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We present global predictions of the ground state mass of atomic nuclei based on a novel Machine Learning (ML) algorithm. We combine precision nuclear experimental measurements together with theoretical predictions of unmeasured nuclei.…

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We present a systematic survey the range of predictions of the neutron star inner crust composition, crust-core transition densities and pressures, and density range of the nuclear `pasta' phases at the bottom of the crust provided by the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 W. G. Newton , M. Gearheart , Bao-An Li

In this proceeding, we have presented some highlight results on the constraints of the nuclear matter equation of state (EOS) from the data of nucleus resonance and neutron-skin thickness using the Bayesian approach based on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-05-08 Jun Xu

Bayesian methods have been very successful in quantifying uncertainty in physics-based problems in parameter estimation and prediction. In these cases, physical measurements y are modeled as the best fit of a physics-based model…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-02-06 Dave Higdon , Jordan D. McDonnell , Nicolas Schunck , Jason Sarich , Stefan M. Wild

Nuclear masses are predicted with the Bayesian neural networks by learning the mass surface of even-even nuclei and the correlation energies to their neighbouring nuclei. By keeping the known physics in various sophisticated mass models and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-08-10 Z. M. Niu , H. Z. Liang

The differences of the masses of nuclear isotopes with atomic numbers between \~10 and ~30 can be described within the chiral soliton approach in satisfactory agreement with data. Rescaling of the model is necessary for this purpose -…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 V. B. Kopeliovich , A. M. Shunderuk , G. K. Matushko

We present an inference of the nuclear symmetry energy magnitude $J$, the slope $L$ and the curvature $K_{\rm sym}$ by combining neutron skin data on Ca, Pb and Sn isotopes and our best theoretical information about pure neutron matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 William G. Newton , Gabriel Crocombe

A Bayesian method is used in this extensive work to generate a large set of minimally constrained equations of state (EOSs) for matters in neutron stars (NS). These EOSs are analyzed for their correlations with key NS properties, such as…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-29 N. K. Patra

Potential energy surfaces of even-even superheavy nuclei are evaluated within the macroscopic-microscopic approximation. A very rapidly converging analytical Fourier-type shape parametrization is used to describe nuclear shapes throughout…

Bayesian model mixing (BMM) is a statistical technique that can combine constraints from different regions of an input space in a principled way. Here we extend our BMM framework for the equation of state (EOS) of strongly interacting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 A. C. Semposki , C. Drischler , R. J. Furnstahl , D. R. Phillips

The information-geometric statistical analysis on the stability of model reductions, reported previously [Imbri\v{s}ak and Nomura, Phys. Rev. C 107, 034304 (2023)] with a focus on the manifold boundary approximation method in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-31 M. Imbrišak , K. Nomura

This article studies Bayesian model averaging (BMA) in the context of competing expensive computer models in a typical nuclear physics setup. While it is well known that BMA accounts for the additional uncertainty of the model itself, we…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-08-26 Vojtech Kejzlar , Léo Neufcourt , Taps Maiti , Frederi Viens

The chi-squared based covariance approach allows one to estimate the correlations among desired observables related to nuclear matter directly from a set of fit data without taking recourse to the distributions of the nuclear matter…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-11-11 Tuhin Malik , B. K. Agrawal , Constança Providência , J. N. De

Through ensemble learning with multitasking and complex connection neural networks, we aggregated nuclear properties, including ground state charge radii, binding energies, and single-particle state information obtained from the Kohn-Sham…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-10-18 Zu-Xing Yang , Xiao-Hua Fan , Zhi-Pan Li , Haozhao Liang

Cosmological parameter uncertainties are often stated assuming a particular model, neglecting the model uncertainty, even when Bayesian model selection is unable to identify a conclusive best model. Bayesian model averaging is a method for…

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This study is devoted to the inference problem of extracting the nuclear matter properties directly from a set of mass-radius observations. We employ Bayesian neural networks (BNNs), which is a probabilistic model capable of estimating the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-09-27 Valéria Carvalho , Márcio Ferreira , Constança Providência

Nuclear liquid drop model is revisited and an explicit introduction of the surface-curvature terms is presented. The corresponding parameters of the extended classical energy formula are adjusted to the contemporarily known nuclear binding…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 K. Pomorski , J. Dudek

Using an explicitly isospin-dependent parametric Equation of State (EOS) for the core of neutron stars (NSs) within the Bayesian statistical approach, we infer the EOS parameters of super-dense neutron-rich nuclear matter from three sets of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-07 Wen-Jie Xie , Bao-An Li

Extensive calculations of properties of supernova matter are presented, using the extended Nuclear Statistical Equilibrium model of PRC92 055803 (2015) based on a statistical distribution of Wigner-Seitz cells modeled using realistic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-03-04 Ad. R. Raduta , F. Gulminelli