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
Morgan J
(2022)
X-ray pulse generation with ultra-fast flipping of its orbital angular momentum.
in Optics express
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
Sullivan M
(2021)
X -band linac design
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Alves-Lima D
(2022)
Visualizing water inside an operating proton exchange membrane fuel cell with video-rate terahertz imaging
in Fuel Cells
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))
Spencer K
(2022)
Variable and fixed costs in NHS radiotherapy; consequences for increasing hypo fractionation.
in Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Traczykowski P
(2023)
Up-sampling of electron beam simulation particles with addition of shot-noise
in Computer Physics Communications
Köhne S
(2023)
Unsupervised classification of fully kinetic simulations of plasmoid instability using self-organizing maps (SOMs)
in Journal of Plasma Physics
Ghaith A
(2021)
Undulator design for a laser-plasma-based free-electron-laser
in Physics Reports
Doss C
(2023)
Underdense plasma lens with a transverse density gradient
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Pongchalee P
(2024)
Unaveraged simulations of a cavity based free electron laser
in Results in Physics
Li G
(2022)
Ultrafast kinetics of the antiferromagnetic-ferromagnetic phase transition in FeRh.
in Nature communications
Liu W
(2022)
Trapping and acceleration of spin-polarized positrons from ? photon splitting in wakefields
in Physical Review Research
Wolski A
(2022)
Transverse phase space tomography in an accelerator test facility using image compression and machine learning
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Li X
(2023)
Transition from backward to sideward stimulated Raman scattering with broadband lasers in plasmas
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Batsch F
(2021)
Transition between Instability and Seeded Self-Modulation of a Relativistic Particle Bunch in Plasma.
in Physical review letters
Hahn C
(2022)
Towards harmonizing clinical linear energy transfer (LET) reporting in proton radiotherapy: a European multi-centric study.
in Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden)
Accettura C
(2023)
Towards a muon collider
in The European Physical Journal C
May A
(2021)
Towards a cryogen-free practical gradient cw SRF accelerator
in Superconductor Science and Technology
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
Gratus J
(2023)
The tensorial representation of the distributional stress-energy quadrupole and its dynamics
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Heaven CJ
(2022)
The suitability of micronuclei as markers of relative biological effect.
in Mutagenesis
Jones LB
(2022)
The measurement of photocathode transverse energy distribution curves (TEDCs) using the transverse energy spread spectrometer (TESS) experimental system.
in The Review of scientific instruments
Agostini P
(2021)
The Large Hadron-Electron Collider at the HL-LHC
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Feng J
(2023)
The Forward Physics Facility at the High-Luminosity LHC
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
Feng, J.L.
(2022)
The Forward Physics Facility at the High-Luminosity LHC
in arXiv
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
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
Gschwendtner E
(2022)
The AWAKE Run 2 Programme and Beyond
in Symmetry
Bontoiu C
(2023)
TeV/m catapult acceleration of electrons in graphene layers.
in Scientific reports
Baker CJ
(2021)
Sympathetic cooling of positrons to cryogenic temperatures for antihydrogen production.
in Nature communications
Baker C
(2021)
Sympathetic cooling of positrons to cryogenic temperatures for antihydrogen production
in Nature Communications
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))
Ries R
(2022)
Surface quality characterization of thin Nb films for superconducting radiofrequency cavities
in Superconductor Science and Technology
Kirby G
(2022)
Superconducting Curved Canted-Cosine-Theta (CCT) for the HIE-ISOLDE Recoil Separator Ring at CERN
in IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Pongchalee P
(2023)
Sub-wavelength effects in a free electron laser oscillator.
in Optics express
Knetsch A
(2021)
Stable witness-beam formation in a beam-driven plasma cathode
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
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
Song H
(2023)
Spiral copropagation of two relativistic intense laser beams in a plasma channel
in Physical Review E
Bull C
(2021)
Spintronic terahertz emitters: Status and prospects from a materials perspective
in APL Materials
Hewett S
(2022)
Spintronic terahertz emitters exploiting uniaxial magnetic anisotropy for field-free emission and polarization control
in Applied Physics Letters
Såmark-Roth A
(2021)
Spectroscopy along Flerovium Decay Chains: Discovery of ^{280}Ds and an Excited State in ^{282}Cn.
in Physical review letters
Wang C
(2023)
Spectral shift in terahertz emission by ultrafast laser-induced demagnetization
in Applied Physics Letters
Li B
(2024)
Spectral modulation of high-order harmonics in relativistic laser-solid interaction
in Physical Review E
Shukla N
(2022)
Slowdown of interpenetration of two counterpropagating plasma slabs due to collective effects.
in Physical review. E
Apsimon Ö
(2021)
Six-dimensional phase space preservation in a terahertz-driven multistage dielectric-lined rectangular waveguide accelerator
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams