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
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
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
Zhang G
(2022)
Carrier-Envelope-Phase-Controlled Acceleration of Multicolored Attosecond Electron Bunches in a Millijoule-Laser-Driven Wakefield
in Physical Review Applied
Dolier E
(2022)
Multi-parameter Bayesian optimisation of laser-driven ion acceleration in particle-in-cell simulations
in New Journal of Physics
Allegre O
(2022)
Proceedings of the 38th International MATADOR Conference
Zhu X
(2022)
Bunched Proton Acceleration from a Laser-Irradiated Cone Target
in Physical Review Applied
Bertsche W
(2022)
A Low Energy H - Beamline for the ALPHA Antihydrogen Experiment
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
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
An X
(2022)
Bragg scattering induced laser deflection and electron injection in x-ray laser driven wakefield acceleration in crystals
in Physical Review Research
Saini C
(2022)
Defect engineered blue photoluminescence in ZnO:Al/TiO2 heterostructures
in Journal of Applied Physics
Schöbel S
(2022)
Effect of driver charge on wakefield characteristics in a plasma accelerator probed by femtosecond shadowgraphy
in New Journal of Physics
Chaudhary P
(2022)
Development of a portable hypoxia chamber for ultra-high dose rate laser-driven proton radiobiology applications.
in Radiation oncology (London, England)
Geng P
(2022)
Propagation of axiparabola-focused laser pulses in uniform plasmas
in Physics of Plasmas
Li Q
(2022)
Near infrared performance of a pile-of-plates polariser based on poly-crystalline Zinc Selenide
in Optical Materials
MacLachlan A
(2022)
Efficient, 0.35-THz Overmoded Oscillator Based on a Two-Dimensional Periodic Surface Lattice
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Verscharen D
(2022)
Electron-Driven Instabilities in the Solar Wind
in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Ingram SP
(2022)
A computational approach to quantifying miscounting of radiation-induced double-strand break immunofluorescent foci.
in Communications biology
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
Wei Y
(2022)
Design, fabrication, and low-power rf measurement of an X -band dielectric-loaded accelerating structure
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
Herrod A
(2022)
Optimal Configuration of Proton-Therapy Accelerators for Relative-Stopping-Power Resolution in Proton Computed Tomography
in Physical Review Applied
Gao Y
(2022)
Effect of the film thickness on electron stimulated desorption yield from Ti-Zr-V coating
in Journal of Instrumentation
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
Heaven CJ
(2022)
The suitability of micronuclei as markers of relative biological effect.
in Mutagenesis
Wroe L
(2022)
Creating exact multipolar fields with azimuthally modulated rf cavities
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Obermair C
(2022)
Explainable machine learning for breakdown prediction in high gradient rf cavities
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Wang L
(2022)
Frequency tuning for broadband terahertz emission from two-color laser-induced air plasma
in Journal of the Optical Society of America B
Hermann B
(2022)
Inverse-Designed Narrowband THz Radiator for Ultrarelativistic Electrons.
in ACS photonics
Walk F
(2022)
Ion energy analysis of a bipolar HiPIMS discharge using a retarding field energy analyser
in Plasma Sources Science and Technology
Bacon E
(2022)
High order modes of intense second harmonic light produced from a plasma aperture
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Morgan J
(2022)
X-ray pulse generation with ultra-fast flipping of its orbital angular momentum.
in Optics express
Kirby G
(2022)
Superconducting Curved Canted-Cosine-Theta (CCT) for the HIE-ISOLDE Recoil Separator Ring at CERN
in IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity
Zhao Y
(2022)
Dense ?-ray emission in two consecutive pulses irradiating near critical density plasma
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Ramoisiaux E
(2022)
Self-consistent numerical evaluation of concrete shielding activation for proton therapy systems Application to the proton therapy research centre in Charleroi, Belgium
in The European Physical Journal Plus
Goodman J
(2022)
Optimisation of multi-petawatt laser-driven proton acceleration in the relativistic transparency regime
in New Journal of Physics
Zhao H
(2022)
Nonlocal thermal transport in magnetized plasma along different directions
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Habib A
(2023)
Plasma Photocathodes
in Annalen der Physik
Bontoiu C
(2023)
TeV/m catapult acceleration of electrons in graphene layers.
in Scientific reports
Wolfenden J
(2023)
Cherenkov Radiation in Optical Fibres as a Versatile Machine Protection System in Particle Accelerators.
in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Song H
(2023)
Spiral copropagation of two relativistic intense laser beams in a plasma channel
in Physical Review E
Soubelet F
(2023)
Rigid waist shift: A new method for local coupling corrections in the LHC interaction regions
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Gratus J
(2023)
The tensorial representation of the distributional stress-energy quadrupole and its dynamics
in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Feng J
(2023)
The Forward Physics Facility at the High-Luminosity LHC
in Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
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
Charles T
(2023)
Alignment & stability challenges for FCC-ee
in EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation