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
Boella E
(2020)
Collisionless shock acceleration in the corona of an inertial confinement fusion pellet with possible application to ion fast ignition
in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Abramowicz, H.
(2021)
Conceptual design report for the LUXE experiment
in arXiv
Zhang H
(2021)
Efficient bright ?-ray vortex emission from a laser-illuminated light-fan-in-channel target
in High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Baker C
(2021)
Sympathetic cooling of positrons to cryogenic temperatures for antihydrogen production
in Nature Communications
Ullmann D
(2021)
All-optical density downramp injection in electron-driven plasma wakefield accelerators
in Physical Review Research
Zhang L
(2021)
Potentials of Machine Learning in Vacuum Electronic Devices Demonstrated by the Design of a Magnetron Injection Gun
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Kurz T
(2021)
Demonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams.
in Nature communications
Primidis TG
(2021)
Accuracy of the independent atom approximation in digital tomosynthesis Monte Carlo simulations.
in Biomedical physics & engineering express
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
Yap J
(2021)
Medipix3 for dosimetry and real-time beam monitoring: first tests at a 60 MeV proton therapy facility
in Journal of Instrumentation
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
Couperus Cabadag J
(2021)
Gas-dynamic density downramp injection in a beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator
in Physical Review Research
Pouwels KB
(2021)
Community prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in England from April to November, 2020: results from the ONS Coronavirus Infection Survey.
in The Lancet. Public health
Apsimon R
(2021)
Initial Studies of Electron Beams as a Means of Modifying Collagen
in Physics
Rothwell B
(2021)
Oxygen Depletion in Proton Spot Scanning: A Tool for Exploring the Conditions Needed for FLASH
in Radiation
Primidis TG
(2021)
3D chest tomosynthesis using a stationary flat panel source array and a stationary detector: a Monte Carlo proof of concept.
in Biomedical physics & engineering express
Albahri T
(2021)
Measurement of the anomalous precession frequency of the muon in the Fermilab Muon g - 2 Experiment
in Physical Review D
Mirarchi D
(2021)
Nonlinear dynamics of proton beams with hollow electron lens in the CERN high-luminosity LHC
in The European Physical Journal Plus
Mereghetti A
(2021)
Characterization of the beam scraping system of the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Armstrong CD
(2021)
Deconvolution of multi-Boltzmann x-ray distribution from linear absorption spectrometer via analytical parameter reduction.
in The Review of scientific instruments
Brandi F
(2021)
A Few MeV Laser-Plasma Accelerated Proton Beam in Air Collimated Using Compact Permanent Quadrupole Magnets
in Applied Sciences
Setiniyaz S
(2021)
Filling pattern dependence of regenerative beam breakup instability in energy recovery linacs
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Såmark-Roth A
(2021)
Spectroscopy along Flerovium Decay Chains: Discovery of ^{280}Ds and an Excited State in ^{282}Cn.
in Physical review letters
Abi B
(2021)
Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.46 ppm.
in Physical review letters
Finlay O
(2021)
Characterisation of a laser plasma betatron source for high resolution x-ray imaging
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Morgan J
(2021)
Attosecond polarization modulation of x-ray radiation in a free-electron laser
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Small KL
(2021)
Evaluating very high energy electron RBE from nanodosimetric pBR322 plasmid DNA damage.
in Scientific reports
Martynenko A
(2021)
Optimization of a laser plasma-based x-ray source according to WDM absorption spectroscopy requirements
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Georgiadis V
(2021)
Dispersion in dielectric-lined waveguides designed for terahertz-driven deflection of electron beams
in Applied Physics Letters
Galante B
(2021)
Stability and lifetime study of carbon nanotubes as cold electron field emitters for electron cooling in the CERN extra low energy antiproton ring
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Ghaith A
(2021)
Undulator design for a laser-plasma-based free-electron-laser
in Physics Reports
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
Apsimon Ö
(2021)
Six-dimensional phase space preservation in a terahertz-driven multistage dielectric-lined rectangular waveguide accelerator
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Emma C
(2021)
Free electron lasers driven by plasma accelerators: status and near-term prospects
in High Power Laser Science and Engineering
MacInnes P
(2021)
Phase Locked High Power X-band Microwave Sources
Kinsler P
(2021)
A new introduction to spatial dispersion: Reimagining the basic concepts
in Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications
McIlvenny A
(2021)
Selective Ion Acceleration by Intense Radiation Pressure.
in Physical review letters
Knetsch A
(2021)
Stable witness-beam formation in a beam-driven plasma cathode
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Singh S
(2021)
Bremsstrahlung emission and plasma characterization driven by moderately relativistic laser-plasma interactions
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Kokurewicz K
(2021)
An experimental study of focused very high energy electron beams for radiotherapy
in Communications Physics
Whitmore L
(2021)
Focused VHEE (very high energy electron) beams and dose delivery for radiotherapy applications
in Scientific Reports
Yue D
(2021)
Dynamics of moving electron vortices and magnetic ring in laser plasma interaction
in Physics of Plasmas
Jones L
(2021)
Non-monotonic behaviour in the mean transverse energy of electrons emitted from a reflection-mode p-GaAs(Cs,O) photocathode during its QE degradation through oxygen exposure
in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
Nix L
(2021)
Design of a 48 GHz Gyroklystron Amplifier
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Agostini P
(2021)
The Large Hadron-Electron Collider at the HL-LHC
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Micera A
(2021)
On the Role of Solar Wind Expansion as a Source of Whistler Waves: Scattering of Suprathermal Electrons and Heat Flux Regulation in the Inner Heliosphere
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abramowicz H
(2021)
Conceptual design report for the LUXE experiment
in The European Physical Journal Special Topics