Four-dimensional phase space tomography from one-dimensional measurements in a high-power hadron ring

Abstract

In this paper, we use one-dimensional measurements to infer the four-dimensional phase space density of an accumulated 1 GeV proton beam in the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) accelerator. The reconstruction was performed using MENT, an exact maximum-entropy tomography algorithm, and thus represents the most reasonable inference from the data. The reconstructed distribution reproduces the measured profiles with the same dynamic range as the measurement devices, and simulations indicate that the problem is well-constrained. Similar measurements could serve as benchmarks for simulations of intense, coupled beam dynamics in the SNS or other hadron rings.