Colloquium: Machine learning in nuclear physics

A Boehnlein, M Diefenthaler, N Sato, M Schram… - Reviews of modern …, 2022 - APS
Advances in machine learning methods provide tools that have broad applicability in
scientific research. These techniques are being applied across the diversity of nuclear …

Machine learning in nuclear physics at low and intermediate energies

W He, Q Li, Y Ma, Z Niu, J Pei, Y Zhang - Science China Physics …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Machine learning (ML) is becoming a new paradigm for scientific research in
various research fields due to its exciting and powerful capability of modeling tools used for …

Unified equations of state for cold non-accreting neutron stars with Brussels–Montreal functionals–I. Role of symmetry energy

JM Pearson, N Chamel, AY Potekhin… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The theory of the nuclear energy-density functional is used to provide a unified and
thermodynamically consistent treatment of all regions of cold non-accreting neutron stars. In …

[HTML][HTML] Nuclear mass predictions based on Bayesian neural network approach with pairing and shell effects

ZM Niu, HZ Liang - Physics Letters B, 2018 - Elsevier
Bayesian neural network (BNN) approach is employed to improve the nuclear mass
predictions of various models. It is found that the noise error in the likelihood function plays …

Bayesian approach to model-based extrapolation of nuclear observables

L Neufcourt, Y Cao, W Nazarewicz, F Viens - Physical Review C, 2018 - APS
Background: The mass, or binding energy, is the basis property of the atomic nucleus. It
determines its stability and reaction and decay rates. Quantifying the nuclear binding is …

Machine learning the nuclear mass

ZP Gao, YJ Wang, HL Lü, QF Li, CW Shen… - Nuclear Science and …, 2021 - Springer
Background: The masses of ∼∼ 2500 nuclei have been measured experimentally;
however,> 7000 isotopes are predicted to exist in the nuclear landscape from H (Z= 1 Z= 1) …

Nuclear mass predictions with machine learning reaching the accuracy required by -process studies

ZM Niu, HZ Liang - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
Nuclear masses are predicted with the Bayesian neural networks by learning the mass
surface of even-even nuclei and the correlation energies to their neighboring nuclei. By …

Neutron drip line in the Ca region from Bayesian model averaging

L Neufcourt, Y Cao, W Nazarewicz, E Olsen, F Viens - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
The region of heavy calcium isotopes forms the frontier of experimental and theoretical
nuclear structure research where the basic concepts of nuclear physics are put to stringent …

Get on the BAND wagon: a Bayesian framework for quantifying model uncertainties in nuclear dynamics

DR Phillips, RJ Furnstahl, U Heinz, T Maiti… - Journal of Physics G …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe the Bayesian analysis of nuclear dynamics (BAND) framework, a
cyberinfrastructure that we are developing which will unify the treatment of nuclear models …

r-process nucleosynthesis: connecting rare-isotope beam facilities with the cosmos

CJ Horowitz, A Arcones, B Cote… - Journal of Physics G …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
This is an exciting time for the study of r-process nucleosynthesis. Recently, a neutron star
merger GW170817 was observed in extraordinary detail with gravitational waves and …