The Cockcroft Institute - An International Centre for Accelerator Research and Development serving aspirations of science and society

科克罗夫特研究所建议：(i)进行通用和蓝天研究与开发（R&D），在粒子、核、光子和中子科学服务的粒子加速器概念方面率先迈出大胆的下一步；（ii）在英国或国外国内外认可的大型科研设施(如欧洲核子研究中心的大型强子对撞机、TeV规模的正电子直线对撞机、中微子工厂和介子对撞机、高亮度介子工厂、核物理超导重离子直线加速器（如欧洲核子研究中心的HIE-ISOLDE）、反物质研究设施（如FAIR）上进行加速器科学与技术的项目研发；下一代光子源如NLS和下一代中子源如ESS和ISIS升级；（iii）领导和管理大型强子对撞机亮度升级、TeV电子-正电子对撞机阻尼环和正电子源、中微子工厂国际设计研究等国际项目的国家成果；FAIR项目的潜在加速系统；（iv）引领新型对撞机和加速器概念，深入探索物质的本质，如欧洲核子研究中心的大型强子-电子对撞机（LHeC）；(v)探索粒子加速梯度、最冷带电粒子束和实验室可达到的最亮粒子束的基本极限；（六）推动新一代粒子加速器在超材料、激光、等离子体和光子学方面的前沿技术；（vii）在英国发展国际公认和有竞争力的专业知识、核心能力和互补的技能基础；（八）作为国家加速器发展中心，与工业界和社会进行知识交流，处理能源（如加速器驱动的亚临界反应堆等替代能源）、环境（废物的人工嬗变）和健康（粒子束癌症治疗加速器）方面的当前问题；（九）通过孵化将学术界、国家研究设施和工业界无缝整合；(x)为英国教育和培训下一代科学家和工程师。

The Cockcroft Institute proposes to : (i) perform generic and blue-sky research and development (R&D), spearheading the next bold steps in the conception of particle accelerators in the service of particle, nuclear, photon and neutron sciences; (ii) perform project specific R&D in Accelerator Science and Technology on large scale scientific facilities in UK or abroad approved nationally and internationally such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, TeV scale Electron-Positron Linear Collider, Neutrino Factories and Muon Colliders, High Luminosity Meson Factories, Superconducting Heavy Ion Linear Accelerators for Nuclear Physics such as HIE-ISOLDE at CERN, facilities for Anti-matter research such as FAIR; next generation photon sources such as the NLS and next generation neutron sources such as the ESS and ISIS upgrades; (iii) lead and manage national deliverables to international projects such as the luminosity upgrades of the Large Hadron Collider, Damping Rings and Positron Sources for the TeV scale electron-positron collider, the International Design Study of a Neutrino factory; potential accelerator systems for the FAIR project; (iv) spearhead novel collider and accelerator concepts to probe deeper into the nature of matter such as the Large Hadron-electron Collider (LHeC) at CERN; (v) explore the fundamental limits of particle acceleration gradient, coldest charged particle beams and the brightest beams achievable in the laboratory; (vi) advance the frontier of technology in meta-materials, lasers, plasmas and photonics for the next generation of particle accelerators; (vii) develop internationally acknowledged and competitive expertise, core competencies and complementary skills base in UK; (viii) implement Knowledge Exchange with industry and society, serving as a National Accelerator Development Centre addressing current issues in Energy (alternative energy sources such as Accelerator Driven Subcritical Reactors), Environment (Artificial Transmutation of Waste) and Health (accelerators for particle beam cancer therapy); (ix) integrate seamlessly academia, national research facilities and industry via incubation; (x) educate and train the next generation of enabling scientists and engineers for UK.