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 …

Information Content of the Parity-Violating Asymmetry in

PG Reinhard, X Roca-Maza, W Nazarewicz - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
The parity-violating asymmetry A PV in Pb 208, recently measured by the PREX-2
Collaboration, is studied using modern relativistic (covariant) and nonrelativistic energy …

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 …

Multi-reference many-body perturbation theory for nuclei: I. Novel PGCM-PT formalism

M Frosini, T Duguet, JP Ebran, V Somà - The European Physical Journal A, 2022 - Springer
Perturbative and non-perturbative expansion methods already constitute a tool of choice to
perform ab initio calculations over a significant part of the nuclear chart. In this context, the …

Nuclear moments of indium isotopes reveal abrupt change at magic number 82

AR Vernon, RF Garcia Ruiz, T Miyagi, CL Binnersley… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
In spite of the high-density and strongly correlated nature of the atomic nucleus,
experimental and theoretical evidence suggests that around particular 'magic'numbers of …

Model reduction methods for nuclear emulators

JA Melendez, C Drischler, RJ Furnstahl… - Journal of Physics G …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The field of model order reduction (MOR) is growing in importance due to its ability to extract
the key insights from complex simulations while discarding computationally burdensome …

Global description of decay with the axially deformed Skyrme finite-amplitude method: Extension to odd-mass and odd-odd nuclei

EM Ney, J Engel, T Li, N Schunck - Physical Review C, 2020 - APS
We use the finite-amplitude method (FAM), an efficient implementation of the quasiparticle
random phase approximation, to compute β-decay rates with Skyrme energy-density …

Training and projecting: A reduced basis method emulator for many-body physics

E Bonilla, P Giuliani, K Godbey, D Lee - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
We present the reduced basis method as a tool for develo** emulators for equations with
tunable parameters within the context of the nuclear many-body problem. The method uses …

Symmetry restoration in mean-field approaches

JA Sheikh, J Dobaczewski, P Ring… - Journal of Physics G …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The mean-field approximation based on effective interactions or density functionals plays a
pivotal role in the description of finite quantum many-body systems that are too large to be …