About Me
I’m a Staff Scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, working in the Accelerator Physics Group. Previously, I completed a Ph.D. in physics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and a B.S. in physics at Wheaton College (IL).
Research Interests
I’m interested in techniques to model, measure, and control intense beams in high-power particle accelerators. I currently focus on (i) collective effects such as halo formation, (ii) phase space shaping, and (iii) inverse problems such as phase space tomography. Here is a more detailed overview. I sometimes write about my work on my blog.
Selected Papers
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 (Forthcoming).
N-dimensional maximum-entropy tomography via particle sampling. A. Hoover. Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams 28, L084601 (2025).
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 (2024).
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 (2023).