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
Hermann B
(2022)
Inverse-Designed Narrowband THz Radiator for Ultrarelativistic Electrons.
in ACS photonics
Hahn C
(2022)
Towards harmonizing clinical linear energy transfer (LET) reporting in proton radiotherapy: a European multi-centric study.
in Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden)
Habib A
(2023)
Plasma Photocathodes
in Annalen der Physik
Bull C
(2021)
Spintronic terahertz emitters: Status and prospects from a materials perspective
in APL Materials
Loisch G
(2022)
Direct measurement of photocathode time response in a high-brightness photoinjector
in Applied Physics Letters
Hewett S
(2022)
Spintronic terahertz emitters exploiting uniaxial magnetic anisotropy for field-free emission and polarization control
in Applied Physics Letters
Georgiadis V
(2021)
Dispersion in dielectric-lined waveguides designed for terahertz-driven deflection of electron beams
in Applied Physics Letters
Wang C
(2023)
Spectral shift in terahertz emission by ultrafast laser-induced demagnetization
in Applied Physics Letters
Liang L
(2022)
Acceleration of an Electron Bunch with a Non-Gaussian Transverse Profile in Proton-Driven Plasma Wakefield
in Applied Sciences
Brandi F
(2021)
A Few MeV Laser-Plasma Accelerated Proton Beam in Air Collimated Using Compact Permanent Quadrupole Magnets
in Applied Sciences
Abramowicz, H.
(2021)
Conceptual design report for the LUXE experiment
in arXiv
Feng, J.L.
(2022)
The Forward Physics Facility at the High-Luminosity LHC
in arXiv
Primidis TG
(2021)
Accuracy of the independent atom approximation in digital tomosynthesis Monte Carlo simulations.
in Biomedical physics & engineering express
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
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
Smith E
(2021)
A Monte Carlo study of different LET definitions and calculation parameters for proton beam therapy
in Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express
Gratus J
(2023)
The tensorial representation of the distributional stress-energy quadrupole and its dynamics
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Heritage S
(2023)
An Update to the Malthus Model for Radiotherapy Utilisation in England.
in Clinical oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain))
Ige TA
(2021)
Surveying the Challenges to Improve Linear Accelerator-based Radiation Therapy in Africa: a Unique Collaborative Platform of All 28 African Countries Offering Such Treatment.
in Clinical oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain))
Mee T
(2021)
Variations in Demand across England for the Magnetic Resonance-Linac Technology, Simulated Utilising Local-level Demographic and Cancer Data in the Malthus Project.
in Clinical oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain))
Ingram SP
(2022)
A computational approach to quantifying miscounting of radiation-induced double-strand break immunofluorescent foci.
in Communications biology
Zhao J
(2022)
All-optical quasi-monoenergetic GeV positron bunch generation by twisted laser fields
in Communications Physics
Kokurewicz K
(2021)
An experimental study of focused very high energy electron beams for radiotherapy
in Communications Physics
Traczykowski P
(2023)
Up-sampling of electron beam simulation particles with addition of shot-noise
in Computer Physics Communications
Walker S
(2022)
Pyg4ometry: A Python library for the creation of Monte Carlo radiation transport physical geometries
in Computer Physics Communications
Appleby R
(2022)
Merlin++, a flexible and feature-rich accelerator physics and particle tracking library
in Computer Physics Communications
May A
(2022)
An active convective 4 He heat switch
in Cryogenics
Feng J
(2022)
High-Frequency Vacuum Electron Devices
in Electronics
Charles T
(2023)
Alignment & stability challenges for FCC-ee
in EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation
Saito Y
(2022)
Modelling nonlocal nonlinear spin dynamics in antiferromagnetic orthoferrites.
in Faraday discussions
Verscharen D
(2022)
Electron-Driven Instabilities in the Solar Wind
in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Alves-Lima D
(2022)
Visualizing water inside an operating proton exchange membrane fuel cell with video-rate terahertz imaging
in Fuel Cells
Martynenko A
(2021)
Determining the short laser pulse contrast based on X-Ray emission spectroscopy
in High Energy Density Physics
Zhang H
(2021)
Efficient bright ?-ray vortex emission from a laser-illuminated light-fan-in-channel target
in High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Goodman J
(2023)
Optimization and control of synchrotron emission in ultraintense laser-solid interactions using machine learning
in High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Emma C
(2021)
Free electron lasers driven by plasma accelerators: status and near-term prospects
in High Power Laser Science and Engineering
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
Zhang L
(2024)
Feedhorn Synthesis Using a Parameterized Aperture Field Distribution
in IEEE Electron Device Letters
Kirby G
(2022)
Superconducting Curved Canted-Cosine-Theta (CCT) for the HIE-ISOLDE Recoil Separator Ring at CERN
in IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
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
Cai J
(2022)
Beam Optics Study on a Two-Stage Multibeam Klystron for the Future Circular Collider
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
MacLachlan A
(2022)
Efficient, 0.35-THz Overmoded Oscillator Based on a Two-Dimensional Periodic Surface Lattice
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Macinnes P
(2022)
Numerical Analysis of High-Power X -Band Sources, at Low Magnetic Confinement, for Use in a Multisource Array
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Zhang L
(2022)
Dispersion Curve of the Helically Corrugated Waveguide Based on Helicoidal Coordinate Transform
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Nix L
(2021)
Design of a 48 GHz Gyroklystron Amplifier
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Donaldson C
(2022)
Fivefold Helically Corrugated Waveguide for High-Power W -Band Gyro-Devices and Pulse Compression
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
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
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