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
Song H
(2024)
From linear to nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in laser-solid interactions
in Physical Review E
Pongchalee P
(2024)
Unaveraged simulations of a cavity based free electron laser
in Results in Physics
Zhang L
(2024)
Feedhorn Synthesis Using a Parameterized Aperture Field Distribution
in IEEE Electron Device Letters
Accettura C
(2024)
Erratum: Towards a muon collider
in The European Physical Journal C
Wang Y
(2024)
Fast efficient photon deceleration in plasmas by using two laser pulses at different frequencies
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Fuchs M
(2024)
Plasma-based particle sources
in Journal of Instrumentation
Jiang X
(2024)
Anomalous hot electron generation via stimulated Raman scattering in plasma with up-ramp density profiles
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Geng P
(2024)
Efficient muon acceleration in laser wakefields driven by single or combined laser pulses
in Physics of Plasmas
An X
(2024)
On the spin-quantization-axis selection for the spin polarization modeling during laser-electron collision
in Physics of Plasmas
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
Li B
(2024)
Spectral modulation of high-order harmonics in relativistic laser-solid interaction
in Physical Review E
Nechaeva T
(2024)
Hosing of a Long Relativistic Particle Bunch in Plasma.
in Physical review letters
MartÃn-Luna P
(2024)
Hydrodynamic Model for Particle Beam-Driven Wakefield in Carbon Nanotubes
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Hidding B
(2023)
Progress in Hybrid Plasma Wakefield Acceleration
in Photonics
Jiang X
(2023)
Broadband electromagnetic emission via mode conversion mediated by stimulated Raman scattering in inhomogeneous plasma
in Physics of Plasmas
Liu Z
(2023)
Parametric instabilities and hot electron generation in the interactions of broadband lasers with inhomogeneous plasmas
in Nuclear Fusion
Xia Y
(2023)
Efficient angular dispersed high-order harmonic generation by dual laser pulses interacting with a solid target
in Physics of Plasmas
Bonatto A
(2023)
Exploring ultra-high-intensity wakefields in carbon nanotube arrays: An effective plasma-density approach
in Physics of Plasmas
Soubelet F
(2023)
Rigid waist shift: A new method for local coupling corrections in the LHC interaction regions
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Feng J
(2023)
The Forward Physics Facility at the High-Luminosity LHC
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Goodman J
(2023)
Optimization and control of synchrotron emission in ultraintense laser-solid interactions using machine learning
in High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Bontoiu C
(2023)
TeV/m catapult acceleration of electrons in graphene layers.
in Scientific reports
Accettura C
(2023)
Towards a muon collider
in The European Physical Journal C
Song H
(2023)
Spiral copropagation of two relativistic intense laser beams in a plasma channel
in Physical Review E
Mosley C
(2023)
Large-area periodically-poled lithium niobate wafer stacks optimized for high-energy narrowband terahertz generation
in Optics Express
Song H
(2023)
Optimization of target compression for high-gain fast ignition via machine learning
in Physics of Plasmas
Wilson T
(2023)
Self-focusing, compression and collapse of ultrashort weakly-relativistic Laguerre-Gaussian lasers in near-critical plasma
in Journal of Physics Communications
Verra L
(2023)
Development of the self-modulation instability of a relativistic proton bunch in plasma
in Physics of Plasmas
Aylward JD
(2023)
Characterisation of the UK high energy proton research beamline for high and ultra-high dose rate (FLASH) irradiation.
in Biomedical physics & engineering express
Baker C
(2023)
Design and performance of a novel low energy multispecies beamline for an antihydrogen experiment
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Habib AF
(2023)
Attosecond-Angstrom free-electron-laser towards the cold beam limit.
in Nature communications
Traczykowski P
(2023)
Up-sampling of electron beam simulation particles with addition of shot-noise
in Computer Physics Communications
Zhu X
(2023)
Magnetic pinching of relativistic particle beams: a new approach to strong-field QED physics
in New Journal of Physics
Jonnerby J
(2023)
Measurement of the decay of laser-driven linear plasma wakefields.
in Physical review. E
Warwick A
(2023)
Moment tracking and their coordinate transformations for macroparticles with an application to plasmas around black holes
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Xia T
(2023)
Phase control of thermally excited spin precession in ferromagnetic thin films
in Physical Review B
Ciccotelli A
(2023)
Energy deposition studies for the LHCb insertion region of the CERN Large Hadron Collider
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Ross A
(2023)
Resonant excitation of plasma waves in a plasma channel
Heritage S
(2023)
An Update to the Malthus Model for Radiotherapy Utilisation in England.
in Clinical oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain))
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
Zhang H
(2023)
Characterization of a supersonic molecular beam for charged particle beam profile monitor
in Vacuum
Mee T
(2023)
The use of radiotherapy, surgery and chemotherapy in the curative treatment of cancer: results from the FORTY (Favourable Outcomes from RadioTherapY) project.
in The British journal of radiology
Wang C
(2023)
Spectral shift in terahertz emission by ultrafast laser-induced demagnetization
in Applied Physics Letters
MacLachlan A
(2023)
The Effects of Electron Cyclotron Absorption in Powerful Narrow-Band Sub-THz Oscillators Exploiting Volume and Surface Modes
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Anderson E
(2023)
Observation of the effect of gravity on the motion of antimatter
in Nature
Doss C
(2023)
Underdense plasma lens with a transverse density gradient
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Gratus J
(2023)
The tensorial representation of the distributional stress-energy quadrupole and its dynamics
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Pongchalee P
(2023)
Sub-wavelength effects in a free electron laser oscillator.
in Optics express
Habib A
(2023)
Plasma Photocathodes
in Annalen der Physik