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
Wang Y
(2024)
Fast efficient photon deceleration in plasmas by using two laser pulses at different frequencies
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Martynenko A
(2021)
Optimization of a laser plasma-based x-ray source according to WDM absorption spectroscopy requirements
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Ma H
(2021)
Mitigating parametric instabilities in plasmas by sunlight-like lasers
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Li X
(2023)
Transition from backward to sideward stimulated Raman scattering with broadband lasers in plasmas
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
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
Heaven CJ
(2022)
The suitability of micronuclei as markers of relative biological effect.
in Mutagenesis
Anderson E
(2023)
Observation of the effect of gravity on the motion of antimatter
in Nature
Baker CJ
(2021)
Laser cooling of antihydrogen atoms.
in Nature
Baker C
(2021)
Laser cooling of antihydrogen atoms
in Nature
Baker C
(2021)
Sympathetic cooling of positrons to cryogenic temperatures for antihydrogen production
in Nature Communications
Kurz T
(2021)
Demonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams.
in Nature communications
Habib AF
(2023)
Attosecond-Angstrom free-electron-laser towards the cold beam limit.
in Nature communications
Baker CJ
(2021)
Sympathetic cooling of positrons to cryogenic temperatures for antihydrogen production.
in Nature communications
Li G
(2022)
Ultrafast kinetics of the antiferromagnetic-ferromagnetic phase transition in FeRh.
in Nature communications
Zhu X
(2023)
Magnetic pinching of relativistic particle beams: a new approach to strong-field QED physics
in New Journal of Physics
Di Mitri S
(2022)
Addendum: Experimental evidence of intrabeam scattering in a free-electron laser driver (2020 New J. Phys. 22 083053)
in New Journal of Physics
Maitrallain A
(2022)
Parametric study of high-energy ring-shaped electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator
in New Journal of Physics
Dolier E
(2022)
Multi-parameter Bayesian optimisation of laser-driven ion acceleration in particle-in-cell simulations
in New Journal of Physics
Brynes A
(2021)
Addendum: Beyond the limits of 1D coherent synchrotron radiation (2018 New J. Phys. 20 073035)
in New Journal of Physics
Goodman J
(2022)
Optimisation of multi-petawatt laser-driven proton acceleration in the relativistic transparency regime
in New Journal of Physics
Schöbel S
(2022)
Effect of driver charge on wakefield characteristics in a plasma accelerator probed by femtosecond shadowgraphy
in New Journal of Physics
Boella E
(2022)
Interaction between electrostatic collisionless shocks generates strong magnetic fields
in New Journal of Physics
Martín-Luna P
(2023)
Excitation of wakefields in carbon nanotubes: a hydrodynamic model approach
in New Journal of Physics
Liu Z
(2023)
Parametric instabilities and hot electron generation in the interactions of broadband lasers with inhomogeneous plasmas
in Nuclear Fusion
Gao Y
(2022)
Effect of the film thickness on pumping properties of Ti-Zr-V coating
in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment