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
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
Wilson R
(2022)
Influence of spatial-intensity contrast in ultraintense laser-plasma interactions.
in Scientific reports
Higginson A
(2021)
Influence of target-rear-side short scale length density gradients on laser-driven proton acceleration
in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Apsimon R
(2021)
Initial Studies of Electron Beams as a Means of Modifying Collagen
in Physics
Boella E
(2022)
Interaction between electrostatic collisionless shocks generates strong magnetic fields
in New Journal of Physics
Hermann B
(2022)
Inverse-Designed Narrowband THz Radiator for Ultrarelativistic Electrons.
in ACS photonics
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
Walk F
(2022)
Ion energy analysis of a bipolar HiPIMS discharge using a retarding field energy analyser
in Plasma Sources Science and Technology
Castilla A
(2022)
Ka-band linearizer structure studies for a compact light source
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Mosley C
(2023)
Large-area periodically-poled lithium niobate wafer stacks optimized for high-energy narrowband terahertz generation
in Optics Express
Baker C
(2021)
Laser cooling of antihydrogen atoms
in Nature
Baker CJ
(2021)
Laser cooling of antihydrogen atoms.
in Nature
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
Zhu X
(2023)
Magnetic pinching of relativistic particle beams: a new approach to strong-field QED physics
in New Journal of Physics
Albahri T
(2021)
Magnetic-field measurement and analysis for the Muon g - 2 Experiment at Fermilab
in Physical Review A
Albahri T
(2021)
Measurement of the anomalous precession frequency of the muon in the Fermilab Muon g - 2 Experiment
in Physical Review D
Jonnerby J
(2023)
Measurement of the decay of laser-driven linear plasma wakefields.
in Physical review. E
Abi B
(2021)
Measurement of the Positive Muon Anomalous Magnetic Moment to 0.46 ppm.
in Physical review letters
Yap J
(2021)
Medipix3 for dosimetry and real-time beam monitoring: first tests at a 60 MeV proton therapy facility
in Journal of Instrumentation
Appleby R
(2022)
Merlin++, a flexible and feature-rich accelerator physics and particle tracking library
in Computer Physics Communications