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 halo formation in high-power linear accelerators and beam shaping in circular accelerators. I’m also interested in applying ideas from probability theory and machine learning to 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.

Selected publications

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)

Computation of the matched envelope of the Danilov distribution
A. Hoover, N. Evans, and J. Holmes
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams (2021)