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
Abi B
(2021)
Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.46 ppm.
in Physical review letters
Adam J
(2022)
ATHENA detector proposal - a totally hermetic electron nucleus apparatus proposed for IP6 at the Electron-Ion Collider
in Journal of Instrumentation
Agostini P
(2021)
The Large Hadron-Electron Collider at the HL-LHC
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Albahri T
(2021)
Measurement of the anomalous precession frequency of the muon in the Fermilab Muon g - 2 Experiment
in Physical Review D
Albahri T
(2021)
Magnetic-field measurement and analysis for the Muon g - 2 Experiment at Fermilab
in Physical Review A
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
Aliasghari S
(2021)
X-ray computed tomographic and focused ion beam/electron microscopic investigation of coating defects in niobium-coated copper superconducting radio-frequency cavities
in Materials Chemistry and Physics
Allegre O
(2022)
Proceedings of the 38th International MATADOR Conference
Alves-Lima D
(2022)
Visualizing water inside an operating proton exchange membrane fuel cell with video-rate terahertz imaging
in Fuel Cells
Appleby R
(2022)
Merlin++, a flexible and feature-rich accelerator physics and particle tracking library
in Computer Physics Communications
Armstrong CD
(2021)
Deconvolution of multi-Boltzmann x-ray distribution from linear absorption spectrometer via analytical parameter reduction.
in The Review of scientific instruments
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
Bacon E
(2022)
High order modes of intense second harmonic light produced from a plasma aperture
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Baker CJ
(2021)
Sympathetic cooling of positrons to cryogenic temperatures for antihydrogen production.
in Nature communications
Baker CJ
(2021)
Laser cooling of antihydrogen atoms.
in Nature
Batsch F
(2021)
Transition between Instability and Seeded Self-Modulation of a Relativistic Particle Bunch in Plasma.
in Physical review letters
Benjamin C
(2022)
Enhanced performance of an Ag(100) photocathode by an ultra-thin MgO film
in Journal of Applied Physics
Bertsche W
(2022)
A Low Energy H - Beamline for the ALPHA Antihydrogen Experiment
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Biglin ER
(2022)
A preclinical radiotherapy dosimetry audit using a realistic 3D printed murine phantom.
in Scientific reports
Boella E
(2022)
Interaction between electrostatic collisionless shocks generates strong magnetic fields
in New Journal of Physics
Bogomilov M
(2022)
Multiple Coulomb scattering of muons in lithium hydride
in Physical Review D
Brandi F
(2021)
A Few MeV Laser-Plasma Accelerated Proton Beam in Air Collimated Using Compact Permanent Quadrupole Magnets
in Applied Sciences
Browning N
(2022)
The Design and Operation of a New Relativistic Ultrafast Electron Diffraction and Imaging (RUEDI) National Facility in the UK
in Microscopy and Microanalysis
Brynes A
(2021)
Addendum: Beyond the limits of 1D coherent synchrotron radiation (2018 New J. Phys. 20 073035)
in New Journal of Physics
Bull C
(2021)
Spintronic terahertz emitters: Status and prospects from a materials perspective
in APL Materials
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
Cai J
(2022)
Beam Optics Study on a Two-Stage Multibeam Klystron for the Future Circular Collider
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Calaga R
(2021)
First demonstration of the use of crab cavities on hadron beams
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Castilla A
(2022)
Ka-band linearizer structure studies for a compact light source
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
Chaudhary P
(2022)
Development of a portable hypoxia chamber for ultra-high dose rate laser-driven proton radiobiology applications
in Radiation Oncology
Couperus Cabadag J
(2021)
Gas-dynamic density downramp injection in a beam-driven plasma wakefield accelerator
in Physical Review Research
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
Dolier E
(2022)
Multi-parameter Bayesian optimisation of laser-driven ion acceleration in particle-in-cell simulations
in New Journal of Physics
Donaldson C
(2022)
Fivefold Helically Corrugated Waveguide for High-Power W -Band Gyro-Devices and Pulse Compression
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Doria D
(2022)
Calibration of BAS-TR image plate response to GeV gold ions.
in The Review of scientific instruments
Emma C
(2021)
Free electron lasers driven by plasma accelerators: status and near-term prospects
in High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Fang Z
(2022)
Pulse Burst Generation and Diffraction with Spatial Light Modulators for Dynamic Ultrafast Laser Materials Processing.
in Materials (Basel, Switzerland)
Feehan JS
(2022)
Computer-automated design of mode-locked fiber lasers.
in Optics express
Feng J
(2022)
High-Frequency Vacuum Electron Devices
in Electronics
Finlay O
(2021)
Characterisation of a laser plasma betatron source for high resolution x-ray imaging
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Foerster F
(2022)
Stable and High-Quality Electron Beams from Staged Laser and Plasma Wakefield Accelerators
in Physical Review X
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
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
Ghaith A
(2021)
Undulator design for a laser-plasma-based free-electron-laser
in Physics Reports
Gizzi LA
(2021)
Enhanced laser-driven proton acceleration via improved fast electron heating in a controlled pre-plasma.
in Scientific reports
Goodman J
(2022)
Optimisation of multi-petawatt laser-driven proton acceleration in the relativistic transparency regime
in New Journal of Physics
Gratus J
(2023)
The tensorial representation of the distributional stress-energy quadrupole and its dynamics
in Classical and Quantum Gravity