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
Mee T
(2023)
The use of radiotherapy, surgery and chemotherapy in the curative treatment of cancer: results from the FORTY (Favourable Outcomes from RadioTherapY) project.
in The British journal of radiology
Mee T
(2021)
Variations in Demand across England for the Magnetic Resonance-Linac Technology, Simulated Utilising Local-level Demographic and Cancer Data in the Malthus Project.
in Clinical oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain))
Mereghetti A
(2021)
Characterization of the beam scraping system of the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Mewes S
(2023)
Demonstration of tunability of HOFI waveguides via start-to-end simulations
in Physical Review Research
Micera A
(2021)
On the Role of Solar Wind Expansion as a Source of Whistler Waves: Scattering of Suprathermal Electrons and Heat Flux Regulation in the Inner Heliosphere
in The Astrophysical Journal
Mirarchi D
(2021)
Nonlinear dynamics of proton beams with hollow electron lens in the CERN high-luminosity LHC
in The European Physical Journal Plus
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
Morgan J
(2021)
Attosecond polarization modulation of x-ray radiation in a free-electron laser
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Morgan J
(2022)
X-ray pulse generation with ultra-fast flipping of its orbital angular momentum.
in Optics express
Mosley C
(2023)
Large-area periodically-poled lithium niobate wafer stacks optimized for high-energy narrowband terahertz generation
in Optics Express
Nechaeva T
(2024)
Hosing of a Long Relativistic Particle Bunch in Plasma.
in Physical review letters
Nix L
(2021)
Design of a 48 GHz Gyroklystron Amplifier
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Noakes T
(2022)
Oxygen plasma cleaning of copper for photocathode applications: A MEIS and XPS study
in Vacuum
Obermair C
(2022)
Explainable machine learning for breakdown prediction in high gradient rf cavities
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Peakman A
(2021)
Core design and fuel behaviour of a small modular pressurised water reactor using (Th,U)O 2 fuel for commercial marine propulsion
in Progress in Nuclear Energy
Perosa G
(2023)
Femtosecond Polarization Shaping of Free-Electron Laser Pulses.
in Physical review letters
Pongchalee P
(2024)
Unaveraged simulations of a cavity based free electron laser
in Results in Physics
Pongchalee P
(2023)
Sub-wavelength effects in a free electron laser oscillator.
in Optics express
Pouwels KB
(2021)
Community prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in England from April to November, 2020: results from the ONS Coronavirus Infection Survey.
in The Lancet. Public health
Primidis TG
(2021)
Accuracy of the independent atom approximation in digital tomosynthesis Monte Carlo simulations.
in Biomedical physics & engineering express
Primidis TG
(2021)
3D chest tomosynthesis using a stationary flat panel source array and a stationary detector: a Monte Carlo proof of concept.
in Biomedical physics & engineering express
Pérez Segurana G
(2022)
Construction of self-consistent longitudinal matches in multipass energy recovery linacs
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
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
Ries R
(2022)
Surface quality characterization of thin Nb films for superconducting radiofrequency cavities
in Superconductor Science and Technology
Ross A
(2023)
Resonant excitation of plasma waves in a plasma channel
Rothwell B
(2021)
Oxygen Depletion in Proton Spot Scanning: A Tool for Exploring the Conditions Needed for FLASH
in Radiation
Rothwell BC
(2021)
Determining the parameter space for effective oxygen depletion for FLASH radiation therapy.
in Physics in medicine and biology
Saberi H
(2023)
Radiation reaction and its impact on plasma-based energy-frontier colliders
in Physics of Plasmas
Saini C
(2022)
Defect engineered blue photoluminescence in ZnO:Al/TiO2 heterostructures
in Journal of Applied Physics
Saito Y
(2022)
Modelling nonlocal nonlinear spin dynamics in antiferromagnetic orthoferrites.
in Faraday discussions
Saveliev Y
(2022)
Experimental study of transverse effects in planar dielectric wakefield accelerating structures with elliptical 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
Schöbel S
(2022)
Effect of driver charge on wakefield characteristics in a plasma accelerator probed by femtosecond shadowgraphy
in New Journal of Physics
Setiniyaz S
(2021)
Filling pattern dependence of regenerative beam breakup instability in energy recovery linacs
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Setiniyaz S
(2021)
Pushing the capture limit of thermionic gun linacs
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Shukla N
(2022)
Slowdown of interpenetration of two counterpropagating plasma slabs due to collective effects.
in Physical review. E
Singh S
(2021)
Bremsstrahlung emission and plasma characterization driven by moderately relativistic laser-plasma interactions
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Small KL
(2021)
Evaluating very high energy electron RBE from nanodosimetric pBR322 plasmid DNA damage.
in Scientific reports
Smith E
(2021)
A Monte Carlo study of different LET definitions and calculation parameters for proton beam therapy
in Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express
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
Song H
(2023)
Optimization of target compression for high-gain fast ignition via machine learning
in Physics of Plasmas