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
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))
Ingram SP
(2022)
A computational approach to quantifying miscounting of radiation-induced double-strand break immunofluorescent foci.
in Communications biology
Jiang X
(2023)
Broadband electromagnetic emission via mode conversion mediated by stimulated Raman scattering in inhomogeneous plasma
in Physics of Plasmas
Jiang X
(2024)
Anomalous hot electron generation via stimulated Raman scattering in plasma with up-ramp density profiles
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Jones L
(2021)
Non-monotonic behaviour in the mean transverse energy of electrons emitted from a reflection-mode p-GaAs(Cs,O) photocathode during its QE degradation through oxygen exposure
in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
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
Jonnerby J
(2023)
Measurement of the decay of laser-driven linear plasma wakefields.
in Physical review. E
King M
(2023)
Perspectives on laser-plasma physics in the relativistic transparency regime
in The European Physical Journal A
King M
(2023)
Geometry effects on energy selective focusing of laser-driven protons with open and closed hemisphere-cone targets
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Kinsler P
(2021)
A new introduction to spatial dispersion: Reimagining the basic concepts
in Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications
Kirby G
(2022)
Superconducting Curved Canted-Cosine-Theta (CCT) for the HIE-ISOLDE Recoil Separator Ring at CERN
in IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Knetsch A
(2021)
Stable witness-beam formation in a beam-driven plasma cathode
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Kokurewicz K
(2021)
An experimental study of focused very high energy electron beams for radiotherapy
in Communications Physics
Kurz T
(2021)
Demonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams.
in Nature communications
Köhne S
(2023)
Unsupervised classification of fully kinetic simulations of plasmoid instability using self-organizing maps (SOMs)
in Journal of Plasma Physics
Li B
(2024)
Spectral modulation of high-order harmonics in relativistic laser-solid interaction
in Physical Review E
Li F
(2022)
Design of a 1-THz Fourth-Harmonic Gyrotron Driven by Axis-Encircling Electron Beam
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Li G
(2022)
Ultrafast kinetics of the antiferromagnetic-ferromagnetic phase transition in FeRh.
in Nature communications
Li Q
(2022)
Near infrared performance of a pile-of-plates polariser based on poly-crystalline Zinc Selenide
in Optical Materials
Li X
(2021)
Polarized proton acceleration in ultraintense laser interaction with near-critical-density plasmas
in Physical Review E
Li X
(2023)
Transition from backward to sideward stimulated Raman scattering with broadband lasers in plasmas
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Liang L
(2022)
Acceleration of an Electron Bunch with a Non-Gaussian Transverse Profile in Proton-Driven Plasma Wakefield
in Applied Sciences
Liang L
(2023)
Characteristics of betatron radiation in AWAKE Run 2 experiment
in Journal of Plasma Physics
Lindstrøm CA
(2021)
Energy-Spread Preservation and High Efficiency in a Plasma-Wakefield Accelerator.
in Physical review letters
Liu W
(2022)
Trapping and acceleration of spin-polarized positrons from ? photon splitting in wakefields
in Physical Review Research
Liu Z
(2023)
Parametric instabilities and hot electron generation in the interactions of broadband lasers with inhomogeneous plasmas
in Nuclear Fusion
Loisch G
(2022)
Direct measurement of photocathode time response in a high-brightness photoinjector
in Applied Physics Letters
Luo M
(2022)
On the role of bandwidth in pump and seed light waves for stimulated Raman scattering in inhomogeneous plasmas
in Physics of Plasmas
Luo M
(2022)
Frequency chirp effects on stimulated Raman scattering in inhomogeneous plasmas
in Physics of Plasmas
López R
(2022)
Mixing the Solar Wind Proton and Electron Scales. Theory and 2D-PIC Simulations of Firehose Instability
in The Astrophysical Journal
Ma H
(2021)
Mitigating parametric instabilities in plasmas by sunlight-like lasers
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Ma H
(2021)
Simulations of laser plasma instabilities using a particle-mesh method
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
MacInnes P
(2021)
Phase Locked High Power X-band Microwave Sources
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
Mackay R
(2022)
In regard to Van Marlen: FLASH radiotherapy: Considerations for multibeam and hypofractionation dose delivery.
in Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
MacKay R
(2021)
FLASH radiotherapy: Considerations for multibeam and hypofractionation dose delivery.
in Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
MacLachlan A
(2022)
Efficient, 0.35-THz Overmoded Oscillator Based on a Two-Dimensional Periodic Surface Lattice
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
Maitrallain A
(2022)
Parametric study of high-energy ring-shaped electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator
in New Journal of Physics
Manwani P
(2021)
Resonant excitation of very high gradient plasma wakefield accelerators by optical-period bunch trains
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Martin P
(2022)
Absolute calibration of Fujifilm BAS-TR image plate response to laser driven protons up to 40 MeV.
in The Review of scientific instruments
Martynenko A
(2021)
Optimization of a laser plasma-based x-ray source according to WDM absorption spectroscopy requirements
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Martynenko A
(2021)
Determining the short laser pulse contrast based on X-Ray emission spectroscopy
in High Energy Density Physics
Martín-Luna P
(2024)
Hydrodynamic Model for Particle Beam-Driven Wakefield in Carbon Nanotubes
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Martín-Luna P
(2023)
Excitation of wakefields in carbon nanotubes: a hydrodynamic model approach
in New Journal of Physics
May A
(2022)
An active convective 4 He heat switch
in Cryogenics
May A
(2021)
Towards a cryogen-free practical gradient cw SRF accelerator
in Superconductor Science and Technology
McIlvenny A
(2021)
Selective Ion Acceleration by Intense Radiation Pressure.
in Physical review letters