Cockcroft Institute

几个世纪以来，科学一直支撑着人类的进步。它提高了我们的生活质量，帮助我们了解我们在宇宙中的位置。研究人员在实验室里用最少的设备独自工作就能取得重大突破的日子早已一去不复返了。现在，科学领域最重要的见解要求研究人员以团队的形式工作，在大学和实验室之间进行合作，跨越国界，通常与专业的工业合作伙伴携手合作。他们还需要最好和最先进的设备。它的目的是研究，设计和开发粒子加速器，可以用来揭示物质的本质，探测宇宙诞生的瞬间发生了什么，并开发新材料和药物来改善我们的生活质量。这些机器处于技术的前沿，将我们控制和理解以最小尺度和光速发生的过程的能力推向极限。它们的范围从用于操纵困难过程的非常小的仪器到用于创建和探测原子内部工作的大型粒子源。全球经济只能负担得起后者中的几台，因此它们需要世界上最好的科学家和工程师组成的多国团队之间的合作。科克罗夫特研究所--学术界、国家实验室、工业界和地方经济之间的合作--汇集了最好的加速器科学家、工程师、教育家和实业家，构思、设计、在所有规模上构建和使用创新的发现工具，并领导英国参与旗舰国际实验。Cockcroft Institute成立于十多年前，致力于通过教育培养下一代的好奇心，并与工业合作伙伴合作，为我们赖以生存的社区创造财富。Cockcroft Institute越来越多地关注三个平行和互补的活动：- 在常规加速技术逐步取得进展的基础上，对近期科学前沿设施的贡献-地面-在粒子加速的新方法方面的突破性研究，这些方法具有产生更紧凑类型的粒子加速器的长期潜力-加速器在解决医疗保健，安全，能源，制造业和环境。

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 medicines 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 very small instruments built to manipulate a difficult process to large sources 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 cultures the curiosity of emerging minds via education of the future generation and engages with industrial partners to generate wealth for the community that sustains us.Established more than a decade 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.