Austin Hoover
I’m a physicist in the Accelerator Physics Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. I’m interested in techniques to model, measure, and control intense beams in particle accelerators. I currently focus on (i) theory and modeling of collective effects, such as halo formation and instabilities, (ii) phase space shaping and manipulation, (iii) inverse problems such as phase space tomography. I sometimes write about my work on my blog.
Previously, I completed a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Tennessee and a B.S. in physics at Wheaton College.
The best way to reach me is by email at hooveram@ornl.gov.
News
MAY 2025
My paper N-dimensional maximum-entropy tomography via particle sampling was accepted to PRAB as an Editor’s Suggestion.
Selected papers
N-dimensional maximum-entropy tomography via particle sampling
A. Hoover
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams (2025)
Four-dimensional phase space tomography from one-dimensional measurements of a hadron beam
A. Hoover
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams (2024)
High-dimensional maximum-entropy phase space tomography using normalizing flows
A. Hoover and C. Wong
Physical Review Research (2024)
The impact of high-dimensional phase space correlations on the beam dynamics in a linear accelerator
A. Hoover, K. Ruisard, A. Aleksandrov, S. Cousineau, A. Zhukov, A. Shishlo
ICFA Workshop on High-Intensity and High-Brightness Hadron Beams (2023)
Analysis of a hadron beam in five-dimensional phase space
A. Hoover, K. Ruisard, A. Aleksandrov, A. Zhukov, and S. Cousineau
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams (2023)