Acknowledging the collaborators from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Chicago for discussions and technical contributions, particularly with differentiable kernel density estimation.Acknowledging the collaborators from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and the University of Chicago for discussions and technical contributions, particularly with differentiable kernel density estimation.

Collaborative Research in Accelerator Physics: Acknowledgments and DOE Funding

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I. Introduction

II. Maximum Entropy Tomography

  • A. Ment
  • B. Ment-Flow

III. Numerical Experiments

  • A. 2D reconstructions from 1D projections
  • B. 6D reconstructions from 1D projections

IV. Conclusion and Extensions

V. Acknowledgments and References

V. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

We are grateful to Ryan Roussel (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Juan Pablo Gonzalez-Aguilera (University of Chicago), and Auralee Edelen (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) for discussions that seeded the idea for this work and for sharing their differentiable kernel density estimation code.

\ This manuscript has been authored by UT Battelle, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan (http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan).

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:::info Authors:

(1) Austin Hoover, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, USA ([email protected]);

(2) Jonathan C. Wong, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China.

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:::info This paper is available on arxiv under CC BY 4.0 DEED license.

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