Exploring QCD matter in extreme conditions with Machine Learning

K Zhou, L Wang, LG Pang, S Shi - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, machine learning has emerged as a powerful computational tool and novel
problem-solving perspective for physics, offering new avenues for studying strongly …

High-energy nuclear physics meets machine learning

WB He, YG Ma, LG Pang, HC Song, K Zhou - Nuclear Science and …, 2023 - Springer
Although seemingly disparate, high-energy nuclear physics (HENP) and machine learning
(ML) have begun to merge in the last few years, yielding interesting results. It is worthy to …

Continuum-extrapolated NNLO valence PDF of the pion at the physical point

X Gao, AD Hanlon, N Karthik, S Mukherjee… - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We present lattice QCD calculations of the valence parton distribution function (PDF) of pion
employing next-to-next-leading-order (NNLO) perturbative QCD matching. Our calculations …

Reconstructing the neutron star equation of state from observational data via automatic differentiation

S Soma, L Wang, S Shi, H Stöcker, K Zhou - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
Neutron star observables like masses, radii, and tidal deformability are direct probes to the
dense matter equation of state (EoS). A novel deep learning method that optimizes an EoS …

Hadronic vacuum polarization: comparing lattice QCD and data-driven results in systematically improvable ways

M Davier, Z Fodor, A Gérardin, L Lellouch, B Malaescu… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The precision with which hadronic vacuum polarization (HVP) is obtained determines how
accurately important observables, such as the muon anomalous magnetic moment a μ or the …

Physics-driven learning for inverse problems in quantum chromodynamics

G Aarts, K Fukushima, T Hatsuda, A Ipp, S Shi… - Nature Reviews …, 2025 - nature.com
The integration of deep learning techniques and physics-driven designs is reforming the
way we address inverse problems, in which accurate physical properties are extracted from …

Neural network reconstruction of the dense matter equation of state from neutron star observables

S Soma, L Wang, S Shi, H Stöcker… - Journal of Cosmology …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Equation of State (EoS) of strongly interacting cold and hot ultra-dense QCD
matter remains a major challenge in the field of nuclear astrophysics. With the …

Rethinking the ill-posedness of the spectral function reconstruction—Why is it fundamentally hard and how Artificial Neural Networks can help

S Shi, L Wang, K Zhou - Computer Physics Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
Reconstructing hadron spectral functions through Euclidean correlation functions are of the
important missions in lattice QCD calculations. However, in a Källen–Lehmann (KL) spectral …

Examination of nucleon distribution with Bayesian imaging for isobar collisions

YL Cheng, S Shi, YG Ma, H Stöcker, K Zhou - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
Relativistic collision of isobaric systems is found to be valuable in differentiating the nucleon
distributions for nuclei with the same mass number. In recent contrasting experiments of Ru …

Hadronic structure, conformal maps, and analytic continuation

T Bergamaschi, WI Jay, PR Oare - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We present a method for analytic continuation of retarded Green's functions, including
Euclidean Green's functions computed using lattice QCD. The method is based on …