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
Geng P
(2024)
Efficient muon acceleration in laser wakefields driven by single or combined laser pulses
in Physics of Plasmas
Georgiadis V
(2021)
Dispersion in dielectric-lined waveguides designed for terahertz-driven deflection of electron beams
in Applied Physics Letters
Ghaith A
(2021)
Undulator design for a laser-plasma-based free-electron-laser
in Physics Reports
Gizzi L
(2021)
Enhanced laser-driven proton acceleration via improved fast electron heating in a controlled pre-plasma
in Scientific Reports
Gnacadja E
(2022)
Optimization of proton therapy eye-treatment systems toward improved clinical performances
in Physical Review Research
Goodman J
(2023)
Optimization and control of synchrotron emission in ultraintense laser-solid interactions using machine learning
in High Power Laser Science and Engineering
Goodman J
(2022)
Optimisation of multi-petawatt laser-driven proton acceleration in the relativistic transparency regime
in New Journal of Physics
Gratus J
(2023)
The tensorial representation of the distributional stress-energy quadrupole and its dynamics
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Gschwendtner E
(2022)
The AWAKE Run 2 Programme and Beyond
in Symmetry
Habib A
(2023)
Plasma Photocathodes
in Annalen der Physik
Habib AF
(2023)
Attosecond-Angstrom free-electron-laser towards the cold beam limit.
in Nature communications
Hahn C
(2022)
Towards harmonizing clinical linear energy transfer (LET) reporting in proton radiotherapy: a European multi-centric study.
in Acta oncologica (Stockholm, Sweden)
Heaven CJ
(2022)
The suitability of micronuclei as markers of relative biological effect.
in Mutagenesis
Henthorn NT
(2023)
Proposing a Clinical Model for RBE Based on Proton Track-End Counts.
in International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics
Heritage S
(2023)
An Update to the Malthus Model for Radiotherapy Utilisation in England.
in Clinical oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain))
Hermann B
(2022)
Inverse-Designed Narrowband THz Radiator for Ultrarelativistic Electrons.
in ACS photonics
Herrod A
(2022)
Optimal Configuration of Proton-Therapy Accelerators for Relative-Stopping-Power Resolution in Proton Computed Tomography
in Physical Review Applied
Hewett S
(2022)
Spintronic terahertz emitters exploiting uniaxial magnetic anisotropy for field-free emission and polarization control
in Applied Physics Letters
Hidding B
(2023)
Progress in Hybrid Plasma Wakefield Acceleration
in Photonics
Higginson A
(2021)
Influence of target-rear-side short scale length density gradients on laser-driven proton acceleration
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Huang J
(2022)
Ion Acoustic Shock Wave Formation and Ion Acceleration in the Interactions of Pair Jets with Electron-ion Plasmas
in The Astrophysical Journal
Huang J
(2021)
Relativistic-induced opacity of electron-positron plasmas
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion