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
Alekou A
(2023)
Long term stability studies in the presence of crab cavities and high order multipoles in the CERN super proton synchrotron and high luminosity large hadron collider
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
Zhu X
(2023)
Efficient generation of collimated multi-GeV gamma-rays along solid surfaces
in Optica
Li Q
(2022)
Near infrared performance of a pile-of-plates polariser based on poly-crystalline Zinc Selenide
in Optical Materials
Zhou T
(2022)
Experimental and numerical modelling of picosecond laser ablation of thin aluminium Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) films
in Optics & Laser Technology
Feehan J
(2022)
Computer-automated design of mode-locked fiber lasers
in Optics Express
Mosley C
(2023)
Large-area periodically-poled lithium niobate wafer stacks optimized for high-energy narrowband terahertz generation
in Optics Express
Pongchalee P
(2023)
Sub-wavelength effects in a free electron laser oscillator.
in Optics express
Morgan J
(2022)
X-ray pulse generation with ultra-fast flipping of its orbital angular momentum.
in Optics express
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
Hidding B
(2023)
Progress in Hybrid Plasma Wakefield Acceleration
in Photonics
Kinsler P
(2021)
A new introduction to spatial dispersion: Reimagining the basic concepts
in Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications
Albahri T
(2021)
Magnetic-field measurement and analysis for the Muon g - 2 Experiment at Fermilab
in Physical Review A
Obermair C
(2022)
Explainable machine learning for breakdown prediction in high gradient rf cavities
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Albahri T
(2021)
Beam dynamics corrections to the Run-1 measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment at Fermilab
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Soubelet F
(2023)
Rigid waist shift: A new method for local coupling corrections in the LHC interaction regions
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Ramjiawan R
(2022)
Design and operation of transfer lines for plasma wakefield accelerators using numerical optimizers
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Mereghetti A
(2021)
Characterization of the beam scraping system of the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Pérez Segurana G
(2022)
Construction of self-consistent longitudinal matches in multipass energy recovery linacs
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Setiniyaz S
(2021)
Filling pattern dependence of regenerative beam breakup instability in energy recovery linacs
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Baker C
(2023)
Design and performance of a novel low energy multispecies beamline for an antihydrogen experiment
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Morgan J
(2021)
Attosecond polarization modulation of x-ray radiation in a free-electron laser
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
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
Morales Guzmán P
(2021)
Simulation and experimental study of proton bunch self-modulation in plasma with linear density gradients
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Apsimon Ö
(2021)
Six-dimensional phase space preservation in a terahertz-driven multistage dielectric-lined rectangular waveguide accelerator
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Ciccotelli A
(2023)
Energy deposition studies for the LHCb insertion region of the CERN Large Hadron Collider
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Knetsch A
(2021)
Stable witness-beam formation in a beam-driven plasma cathode
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Saveliev Y
(2022)
Experimental study of transverse effects in planar dielectric wakefield accelerating structures with elliptical beams
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Wei Y
(2022)
Design, fabrication, and low-power rf measurement of an X -band dielectric-loaded accelerating structure
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Doss C
(2023)
Underdense plasma lens with a transverse density gradient
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Manwani P
(2021)
Resonant excitation of very high gradient plasma wakefield accelerators by optical-period bunch trains
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Setiniyaz S
(2021)
Pushing the capture limit of thermionic gun linacs
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Sullivan M
(2021)
X -band linac design
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Wroe L
(2022)
Creating exact multipolar fields with azimuthally modulated rf cavities
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Castilla A
(2022)
Ka-band linearizer structure studies for a compact light source
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Calaga R
(2021)
First demonstration of the use of crab cavities on hadron beams
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Scherkl P
(2022)
Plasma photonic spatiotemporal synchronization of relativistic electron and laser beams
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Chappell J
(2021)
Experimental study of extended timescale dynamics of a plasma wakefield driven by a self-modulated proton bunch
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Zhu X
(2022)
Bunched Proton Acceleration from a Laser-Irradiated Cone Target
in Physical Review Applied
Herrod A
(2022)
Optimal Configuration of Proton-Therapy Accelerators for Relative-Stopping-Power Resolution in Proton Computed Tomography
in Physical Review Applied
Zhang G
(2022)
Carrier-Envelope-Phase-Controlled Acceleration of Multicolored Attosecond Electron Bunches in a Millijoule-Laser-Driven Wakefield
in Physical Review Applied
Zhu X
(2021)
Generation of 100-MeV Attosecond Electron Bunches with Terawatt Few-Cycle Laser Pulses
in Physical Review Applied
Xia T
(2023)
Phase control of thermally excited spin precession in ferromagnetic thin films
in Physical Review B
Albahri T
(2021)
Measurement of the anomalous precession frequency of the muon in the Fermilab Muon g - 2 Experiment
in Physical Review D
Bogomilov M
(2022)
Multiple Coulomb scattering of muons in lithium hydride
in Physical Review D
Song H
(2024)
From linear to nonlinear Breit-Wheeler pair production in laser-solid interactions
in Physical Review E
Song H
(2023)
Spiral copropagation of two relativistic intense laser beams in a plasma channel
in Physical Review E
Li B
(2024)
Spectral modulation of high-order harmonics in relativistic laser-solid interaction
in Physical Review E
Li X
(2021)
Polarized proton acceleration in ultraintense laser interaction with near-critical-density plasmas
in Physical Review E
Verra L
(2022)
Controlled Growth of the Self-Modulation of a Relativistic Proton Bunch in Plasma.
in Physical review letters