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
Zhu X
(2022)
Electron relay acceleration in wakefields driven by a single laser interacting with multi-stage plasma channels
in Physics of Plasmas
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
Boella E
(2022)
Interaction between electrostatic collisionless shocks generates strong magnetic fields
in New Journal of Physics
Turner DA
(2022)
No interface energy barrier and increased surface pinning in low temperature baked niobium.
in Scientific reports
López R
(2022)
Mixing the Solar Wind Proton and Electron Scales. Theory and 2D-PIC Simulations of Firehose Instability
in The Astrophysical Journal
Liu W
(2022)
Trapping and acceleration of spin-polarized positrons from ? photon splitting in wakefields
in Physical Review Research
Ries R
(2022)
Surface quality characterization of thin Nb films for superconducting radiofrequency cavities
in Superconductor Science and Technology
Saveliev Y
(2022)
Experimental study of transverse effects in planar dielectric wakefield accelerating structures with elliptical beams
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Zhang L
(2022)
Beam dynamic study of a Ka-band microwave undulator and its potential drive sources.
in Scientific reports
Macinnes P
(2022)
Numerical Analysis of High-Power X -Band Sources, at Low Magnetic Confinement, for Use in a Multisource Array
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
Biglin ER
(2022)
A preclinical radiotherapy dosimetry audit using a realistic 3D printed murine phantom.
in Scientific reports
Scherkl P
(2022)
Plasma photonic spatiotemporal synchronization of relativistic electron and laser beams
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Apsimon R
(2022)
RELIEF: Tanning of Leather with e-beam
Luo M
(2022)
Frequency chirp effects on stimulated Raman scattering in inhomogeneous plasmas
in Physics of Plasmas
Saito Y
(2022)
Modelling nonlocal nonlinear spin dynamics in antiferromagnetic orthoferrites.
in Faraday discussions
Li G
(2022)
Ultrafast kinetics of the antiferromagnetic-ferromagnetic phase transition in FeRh.
in Nature communications
Mackay R
(2022)
In regard to Van Marlen: FLASH radiotherapy: Considerations for multibeam and hypofractionation dose delivery.
in Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Liang L
(2022)
Acceleration of an Electron Bunch with a Non-Gaussian Transverse Profile in Proton-Driven Plasma Wakefield
in Applied Sciences
Walker S
(2022)
Pyg4ometry: A Python library for the creation of Monte Carlo radiation transport physical geometries
in Computer Physics Communications
May A
(2022)
An active convective 4 He heat switch
in Cryogenics
Spencer K
(2022)
Variable and fixed costs in NHS radiotherapy; consequences for increasing hypo fractionation.
in Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
Maitrallain A
(2022)
Parametric study of high-energy ring-shaped electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator
in New Journal of Physics
Hewett S
(2022)
Spintronic terahertz emitters exploiting uniaxial magnetic anisotropy for field-free emission and polarization control
in Applied Physics Letters