Pavel Snopok

  • Chair, Department of Physics
  • Professor

Education

M.S. Michigan State University
M.S. St. Petersburg State University, Russia
Ph.D. Michigan State University
Ph.D. St. Petersburg State University, Russia

Research Interests

  • Beam physics
  • Accelerator physics
  • Neutrino physics
  • Computational physics
  • Advanced accelerator design and simulation
  • Machine learning
  • Nonlinear dynamical system analysis
  • Normal form methods
  • Mathematical modeling
  • Optimization methods

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

Publications

Selected Publications

O. Gilanliogullari, B. Mustapha, P. Snopok, 鈥淢inimizing Space Charge Tune Spread and Increasing Beam Quality Parameters with Circular Modes,鈥 Proc. 15th Int. Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'24), paper THPC71, pp. 3190-3193 (2024)

O. Gilanliogullari, B. Mustapha, P. Snopok, 鈥淐ircular Modes for Mitigating Space-Charge Effects and Enabling Flat Beams,鈥 Proc. 5th North American Particle Accel. Conf. NAPAC2022, pp. 189-192 (2024)

Y. Yu, T. Carroll, S. Ganguly, K. Lang, E. Ossorio, P. Snopok, J. Thomas, D. Wickremasinghe, K. Yonehara, 鈥淣uMI Beam Monitoring Simulation and Data Analysis,鈥 Proc. NuFACT'22, Phys. Sci. Forum 2023, 8(1), 73

K.M. Black et al. 鈥淢uon Collider Forum report,鈥 JINST 19 T02015 (2024)

M. Acero et al. [NOvA Collaboration], 鈥淚mproved measurement of neutrino oscillation parameters by the NOvA experiment,鈥 Phys. Rev. D 106 (2022) 032004

M. Bogomilov et al. [MICE collaboration], 鈥淒emonstration of cooling by the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment,鈥 Nature (2020) 578(7793):53-59

B. Abi et al. [DUNE Collaboration], 鈥淟ong-baseline neutrino oscillation physics potential of the DUNE experiment,鈥 Eur. Phys J. C 80, 978 (2020)

M. Acero et al. [NOvA Collaboration], 鈥淔irst Measurement of Neutrino Oscillation Parameters using Neutrinos and Antineutrinos by NOvA,鈥 Phys. Rev. Lett. 123 (2019) 151803

D. Adams et al. [MICE Collaboration], 鈥淔irst particle-by-particle measurement of emittance in the Muon Ionization Cooling Experiment,鈥 Eur. Phys. J. C 79, 257 (2019)

J. Kunz, P. Snopok, M. Berz, K. Makino, 鈥淗ybrid methods for muon accelerator simulations with ionization cooling,鈥 JINST 13(07), P07026 (2018)

 

Projects

  • DUNE (Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment)
  • LBNF (Long-baseline Neutrino Facility)
  • NOvA (NuMI Off-axis 谓e Appearance)
  • NuMI (Neutrinos at the Main Injector)
  • CAST (Chicagoland Accelerator Science Traineeship)
  • Circular modes for mitigating space-charge effects and enabling flat beams
  • Muon Colliders