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Neutron stars (NSs) probe the high-density regime of the nuclear equation of state (EOS). However, inferring the EOS from observations of NSs is a computationally challenging task. In this work, we efficiently solve this inverse problem by…

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The kinematic lower bound for the single scattering of neutrons produced in DT fusion reactions produces a backscatter edge in the measured neutron spectrum. The energy spectrum of backscattered neutrons is dependent on the scattering ion…

Potential applications of neutrino detection to nuclear security have been discussed since the 1970s. Recent years have seen great progress in detector technologies based on inverse beta decay, with the demonstration of ton-scale…

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Spatio-temporal biochemical signaling in a large class of protein-protein interaction networks is well modeled by a reaction-diffusion system. The global existence of the solution to the reaction-diffusion system is determined by the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-09 Insoon Yang , Claire J. Tomlin

Based on the equivalence of A-stability and G-stability, the energy technique of the six-step BDF method for the heat equation has been discussed in [Akrivis, Chen, Yu, Zhou, Math. Comp., Revised]. Unfortunately, this theory is hard to…

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In astrophysics, solving complex chemical reaction networks is essential but computationally demanding due to the high dimensionality and stiffness of the ODE systems. Traditional approaches for reducing computational load are often…

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A mayor problem that arises in the computation of stellar atmosphere models is the self consistent determination of the temperature distribution via the constraint of energy conservation. The energy balance includes the gains due to the…

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The efficiency of path sampling simulations can be improved considerably using the approach of path swapping. For this purpose, we have devised a new algorithmic procedure based on the transition interface sampling technique. In the same…

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A new screening model for astrophysical thermonuclear reactions was derived recently which improved Salpeter's weak-screening one. In the present work we prove that the new model can also give very reliable screening enhancement factors…

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This article presents a physics-informed deep learning method for the quantitative estimation of the spatial coordinates of gamma interactions within a monolithic scintillator, with a focus on Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging. A…

In this paper, we present the first study that compares different models of Bayesian Neural Networks (BNNs) to predict the posterior distribution of the cosmological parameters directly from the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and…

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Operators experience complicated physiological and psychological states when exposed to extreme heat stress, which can impair cognitive function and decrease performance significantly, ultimately leading to severe secondary disasters.…

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Interpreting the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of astrophysical objects with physically motivated models is computationally expensive. These models require solving coupled differential equations in high-dimensional parameter spaces,…

In nuclear reactors, Delayed Neutron Precursors (DNPs) are important for reactor safety and operation. In liquid nuclear fuels, DNPs are transported by the flow, and an advection-reaction balance equation for their concentration must be…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Mathis Caprais , André Bergeron , Nathan Greiner , Daniele Tomatis

Data compression techniques focused on information preservation have become essential in the modern era of big data. In this work, an encoder-decoder architecture has been designed, where adversarial training, a modification of the…

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In this work, a new numerical method for the transport of Delayed Neutron Precursors (DNPs) is applied to the Aircraft Reactor Experiment (ARE). The pathline method is based on the Method of Characteristics (MOC) and leverages the pathlines…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Mathis Caprais , Nathan Greiner , André Bergeron

We describe a method to obtain point and dispersion estimates for the energies of jets arising from b quarks produced in proton-proton collisions at an energy of $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV at the CERN LHC. The algorithm is trained on a large…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2020-11-09 CMS Collaboration

The accuracy of solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on coarse grids is greatly affected by the choice of discretization schemes. In this work, we propose to learn time integration schemes based on neural networks which satisfy…

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Recent developments of the Cascade-Exciton Model (CEM) of nuclear reactions are described. The improved cascade-exciton model as implemented in the code CEM97 differs from the CEM95 version by incorporating new approximations for the…

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