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URLhttps://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2025-MOP002
TitleAdvancing accelerator virtual beam diagnostics through Latent Evolution Modeling: An integrated solution to forward, inverse, tuning, and UQ problems
Authors
  • M. Rautela, A. Scheinker
    Los Alamos National Laboratory
AbstractVirtual beam diagnostics relies on computationally intensive beam dynamics simulations where high-dimensional charged particle beams evolve through the accelerator. We propose Latent Evolution Model (LEM), a hybrid machine learning framework with an autoencoder that projects high-dimensional phase spaces into lower-dimensional representations, coupled with transformers to learn temporal dynamics in the latent space. This approach provides a common foundational framework addressing multiple interconnected challenges in beam diagnostics. For *forward modeling*, a Conditional Variational Autoencoder (CVAE) encodes 15 unique projections of the 6D phase space into a latent representation, while a transformer predicts downstream latent states from upstream inputs. For *inverse problems*, we address two distinct challenges: (a) predicting upstream phase spaces from downstream observations by utilizing the pretrained CVAE with transformers trained on reversed temporal sequences, and (b) estimating RF settings from the latent space of the trained LEM using a dedicated dense neural network that maps latent representations to RF parameters. For *tuning problems*, we leverage the trained LEM and RF estimator within a Bayesian optimization framework to determine optimal RF settings that minimize beam loss. This paper summarizes our recent efforts and demonstrates how this unified approach effectively addresses these traditionally separate challenges.
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ConferenceNorth American Particle Accelerator Conference (NAPAC2025)
Series
LocationSacramento, CA, USA
Date10-15 Aug 2025
PublisherJACoW Publishing, Geneva, Switzerland
Editorial BoardTor O. Raubenheimer (SLAC), Roark A. Marsh (LLNL), Eric Prebys (UC Davis), Ling Wang (FRIB), Petr Anisimov (LANL), Kip Bishofberger (LANL), Gustavo Bruno (ANL), Zhichu Chen (SARI), Jan Chrin (PSI), Kelly Jaje (ANL), Jaeyu Lee (POSTECH), Magdalena Montes-Loera (SLAC), Mary Saethre (PHENOTYPE), Tasha Summers (SLAC), Kent Wootton (ANL)
Online ISBN978-3-95450-261-5
Online ISSN2673-7000
Received08 August 2025
Revised13 August 2025
Accepted14 August 2025
Issued28 August 2025
DOI10.18429/JACoW-NAPAC2025-MOP002
Pages38-41