Publications

Preprints

  1. Demonstration of a method to construct self-consistent beam distributions through phase space painting
    N. Evans, A. Hoover. T. Gorlov, and V. Morozov
    [preprint]

Journal

  1. N-dimensional maximum-entropy tomography via particle sampling
    A. Hoover
    Physical Review Accelerators and Beams (2025)
    [published] [preprint] [data] [code]

  2. Four-dimensional phase space tomography from one-dimensional measurements of a hadron beam
    A. Hoover
    Physical Review Accelerators and Beams (2024)
    [published] [preprint] [data]

  3. High-dimensional maximum-entropy phase space tomography using normalizing flows
    A. Hoover and C. Wong
    Physical Review Research (2024)
    [published] [preprint] [data] [code]

  4. 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)
    [published] [preprint] [data] [blog]

  5. Four-dimensional emittance measurement at the Spallation Neutron Source
    A. Hoover and N. Evans
    Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A (2022)
    [published] [preprint]

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

Conference1

Invited (first author)

  1. High-dimensional maximum-entropy phase space tomography
    A. Hoover
    North American Particle Accelerator Conference (2025)

Contributed (first author)

  1. Feasibility of proton bunch compression in an operational high-power accelerator
    A. Hoover, V. Morozov, C. Piller, A. Narayan
    North American Particle Accelerator Conference (2025)
    [paper] [poster]

  2. MENT-Flow: maximum-entropy tomography using normalizing flows
    A. Hoover and C. Wong
    International Particle Accelerator Conference (2024)
    [poster] [paper]

  3. 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)
    [paper] [slides]

  4. Detailed characterization of a five-dimensional phase space distribution
    A. Hoover, K. Ruisard, A. Aleksandrov, S. Cousineau, A. Zhukov
    International Particle Accelerator Conference (2023)
    [poster] [paper]

  5. Measurements of the five-dimensional phase space distribution of an intense ion beam
    A. Hoover, K. Ruisard, A. Aleksandrov, S. Cousineau, and A. Zhukov
    North American Particle Accelerator Conference (2022)
    [paper] slides]

  6. Model/measurement comparison of the transverse phase space distribution of an RFQ-generated bunch at the SNS BTF
    K. Ruisard, A. Aleksandrov, S. Cousineau, A. Hoover, A. Zhukov
    North American Particle Accelerator Conference (2022)
    [paper] [slides]

  7. Development of an injection-painted self-consistent beam at the Spallation Neutron Source
    A. Hoover, N. Evans, T. Gorlov, J. Holmes
    ICFA Workshop on High-Intensity and High-Brightness Hadron Beams (2021)
    [paper] [slides]

  8. Simulation of 4D emittance measurement at the Spallation Neutron Source
    A. Hoover, N. Evans
    International Particle Accelerator Conference (2021)
    [paper]

Contributed (coauthor)

  1. Beam loss modeling and mitigation due to intra-beam stripping
    S. Kakkar, V. Morozov, L. Lee, N. Evans, A. Zhukov, A. Hoover
    North American Particle Accelerator Conference (2025)

  2. Exploring space charge mitigation with eigenpainting at the SNS
    N.J. Evans, A. Hoover, T. Gorlov, V. Morozov
    North American Particle Accelerator Conference (2025)

  3. Benchmark of linac model and phase space measurements at the SNS Beam Test Facility
    K. Ruisard, A. Aleksandrov, A. Hoover, T. Thompson, and A. Zhukov
    International Computational Accelerator Physics Conference (2024)

  4. Progress toward halo modeling at the SNS Beam Test Facility
    K. Ruisard, A. Aleksandrov, A. Hoover, T. Thompson, and A. Zhukov
    Linear Accelerator Conference (2024)

  5. Proposed muon collider R&D at the SNS
    V. Morozov, A. Hoover, D. Stratakis, F. Pilat, N. Evans, and S. Cousineau
    International Particle Accelerator Conference (2024)

  6. Measurement and modeling of beam transport in the FODO line of the Spallation Neutron Source Beam Test Facility
    T. Thompson, K. Ruisard, A. Hoover, A. Aleksandrov, and A. Zhukov
    International Particle Accelerator Conference (2024)

  7. Status of Spallation Neutron Source Beam Test Facility and progress of beam dynamics studies
    K. Ruisard, A. Aleksandrov, S. Cousineau, R. Dickson, B. Han, A. Hoover, A. Shishlo, T. Thompson, V. Tzoganis, R. Welton, and A. Zhukov International Particle Accelerator Conference (2024)

  8. Self-consistent injection painting for space charge mitigation
    N. Evans, A. Hoover, T. Gorlov, V. Morozov
    ICFA Workshop on High-Intensity and High-Brightness Hadron Beams (2023)

  9. Measurements at peak operational beam current in the SNS beam test facility
    K. Ruisard, A. Hoover, A. Aleksandrov, A. Zhukov, S. Cousineau
    International Particle Accelerator Conference (2023)

  10. Phase space painting of a self-consistent Danilov distribution in the SNS Ring
    N. Evans, A. Hoover, T. Gorlov, V. Morozov
    International Particle Accelerator Conference (2023)

  11. Observation of current- driven features of 2.5 MeV ion bunch with complete and efficient 5D measurements at the SNS Beam Test Facility
    K. Ruisard, A. Aleksandrov, S. Cousineau. A. Hoover, A. Zhukov
    International Linear Accelerator Conference (2022)

  12. Open XAL Status Report 2022
    A. Zhukov, A. Hoover, A. Shishlo, J. F. Esteban Müller, E. Laface, Y. Levinsen, N. Milas
    International Particle Accelerator Conference (2022)

Newsletter

  1. Six-dimensional distributions at the SNS Beam Test Facility
    K. Ruisard, A. Aleksandrov, A. Hoover
    APS Division of Physics of Beams Annual Newsletter (2022)

Dissertation

  1. Towards the production of a self-consistent phase space distribution
    A. Hoover
    PhD Diss., University of Tennessee (2022)

Footnotes

  1. In conferences such as IPAC, papers typically report work in progress (before journal submission) or summarize work published elsewhere.↩︎