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