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
(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)
Magnetic pinching of relativistic particle beams: a new approach to strong-field QED physics
in New Journal of Physics
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
(2023)
Efficient generation of collimated multi-GeV gamma-rays along solid surfaces
in Optica
Zhu X
(2021)
Generation of 100-MeV Attosecond Electron Bunches with Terawatt Few-Cycle Laser Pulses
in Physical Review Applied
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)
Dense ?-ray emission in two consecutive pulses irradiating near critical density plasma
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Zhao Y
(2022)
Mitigation of laser plasma parametric instabilities with broadband lasers
in Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics
Zhao J
(2022)
All-optical quasi-monoenergetic GeV positron bunch generation by twisted laser fields
in Communications Physics
Zhao H
(2022)
Nonlocal thermal transport in magnetized plasma along different directions
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
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
Zhang L
(2024)
Feedhorn Synthesis Using a Parameterized Aperture Field Distribution
in IEEE Electron Device Letters
Zhang L
(2022)
Dispersion Curve of the Helically Corrugated Waveguide Based on Helicoidal Coordinate Transform
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Zhang L
(2022)
Beam dynamic study of a Ka-band microwave undulator and its potential drive sources.
in Scientific reports
Zhang J
(2022)
Design, Simulation, and Cold Test of a W-Band Double Nonparallel Staggered Grating Backward Wave Oscillator
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Zhang H
(2021)
Efficient bright ?-ray vortex emission from a laser-illuminated light-fan-in-channel target
in High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Zhang H
(2023)
Characterization of a supersonic molecular beam for charged particle beam profile monitor
in Vacuum
Zhang G
(2022)
Carrier-Envelope-Phase-Controlled Acceleration of Multicolored Attosecond Electron Bunches in a Millijoule-Laser-Driven Wakefield
in Physical Review Applied
Yue D
(2021)
Dynamics of moving electron vortices and magnetic ring in laser plasma interaction
in Physics of Plasmas
Yue D
(2022)
Electrostatic shock waves driven by electron vortices in laser-plasma interactions
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
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
Yap J
(2021)
Medipix3 for dosimetry and real-time beam monitoring: first tests at a 60 MeV proton therapy facility
in Journal of Instrumentation
Xia Y
(2023)
Efficient angular dispersed high-order harmonic generation by dual laser pulses interacting with a solid target
in Physics of Plasmas
Xia T
(2023)
Phase control of thermally excited spin precession in ferromagnetic thin films
in Physical Review B
Wroe L
(2022)
Creating exact multipolar fields with azimuthally modulated rf cavities
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Wolski A
(2022)
Transverse phase space tomography in an accelerator test facility using image compression and machine learning
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Wolfenden J
(2023)
Cherenkov Radiation in Optical Fibres as a Versatile Machine Protection System in Particle Accelerators.
in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Wilson T
(2023)
Self-focusing, compression and collapse of ultrashort weakly-relativistic Laguerre-Gaussian lasers in near-critical plasma
in Journal of Physics Communications
Wilson R
(2022)
Influence of spatial-intensity contrast in ultraintense laser-plasma interactions.
in Scientific reports
Whitmore L
(2021)
Focused VHEE (very high energy electron) beams and dose delivery for radiotherapy applications
in Scientific Reports
Wei Y
(2022)
Design, fabrication, and low-power rf measurement of an X -band dielectric-loaded accelerating structure
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
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
Warmenhoven JW
(2023)
Effects of Differing Underlying Assumptions in In Silico Models on Predictions of DNA Damage and Repair.
in Radiation research
Wang Y
(2024)
Fast efficient photon deceleration in plasmas by using two laser pulses at different frequencies
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Wang L
(2022)
Frequency tuning for broadband terahertz emission from two-color laser-induced air plasma
in Journal of the Optical Society of America B
Wang C
(2023)
Spectral shift in terahertz emission by ultrafast laser-induced demagnetization
in Applied Physics Letters
Walker S
(2022)
Pyg4ometry: A Python library for the creation of Monte Carlo radiation transport physical geometries
in Computer Physics Communications
Walk F
(2022)
Ion energy analysis of a bipolar HiPIMS discharge using a retarding field energy analyser
in Plasma Sources Science and Technology
Vozenin MC
(2022)
FLASH Radiotherapy & Particle Therapy conference, FRPT2021.
in Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Verscharen D
(2022)
Electron-Driven Instabilities in the Solar Wind
in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Verra L
(2022)
Controlled Growth of the Self-Modulation of a Relativistic Proton Bunch in Plasma.
in Physical review letters
Verra L
(2023)
Development of the self-modulation instability of a relativistic proton bunch in plasma
in Physics of Plasmas
Ullmann D
(2021)
All-optical density downramp injection in electron-driven plasma wakefield accelerators
in Physical Review Research
Turner DA
(2022)
No interface energy barrier and increased surface pinning in low temperature baked niobium.
in Scientific reports