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 …

Bayesian approach to heterogeneous data fusion of imperfect fission yields for augmented evaluations

ZA Wang, JC Pei, YJ Chen, CY Qiao, FR Xu, ZG Ge… - Physical Review C, 2022 - APS
We demonstrate that Bayesian machine learning can be used to treat the vast amount of
experimental fission data which are noisy, incomplete, discrepant, and correlated. To supply …

Optimizing multilayer Bayesian neural networks for evaluation of fission yields

ZA Wang, J Pei - Physical Review C, 2021 - APS
Bayesian machine learning is a promising tool for the evaluation of nuclear fission data but
its potential capability has not been fully realized. We attempt to optimize the performances …

Machine learning-based analyses for total ionizing dose effects in bipolar junction transistors

BC Wang, MT Qiu, W Chen, CH Wang… - Nuclear Science and …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Machine learning methods have proven to be powerful in various research fields. In
this paper, we show that research on radiation effects could benefit from such methods and …

Expert‐in‐the‐loop design of integral nuclear data experiments

I Michaud, M Grosskopf, J Hutchinson… - … Analysis and Data …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Nuclear data are fundamental inputs to radiation transport codes used for reactor design
and criticality safety. The design of experiments to reduce nuclear data uncertainty has been …

Collective enhancement in the exciton model

MR Mumpower, D Neudecker, H Sasaki, T Kawano… - Physical Review C, 2023 - APS
The preequilibrium reaction mechanism is considered in the context of the exciton model. A
modification to the one-particle–one-hole state density is studied which can be interpreted …

EXFOR-based simultaneous evaluation of neutron-induced uranium and plutonium fission cross sections for JENDL-5

N Otuka, O Iwamoto - Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The neutron-induced fission cross sections were simultaneously evaluated for the JENDL-5
library for 233,235 U and 239,241 Pu from 10 keV to 200 MeV and for 238U and 240Pu from …

Modeling heavy-ion fusion cross section data via a novel artificial intelligence approach

D Dell'Aquila, B Gnoffo, I Lombardo… - Journal of Physics G …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We perform a comprehensive analysis of complete fusion cross section data with the aim to
derive, in a completely data-driven way, a model suitable to predict the integrated cross …

Artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in the Spanish nuclear field

A Ramos, A Carrasco, J Fontanet, LE Herranz… - … Engineering and Design, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques are increasingly applied in
the nuclear field. In this way, Spanish companies and research institutions have been …

Criticality experiments to reduce compensating errors in plutonium nuclear data

J Hutchinson, J Alwin, B Bell, A Clark, T Cutler… - 2023 - osti.gov
Compensating errors between nuclear data observables in a library can adversely impact
application simulations. The primary goal of the EUCLID project (Experiments Underpinned …