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 …

Theory of nuclear fission

N Schunck, D Regnier - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2022 - Elsevier
Atomic nuclei are quantum many-body systems of protons and neutrons held together by
strong nuclear forces. Under the proper conditions, nuclei can break into two (sometimes …

Equation of state for dense nucleonic matter from metamodeling. I. Foundational aspects

J Margueron, R Hoffmann Casali, F Gulminelli - Physical Review C, 2018 - APS
Metamodeling for the nucleonic equation of state (EOS), inspired from a Taylor expansion
around the saturation density of symmetric nuclear matter, is proposed and parameterized in …

Future of nuclear fission theory

M Bender, R Bernard, G Bertsch, S Chiba… - Journal of Physics G …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
There has been much recent interest in nuclear fission, due in part to a new appreciation of
its relevance to astrophysics, stability of superheavy elements, and fundamental theory of …

Microscopic theory of nuclear fission: a review

N Schunck, LM Robledo - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This article reviews how nuclear fission is described within nuclear density functional theory.
A distinction should be made between spontaneous fission, where half-lives are the main …

Combining electromagnetic and gravitational-wave constraints on neutron-star masses and radii

M Al-Mamun, AW Steiner, J Nättilä, J Lange… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We perform a joint Bayesian inference of neutron-star mass and radius constraints based on
GW170817, observations of quiescent low-mass x-ray binaries (QLMXBs), photospheric …

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 …

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 develo** which will unify the treatment of nuclear models …

Neutrinoless double-beta decay: a roadmap for matching theory to experiment

V Cirigliano, Z Davoudi, W Dekens, J de Vries… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The observation of neutrino oscillations and hence non-zero neutrino masses provided a
milestone in the search for physics beyond the Standard Model. But even though we now …

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 …