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2026

Proceedings of the 17th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'26)

Learning Beam Dynamics in the Latent Space of Beam Distributions

Ningdong Wang, Ireanne Cao, Georg Hoffstaetter

BibTeX
@inproceedings{wang:ipac2026-thp5347,
    author = {Wang, Ningdong and Cao, Ireanne and Hoffstaetter, Georg},
    title = {Learning Beam Dynamics in the Latent Space of Beam Distributions},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'26)},
    pages = {4776--4779},
    paper = {THP5347},
    publisher = {JACoW Publishing},
    month = {07},
    year = {2026},
    doi = {10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2026-THP5347},
    url = {https://www.ipac26.org/prepress/pdf/THP5347.pdf}
}

Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Beam Cooling and Related Topics (COOL'25)

Design of a Microbunched Electron Cooler Energy Recovery Linac

Kirsten Deitrick, Stephen Benson, B. R. Gamage, Jiquan Guo, Isurumali Neththikumara, Robert Rimmer, Todd Satogata, Nicholas Sereno, Sadiq Setiniyaz, Joseph Conway, Bruce Dunham, R. Eichhorn, Colwyn Gulliford, V. Kostroun, Christopher Mayes, K. Smolenski, Nicholas Taylor, William Bergan, Erdong Wang, Derong Xu, Ningdong Wang

BibTeX
@inproceedings{deitrick:cool2025-thb1,
    author = {Deitrick, Kirsten and Benson, Stephen and Gamage, B. R. and Guo, Jiquan and Neththikumara, Isurumali and Rimmer, Robert and Satogata, Todd and Sereno, Nicholas and Setiniyaz, Sadiq and Conway, Joseph and Dunham, Bruce and Eichhorn, R. and Gulliford, Colwyn and Kostroun, V. and Mayes, Christopher and Smolenski, K. and Taylor, Nicholas and Bergan, William and Wang, Erdong and Xu, Derong and Wang, Ningdong},
    title = {Design of a Microbunched Electron Cooler Energy Recovery Linac},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Beam Cooling and Related Topics (COOL'25)},
    pages = {88--92},
    paper = {THB1},
    publisher = {JACoW Publishing},
    month = {05},
    year = {2026},
    eventdate = {2025-10-26/2025-10-31},
    doi = {10.18429/JACoW-COOL2025-THB1},
    url = {https://proceedings.jacow.org/cool2025/pdf/THB1.pdf}
}

Proceedings of the 17th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'26)

Status of Osprey: A Framework for Agentic AI in Control Systems

T. Hellert, G. Martino, R. Lehe, A. Huebl, K. Iliev, S. C. Leemann, A. Sulc, J.-L. Vay, A. Wu, E. Zoni, Z. Zhang, N. Kuklev, M. Smith, H. Shang, C. Xu, A. Carpenter, Ningdong Wang, Multi-Office Accelerator Team

BibTeX
@inproceedings{hellert:ipac2026-mop6322,
    author = {Hellert, T. and Martino, G. and Lehe, R. and Huebl, A. and Iliev, K. and Leemann, S. C. and Sulc, A. and Vay, J.-L. and Wu, A. and Zoni, E. and Zhang, Z. and Kuklev, N. and Smith, M. and Shang, H. and Xu, C. and Carpenter, A. and Wang, Ningdong and {Multi-Office Accelerator Team}},
    title = {Status of Osprey: A Framework for Agentic AI in Control Systems},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 17th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'26)},
    pages = {433--435},
    paper = {MOP6322},
    publisher = {JACoW Publishing},
    month = {07},
    year = {2026},
    doi = {10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2026-MOP6322},
    url = {https://indico.jacow.org/event/95/contributions/12485/attachments/2030/8375/MOP6322_edited_version.pdf}
}

2025

Proceedings of the North American Particle Accelerator Conference (NAPAC2025)

Multi-objective optimization of Strong Hadron Cooler Energy Recovery Linac injector

Ningdong Wang, G. H. Hoffstaetter de Torquat, Kirsten Deitrick, Isurumali Neththikumara, Todd Satogata, Nicholas Sereno, Sadiq Setiniyaz, William Bergan, Erdong Wang

BibTeX
@inproceedings{wang:napac2025-tup069,
    author = {Wang, Ningdong and Hoffstaetter de Torquat, G. H. and Deitrick, Kirsten and Neththikumara, Isurumali and Satogata, Todd and Sereno, Nicholas and Setiniyaz, Sadiq and Bergan, William and Wang, Erdong},
    title = {Multi-objective optimization of Strong Hadron Cooler Energy Recovery Linac injector},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the North American Particle Accelerator Conference (NAPAC2025)},
    pages = {525--528},
    paper = {TUP069},
    venue = {Sacramento, CA, USA},
    publisher = {JACoW Publishing},
    month = {08},
    year = {2025},
    doi = {10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2025-TUP069},
    url = {https://proceedings.jacow.org/napac2025/pdf/TUP069.pdf}
}

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Electron Ion Collider Strong Hadron Cooling design Summary

Erdong Wang, William Bergan, Panagiotis Baxevanis, Michael Blaskiewicz, Alexei Blednykh, Luca Cultrera, Jun Ma, Vadim Ptitsyn, Triveni Rao, Gang Wang, Ferdinand Willeke, Derong Xu, Nick Sereno, Steve Benson, Z. A. Conway, Kirsten Deitrick, Bamunuvita Gamage, Jiquan Guo, Isurumali Neththikumara, Robert Rimmer, Todd Satogata, Sadiq Setiniyaz, Shaohang Wang, Ji Qiang, Alexander Zholents, Gennady Stupakov, Ningdong Wang, David Douglas, Joe Conway, Colwyn Gulliford, Christopher Mayes, Nicholas Taylor, Robert Apsimon, Graeme Burt, Rancheng Bi, Nattaphong Nuchsirikulaphong, Sara J. O'Toole, Chris Hall

BibTeX
@techreport{wang:2025-shc-design,
    author = {Wang, Erdong and Bergan, William and Baxevanis, Panagiotis and Blaskiewicz, Michael and Blednykh, Alexei and Cultrera, Luca and Ma, Jun and Ptitsyn, Vadim and Rao, Triveni and Wang, Gang and Willeke, Ferdinand and Xu, Derong and Sereno, Nick and Benson, Steve and Conway, Z. A. and Deitrick, Kirsten and Gamage, Bamunuvita and Guo, Jiquan and Neththikumara, Isurumali and Rimmer, Robert and Satogata, Todd and Setiniyaz, Sadiq and Wang, Shaohang and Qiang, Ji and Zholents, Alexander and Stupakov, Gennady and Wang, Ningdong and Douglas, David and Conway, Joe and Gulliford, Colwyn and Mayes, Christopher and Taylor, Nicholas and Apsimon, Robert and Burt, Graeme and Bi, Rancheng and Nuchsirikulaphong, Nattaphong and O'Toole, Sara J. and Hall, Chris},
    title = {Electron Ion Collider Strong Hadron Cooling design Summary},
    institution = {Brookhaven National Laboratory},
    number = {BNL-228488-2025-TECH; EIC-ADD-TN-130},
    month = {07},
    year = {2025},
    url = {https://technotes.bnl.gov/PDF?publicationId=228488}
}

Proceedings of the North American Particle Accelerator Conference (NAPAC2025)

Beam halo formation with different cathode distributions

Isurumali Neththikumara, Kirsten Deitrick, B. R. Gamage, Robert Rimmer, Todd Satogata, Nicholas Sereno, Sadiq Setiniyaz, William Bergan, Erdong Wang, Ningdong Wang

