 |
End | 12/2025 |
Description | THz driven injection for high-quality high-gradient novel acceleration |
Amount | £126,659 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/T002735/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2019 |
End | 05/2021 |
Description | The Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications |
Amount | £337,964 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/X005895/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2022 |
End | 09/2024 |
Description | The Laser-hybrid Accelerator for Radiobiological Applications (ITRF) |
Amount | £113,289 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ST/X005798/1 |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2022 |
End | 09/2024 |
Description | The new intensity frontier: exploring quantum electrodynamic plasmas |
Amount | £430,374 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V049232/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2021 |
End | 10/2025 |
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 |