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，帮助我们理解我们在宇宙中的位置。一个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已经一去不复返了。现在，科学中最重要的见解要求研究人员在团队中工作，在大学和实验室之间以及跨越国界进行合作，经常与专家工业伙伴携手合作。它们也需要最好、最精密的设备。科克罗夫特研究所反映了这些变化。它的目的是研究、设计和开发粒子加速器，这种机器可以用来揭示物质的本质，探测宇宙诞生的那一刻发生了什么，并开发新的材料和药物来提高我们的生活质量。这些机器是最尖端的技术，将我们的能力推向极限，以最小的尺度和光速控制和理解发生的过程。它们的范围从用于操作困难过程的非常小的仪器到用于创建和探测原子最内部工作的大型粒子源。全球经济只能负担得起后一种机器中的几台，因此它们需要由世界上最好的科学家和工程师组成的多国团队进行合作。科克罗夫特研究所是学术界、国家实验室、工业和地方经济之间的合作机构，汇集了最优秀的加速器科学家、工程师、教育工作者和实业家，共同构思、设计、建造和使用各种规模的创新发现仪器，并领导英国参与旗舰国际实验。它通过下一代的教育培养新兴思想的好奇心，并与工业合作伙伴合作，为维持我们的社区创造财富。成立于十多年前，科克罗夫特研究所越来越多地将注意力集中在三个平行和互补的活动上：-基于传统加速技术的逐步进步对近期科学前沿设施的贡献-在粒子加速的新方法方面的开创性研究，这些方法具有产生更紧凑类型的粒子加速器的长期潜力-应用加速器应对医疗保健、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.