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 …

Recent progress in two-proton radioactivity

L Zhou, SM Wang, DQ Fang, YG Ma - Nuclear Science and Techniques, 2022 - Springer
During the last few decades, rare isotope beam facilities have provided unique data for
studying the properties of nuclides located far from the beta-stability line. Such nuclei are …

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 …

Local Bayesian Dirichlet mixing of imperfect models

V Kejzlar, L Neufcourt, W Nazarewicz - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
To improve the predictability of complex computational models in the experimentally-
unknown domains, we propose a Bayesian statistical machine learning framework utilizing …

Nuclear fragments in projectile fragmentation reactions

CW Ma, HL Wei, XQ Liu, J Su, H Zheng, WP Lin… - Progress in Particle and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Theoretical prediction shows that about 9000 nuclei could be bounded, of which the
properties will be hot topics in the new nuclear physics era opened by the new third …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-task learning on nuclear masses and separation energies with the kernel ridge regression

XH Wu, YY Lu, PW Zhao - Physics Letters B, 2022 - Elsevier
A multi-task learning (MTL) framework, called gradient kernel ridge regression, for nuclear
masses and separation energies is developed by introducing gradient kernel functions to …

Quantified limits of the nuclear landscape

L Neufcourt, Y Cao, SA Giuliani, W Nazarewicz… - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
Background: The chart of the nuclides is limited by particle drip lines beyond which nuclear
stability to proton or neutron emission is lost. Predicting the range of particle-bound isotopes …

Landscape of pear-shaped even-even nuclei

Y Cao, SE Agbemava, AV Afanasjev, W Nazarewicz… - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
Background: The phenomenon of reflection-asymmetric nuclear shapes is relevant to
nuclear stability, nuclear spectroscopy, nuclear decays and fission, and the search for new …

Two-proton emission and related phenomena

M Pfützner, I Mukha, SM Wang - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
One of characteristic phenomena for nuclei beyond the proton dripline is the simultaneous
emission of two protons (2p). The current status of our knowledge of this most recently …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient emulators for scattering using eigenvector continuation

RJ Furnstahl, AJ Garcia, PJ Millican, X Zhang - Physics Letters B, 2020 - Elsevier
Eigenvector continuation (EC) has been shown to accurately and efficiently reproduce
ground states for targeted sets of Hamiltonian parameters. It uses as variational basis …