BibTeX
@inproceedings{neththikumara:napac2025-tup015,
    author = {Neththikumara, Isurumali and Deitrick, Kirsten and Gamage, B. R. and Rimmer, Robert and Satogata, Todd and Sereno, Nicholas and Setiniyaz, Sadiq and Bergan, William and Wang, Erdong and Wang, Ningdong},
    title = {Beam halo formation with different cathode distributions},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the North American Particle Accelerator Conference (NAPAC2025)},
    pages = {379--382},
    paper = {TUP015},
    venue = {Sacramento, CA, USA},
    publisher = {JACoW Publishing},
    month = {08},
    year = {2025},
    doi = {10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2025-TUP015},
    url = {https://proceedings.jacow.org/napac2025/pdf/TUP015.pdf}
}

Proceedings of the North American Particle Accelerator Conference (NAPAC2025)

Space charge studies on strong hadron cooler energy recovery linac

Isurumali Neththikumara, Kirsten Deitrick, B. R. Gamage, Todd Satogata, Nicholas Sereno, Sadiq Setiniyaz, William Bergan, Erdong Wang, Ningdong Wang

BibTeX
@inproceedings{neththikumara:napac2025-tup091,
    author = {Neththikumara, Isurumali and Deitrick, Kirsten and Gamage, B. R. and Satogata, Todd and Sereno, Nicholas and Setiniyaz, Sadiq and Bergan, William and Wang, Erdong and Wang, Ningdong},
    title = {Space charge studies on strong hadron cooler energy recovery linac},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the North American Particle Accelerator Conference (NAPAC2025)},
    pages = {584--587},
    paper = {TUP091},
    venue = {Sacramento, CA, USA},
    publisher = {JACoW Publishing},
    month = {08},
    year = {2025},
    doi = {10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2025-TUP091},
    url = {https://proceedings.jacow.org/napac2025/pdf/TUP091.pdf}
}

Proceedings of the North American Particle Accelerator Conference (NAPAC2025)

Design of a microbunched electron cooler energy recovery linac

Kirsten Deitrick, Stephen Benson, B. R. Gamage, Jiquan Guo, Isurumali Neththikumara, Robert Rimmer, Todd Satogata, Nicholas Sereno, Sadiq Setiniyaz, Joseph Conway, Bruce Dunham, R. Eichhorn, Colwyn Gulliford, V. Kostroun, Christopher Mayes, K. Smolenski, Nicholas Taylor, William Bergan, D. Kayran, Erdong Wang, Derong Xu, Ningdong Wang

BibTeX
@inproceedings{deitrick:napac2025-thp022,
    author = {Deitrick, Kirsten and Benson, Stephen and Gamage, B. R. and Guo, Jiquan and Neththikumara, Isurumali and Rimmer, Robert and Satogata, Todd and Sereno, Nicholas and Setiniyaz, Sadiq and Conway, Joseph and Dunham, Bruce and Eichhorn, R. and Gulliford, Colwyn and Kostroun, V. and Mayes, Christopher and Smolenski, K. and Taylor, Nicholas and Bergan, William and Kayran, D. and Wang, Erdong and Xu, Derong and Wang, Ningdong},
    title = {Design of a microbunched electron cooler energy recovery linac},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the North American Particle Accelerator Conference (NAPAC2025)},
    pages = {993--996},
    paper = {THP022},
    venue = {Sacramento, CA, USA},
    publisher = {JACoW Publishing},
    month = {08},
    year = {2025},
    doi = {10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2025-THP022},
    url = {https://proceedings.jacow.org/napac2025/pdf/THP022.pdf}
}

2024

Proceedings of the 15th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'24)

Optimization of cooling distribution of the EIC SHC cooler ERL

Ningdong Wang, David Sagan, G. H. Hoffstaetter de Torquat, Kirsten Deitrick, Stephen Benson, Isurumali Neththikumara, Todd Satogata, Nicholas Sereno, William Bergan, Erdong Wang, Colwyn Gulliford, Christopher Mayes

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Wang:2024cko,
    author = {Wang, Ningdong and Sagan, David and Hoffstaetter de Torquat, G. H. and Deitrick, Kirsten and Benson, Stephen and Neththikumara, Isurumali and Satogata, Todd and Sereno, Nicholas and Bergan, William and Wang, Erdong and Gulliford, Colwyn and Mayes, Christopher},
    title = {Optimization of cooling distribution of the EIC SHC cooler ERL},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'24)},
    pages = {1104--1107},
    paper = {TUPC43},
    publisher = {JACoW Publishing},
    year = {2024},
    doi = {10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2024-TUPC43},
    url = {https://proceedings.jacow.org/ipac2024/pdf/TUPC43.pdf},
    selected = {true}
}

Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Beam Cooling and Related Topics (COOL'23)

Development of an ERL for Coherent Electron Cooling at the Electron-Ion Collider

Kirsten Deitrick, Stephen Benson, Joseph Conway, Bruce Dunham, R. Eichhorn, Colwyn Gulliford, V. Kostroun, Christopher Mayes, K. Smolenski, Nicholas Taylor, William Bergan, Alexei Fedotov, D. Kayran, Erdong Wang, Derong Xu, Ningdong Wang

BibTeX
@inproceedings{deitrick:cool2023-thposrp17,
    author = {Deitrick, Kirsten and Benson, Stephen and Conway, Joseph and Dunham, Bruce and Eichhorn, R. and Gulliford, Colwyn and Kostroun, V. and Mayes, Christopher and Smolenski, K. and Taylor, Nicholas and Bergan, William and Fedotov, Alexei and Kayran, D. and Wang, Erdong and Xu, Derong and Wang, Ningdong},
    title = {Development of an ERL for Coherent Electron Cooling at the Electron-Ion Collider},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Workshop on Beam Cooling and Related Topics (COOL'23)},
    pages = {87--90},
    paper = {THPOSRP17},
    publisher = {JACoW Publishing},
    month = {04},
    year = {2024},
    eventdate = {2023-10-08/2023-10-13},
    doi = {10.18429/JACoW-COOL2023-THPOSRP17},
    url = {https://proceedings.jacow.org/cool2023/papers/thposrp17.pdf}
}

Proceedings of the 15th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'24)

Coherent electron cooling physics for the EIC

William F. Bergan, Panagiotis Baxevanis, Michael Blaskiewicz, Jun Ma, Erdong Wang, Gang Wang, Derong Xu, Ningdong Wang, Ji Qiang, Gennady Stupakov, Stephen Benson, Kirsten Deitrick, Joseph Conway, Colwyn Gulliford, Christopher Mayes, Nicholas Taylor

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Bergan:2024fbo,
    author = {Bergan, William F. and Baxevanis, Panagiotis and Blaskiewicz, Michael and Ma, Jun and Wang, Erdong and Wang, Gang and Xu, Derong and Wang, Ningdong and Qiang, Ji and Stupakov, Gennady and Benson, Stephen and Deitrick, Kirsten and Conway, Joseph and Gulliford, Colwyn and Mayes, Christopher and Taylor, Nicholas},
    title = {Coherent electron cooling physics for the EIC},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'24)},
    pages = {2937--2942},
    paper = {THYD1},
    publisher = {JACoW Publishing},
    year = {2024},
    doi = {10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2024-THYD1},
    url = {https://proceedings.jacow.org/ipac2024/pdf/THYD1.pdf}
}

Proceedings of the 15th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'24)

Development of an ERL for coherent electron cooling at the Electron-Ion Collider

Kirsten Deitrick, Stephen Benson, Isurumali Neththikumara, Todd Satogata, Nicholas Sereno, Sadiq Setiniyaz, Joseph Conway, Bruce Dunham, R. Eichhorn, Colwyn Gulliford, V. Kostroun, Christopher Mayes, K. Smolenski, Nicholas Taylor, William Bergan, Alexei Fedotov, D. Kayran, Erdong Wang, Derong Xu, Ningdong Wang

BibTeX
@inproceedings{deitrick2024development,
    author = {Deitrick, Kirsten and Benson, Stephen and Neththikumara, Isurumali and Satogata, Todd and Sereno, Nicholas and Setiniyaz, Sadiq and Conway, Joseph and Dunham, Bruce and Eichhorn, R. and Gulliford, Colwyn and Kostroun, V. and Mayes, Christopher and Smolenski, K. and Taylor, Nicholas and Bergan, William and Fedotov, Alexei and Kayran, D. and Wang, Erdong and Xu, Derong and Wang, Ningdong},
    title = {Development of an ERL for coherent electron cooling at the Electron-Ion Collider},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'24)},
    pages = {3086--3089},
    paper = {THPC40},
    publisher = {JACoW Publishing},
    year = {2024},
    doi = {10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2024-THPC40},
    url = {https://proceedings.jacow.org/ipac2024/pdf/THPC40.pdf}
}

2023

Proceedings of the 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'23)

EIC cooler injector space charge benchmark

Ningdong Wang, David Sagan, Georg Hoffstaetter, Colwyn Gulliford, Christopher Mayes

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Wang:2023dkc,
    author = {Wang, Ningdong and Sagan, David and Hoffstaetter, Georg and Gulliford, Colwyn and Mayes, Christopher},
    title = {EIC cooler injector space charge benchmark},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'23)},
    pages = {2108--2111},
    paper = {TUPL157},
    publisher = {JACoW Publishing},
    year = {2023},
    doi = {10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2023-TUPL157},
    url = {https://proceedings.jacow.org/ipac2023/pdf/TUPL157.pdf},
    selected = {true}
}

Proceedings of the 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'23)

Longitudinal laser shaping at the EIC cooler injector

Ningdong Wang, Georg H. Hoffstaetter, Habeeb D. Khayat, David Sagan

BibTeX
@inproceedings{wang:ipac2023-tupl158,
    author = {Wang, Ningdong and Hoffstaetter, Georg H. and Khayat, Habeeb D. and Sagan, David},
    title = {Longitudinal laser shaping at the EIC cooler injector},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'23)},
    pages = {2112--2114},
    paper = {TUPL158},
    publisher = {JACoW Publishing},
    year = {2023},
    doi = {10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2023-TUPL158},
    url = {https://proceedings.jacow.org/ipac2023/pdf/TUPL158.pdf}
}

Proceedings of the 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'23)

Design and optimization of an ERL for cooling EIC hadron beams

Colwyn Gulliford, Joseph Conway, David Douglas, Bruce Dunham, R. Eichhorn, V. Kostroun, Christopher Mayes, K. Smolenski, Nicholas Taylor, Erdong Wang, William Bergan, Alexei Fedotov, D. Kayran, Stephen Benson, Kirsten Deitrick, Ningdong Wang

BibTeX
@inproceedings{gulliford2023design,
    author = {Gulliford, Colwyn and Conway, Joseph and Douglas, David and Dunham, Bruce and Eichhorn, R. and Kostroun, V. and Mayes, Christopher and Smolenski, K. and Taylor, Nicholas and Wang, Erdong and Bergan, William and Fedotov, Alexei and Kayran, D. and Benson, Stephen and Deitrick, Kirsten and Wang, Ningdong},
    title = {Design and optimization of an ERL for cooling EIC hadron beams},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'23)},
    pages = {73--76},
    paper = {MOPA016},
    publisher = {JACoW Publishing},
    year = {2023},
    doi = {10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2023-MOPA016},
    url = {https://proceedings.jacow.org/ipac2023/pdf/MOPA016.pdf}
}

2022

Proceedings of the 13th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'22)

Cathode Space Charge in Bmad

Ningdong Wang, James Crittenden, Georg Hoffstaetter, David Sagan, Colwyn Gulliford, Christopher Mayes

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Wang:2022feu,
    author = {Wang, Ningdong and Crittenden, James and Hoffstaetter, Georg and Sagan, David and Gulliford, Colwyn and Mayes, Christopher},
    title = {Cathode Space Charge in Bmad},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th International Particle Accelerator Conference (IPAC'22)},
    pages = {2380--2382},
    paper = {WEPOMS055},
    publisher = {JACoW Publishing},
    year = {2022},
    doi = {10.18429/JACoW-IPAC2022-WEPOMS055},
    url = {https://proceedings.jacow.org/ipac2022/papers/wepoms055.pdf},
    selected = {true}
}