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
Baker C
(2021)
Sympathetic cooling of positrons to cryogenic temperatures for antihydrogen production
in Nature Communications
Baker C
(2023)
Design and performance of a novel low energy multispecies beamline for an antihydrogen experiment
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Baker C
(2021)
Laser cooling of antihydrogen atoms
in Nature
Baker CJ
(2021)
Laser cooling of antihydrogen atoms.
in Nature
Baker CJ
(2021)
Sympathetic cooling of positrons to cryogenic temperatures for antihydrogen production.
in Nature communications
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
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
(2020)
Collisionless shock acceleration in the corona of an inertial confinement fusion pellet with possible application to ion fast ignition
in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
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
Bonatto A
(2023)
Exploring ultra-high-intensity wakefields in carbon nanotube arrays: An effective plasma-density approach
in Physics of Plasmas
Bonatto A
(2021)
An Active Plasma Beam Dump for EuPRAXIA Beams
in Instruments
Bonatto A
(2023)
Erratum: "Exploring ultra-high-intensity wakefields in carbon nanotube arrays: An effective plasma-density approach" [Phys. Plasmas 30, 033105 (2023)]
in Physics of Plasmas
Bontoiu C
(2023)
TeV/m catapult acceleration of electrons in graphene layers.
in Scientific reports
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 N
(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
Cai J
(2021)
Numerical Analysis of Resonant Multipolar Instabilities in High Power Klystrons
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices