Cockcroft Institute

科克罗夫特研究所

• 批准号: ST/P002056/1
• 负责人: Peter Ratoff
• 金额: $ 1133.22万
• 依托单位: Lancaster University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2017 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST%2FP002056%2F1
• 关键词: Cockcroft; Institute; Cockcroft; Institute

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.

科学已经为人类的进步支撑了几个世纪。它改善了我们的生活质量，并帮助我们了解了我们在宇宙中的地位。在实验室中独自工作的研究人员可以实现最小设备的研究人员可以实现重要的突破的日子。现在，科学需求中最重要的见解是研究人员在团队中工作，大学与实验室之间以及在国家边界之间的合作，通常与专家工业合作伙伴携手合作。他们还需要最好，最复杂的设备。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，可用于揭示物质本质的机器，以探测宇宙诞生的瞬间发生的事情，并开发新材料和药物以改善我们的生活质量。这些机器正处于技术的前沿，从而限制了我们控制和理解在最小尺度和光速下发生的过程的能力。它们的范围从构建的非常小的乐器来操纵艰难的过程到大量粒子来创建和探测原子的最内在起作用。 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实验。它通过对未来一代的教育进行教育，并与工业伙伴互动，为维持我们维持的社区带来财富。十多年前，Cockcroft Institute越来越多地将其注意力集中在三个平行和互补活动上： - 基于对未来的科学进步的越来越多的界限，基于常规的进步方法，越来越多的贡献是在常规方面的方法上，因此，培养出了新兴思维的好奇心。长期产生更紧凑类型的粒子加速器类型的长期潜力 - 加速器的应用来应对医疗保健，安全，能源，制造和环境中的全球挑战。