Austin Hoover
Staff Scientist
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
hooveram@ornl.gov
I’m a Staff Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), working in the Accelerator Physics Group at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS). Previously, I completed a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and a B.S. in physics at Wheaton College (IL).
My research focuses on the measurement, prediction, and control of intense beams in high-power accelerators. I’m specifically interested in (i) collective effects and instabilities, (ii) beam shaping, and (iii) phase space reconstruction. Here is a more detailed overview. I sometimes write about my work on my blog.
Papers
- 2026
- Demonstration of a novel phase space painting method in a coupled lattice to mitigate space charge in high-intensity hadron beams. N. Evans, A. Hoover. T. Gorlov, and V. Morozov. Phys. Rev. Letters.
- 2025
- N-dimensional maximum-entropy tomography via particle sampling. A. Hoover. Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 28, L084601.
- 2024
- Four-dimensional phase space tomography from one-dimensional measurements of a hadron beam. A. Hoover. Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 27, 122802.
- 2024
- High-dimensional maximum-entropy phase space tomography using normalizing flows. A. Hoover, and J.C. Wong. Phys. Rev. Research 6.3, 033163.
- 2023
- Analysis of a hadron beam in five-dimensional phase space. A. Hoover, K. Ruisard, A. Aleksandrov, A. Zhukov, and S. Cousineau. Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 26.6, 064202.
- 2022
- Four-dimensional emittance measurement at the Spallation Neutron Source. A. Hoover and N. Evans. Nucl. Instrum. Methods Phys. Res., Sect. A 1041, 167376
- 2021
- Computation of the matched envelope of the Danilov distribution. A. Hoover, N. Evans, and J. Holmes. Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 24.4, 044201.