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
Batsch F
(2021)
Transition between Instability and Seeded Self-Modulation of a Relativistic Particle Bunch in Plasma.
in Physical review letters
Baker CJ
(2021)
Laser cooling of antihydrogen atoms.
in Nature
Baker CJ
(2021)
Sympathetic cooling of positrons to cryogenic temperatures for antihydrogen production.
in Nature communications
Baker C
(2021)
Sympathetic cooling of positrons to cryogenic temperatures for antihydrogen production
in Nature Communications
Baker C
(2023)
Design and performance of a novel low energy multispecies beamline for an antihydrogen experiment
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Baker C
(2021)
Laser cooling of antihydrogen atoms
in Nature
Bacon E
(2022)
High order modes of intense second harmonic light produced from a plasma aperture
in Matter and Radiation at Extremes
Aylward JD
(2023)
Characterisation of the UK high energy proton research beamline for high and ultra-high dose rate (FLASH) irradiation.
in Biomedical physics & engineering express
Assmann R
(2021)
Erratum to: EuPRAXIA Conceptual Design Report Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 229, 3675-4284 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2020-000127-8
in The European Physical Journal Special Topics
Armstrong CD
(2021)
Deconvolution of multi-Boltzmann x-ray distribution from linear absorption spectrometer via analytical parameter reduction.
in The Review of scientific instruments
Apsimon Ö
(2021)
Six-dimensional phase space preservation in a terahertz-driven multistage dielectric-lined rectangular waveguide accelerator
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Apsimon R
(2021)
Initial Studies of Electron Beams as a Means of Modifying Collagen
in Physics
Apsimon R
(2022)
RELIEF: Tanning of Leather with e-beam
Appleby R
(2022)
Merlin++, a flexible and feature-rich accelerator physics and particle tracking library
in Computer Physics Communications
Anderson E
(2023)
Observation of the effect of gravity on the motion of antimatter
in Nature
An X
(2024)
On the spin-quantization-axis selection for the spin polarization modeling during laser-electron collision
in Physics of Plasmas
An X
(2022)
Bragg scattering induced laser deflection and electron injection in x-ray laser driven wakefield acceleration in crystals
in Physical Review Research
Alves-Lima D
(2022)
Visualizing water inside an operating proton exchange membrane fuel cell with video-rate terahertz imaging
in Fuel Cells
Allegre O
(2022)
Proceedings of the 38th International MATADOR Conference
Aliasghari S
(2021)
X-ray computed tomographic and focused ion beam/electron microscopic investigation of coating defects in niobium-coated copper superconducting radio-frequency cavities
in Materials Chemistry and 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
Albahri T
(2021)
Beam dynamics corrections to the Run-1 measurement of the muon anomalous magnetic moment at Fermilab
in Physical Review Accelerators and Beams
Albahri T
(2021)
Measurement of the anomalous precession frequency of the muon in the Fermilab Muon g - 2 Experiment
in Physical Review D
Albahri T
(2021)
Magnetic-field measurement and analysis for the Muon g - 2 Experiment at Fermilab
in Physical Review A