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
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
Mirarchi D
(2021)
Nonlinear dynamics of proton beams with hollow electron lens in the CERN high-luminosity LHC
in The European Physical Journal Plus
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
Mewes S
(2023)
Demonstration of tunability of HOFI waveguides via start-to-end simulations
in Physical Review Research
Mereghetti A
(2021)
Characterization of the beam scraping system of the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
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))
McIlvenny A
(2021)
Selective Ion Acceleration by Intense Radiation Pressure.
in Physical review letters
May A
(2022)
An active convective 4 He heat switch
in Cryogenics
May A
(2021)
Towards a cryogen-free practical gradient cw SRF accelerator
in Superconductor Science and Technology
Martín-Luna P
(2024)
Hydrodynamic Model for Particle Beam-Driven Wakefield in Carbon Nanotubes
in Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Martín-Luna P
(2023)
Excitation of wakefields in carbon nanotubes: a hydrodynamic model approach
in New Journal of Physics
Martynenko A
(2021)
Optimization of a laser plasma-based x-ray source according to WDM absorption spectroscopy requirements
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Martynenko A
(2021)
Determining the short laser pulse contrast based on X-Ray emission spectroscopy
in High Energy Density Physics
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
Manwani P
(2021)
Resonant excitation of very high gradient plasma wakefield accelerators by optical-period bunch trains
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Maitrallain A
(2022)
Parametric study of high-energy ring-shaped electron beams from a laser wakefield accelerator
in New Journal of Physics
MacLachlan A
(2022)
Efficient, 0.35-THz Overmoded Oscillator Based on a Two-Dimensional Periodic Surface Lattice
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
MacLachlan A
(2023)
The Effects of Electron Cyclotron Absorption in Powerful Narrow-Band Sub-THz Oscillators Exploiting Volume and Surface Modes
in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
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
MacKay R
(2021)
FLASH radiotherapy: Considerations for multibeam and hypofractionation dose delivery.
in Radiotherapy and oncology : journal of the European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology
MacInnes P
(2021)
Phase Locked High Power X-band Microwave Sources
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
Ma H
(2021)
Mitigating parametric instabilities in plasmas by sunlight-like lasers
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Ma H
(2021)
Simulations of laser plasma instabilities using a particle-mesh method
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion