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 …

Toward the end-to-end optimization of particle physics instruments with differentiable programming

T Dorigo, A Giammanco, P Vischia, M Aehle, M Bawaj… - Reviews in Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
The full optimization of the design and operation of instruments whose functioning relies on
the interaction of radiation with matter is a super-human task, due to the large dimensionality …

Bayesian optimization of a laser-plasma accelerator

S Jalas, M Kirchen, P Messner, P Winkler, L Hübner… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
Generating high-quality laser-plasma accelerated electron beams requires carefully
balancing a plethora of physical effects and is therefore challenging—both conceptually and …

Automation and control of laser wakefield accelerators using Bayesian optimization

RJ Shalloo, SJD Dann, JN Gruse… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Laser wakefield accelerators promise to revolutionize many areas of accelerator science.
However, one of the greatest challenges to their widespread adoption is the difficulty in …

Modern applications of machine learning in quantum sciences

A Dawid, J Arnold, B Requena, A Gresch… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
In these Lecture Notes, we provide a comprehensive introduction to the most recent
advances in the application of machine learning methods in quantum sciences. We cover …

Machine learning for orders of magnitude speedup in multiobjective optimization of particle accelerator systems

A Edelen, N Neveu, M Frey, Y Huber, C Mayes… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2020 - APS
High-fidelity physics simulations are powerful tools in the design and optimization of
charged particle accelerators. However, the computational burden of these simulations often …

An ultra-compact x-ray free-electron laser

JB Rosenzweig, N Majernik, RR Robles… - New Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In the field of beam physics, two frontier topics have taken center stage due to their potential
to enable new approaches to discovery in a wide swath of science. These areas are …

Sample-efficient reinforcement learning for CERN accelerator control

V Kain, S Hirlander, B Goddard, FM Velotti… - … Review Accelerators and …, 2020 - APS
Numerical optimization algorithms are already established tools to increase and stabilize the
performance of particle accelerators. These algorithms have many advantages, are …

2022 review of data-driven plasma science

R Anirudh, R Archibald, MS Asif… - … on Plasma Science, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data-driven science and technology offer transformative tools and methods to science. This
review article highlights the latest development and progress in the interdisciplinary field of …

Learning-based optimisation of particle accelerators under partial observability without real-world training

J Kaiser, O Stein, A Eichler - International Conference on …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
In recent work, it has been shown that reinforcement learning (RL) is capable of solving a
variety of problems at sometimes super-human performance levels. But despite continued …