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We calculate the equation of state (EoS) of dense matter, using a relativistic mean field (RMF) model with a density dependent coupling that is a slightly modified form of the original NL3 interaction. For nonuniform nuclear matter we…

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We construct the equation of state (EOS) in a wide density range for neutron stars using the relativistic mean field theory. The properties of neutron star matter with both uniform and non-uniform distributions are studied consistently. The…

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The many ways in which machine and deep learning are transforming the analysis and simulation of data in particle physics are reviewed. The main methods based on boosted decision trees and various types of neural networks are introduced,…

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In this paper, we present an inference method for determining neutron star parameters and constraining the nuclear equation of state (EOS) using the RIFT parameter inference engine. We incorporate externally-produced prior information about…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-23 Askold Vilkha , Anjali Yelikar , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Jocelyn Read

We discuss the relativistic nuclear equation of state (EOS) using a relativistic transport model in heavy-ion collisions. From the baryon flow for $Au + Au$ systems at SIS to AGS energies and above we find that the strength of the vector…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 P. K. Sahu

The wide range of nuclear densities achieved in neutron stars makes them probes of dense nuclear behavior in the form of the nuclear equation of state (EoS). Studying neutron stars both in isolation, with X-ray measurements and pulse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-07 Atul Kedia , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Leslie Wade , Anjali Yelikar

Core-collapse simulations of massive stars are performed using the equation of state (EOS) based on the microscopic variational calculation with realistic nuclear forces. The progenitor models with the initial masses of $15M_\odot$,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Ken'ichiro Nakazato , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Hajime Togashi

Machine learning has played an important role in the analysis of high-energy physics data for decades. The emergence of deep learning in 2012 allowed for machine learning tools which could adeptly handle higher-dimensional and more complex…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2018-11-14 Dan Guest , Kyle Cranmer , Daniel Whiteson

We construct a new equation of state (EOS) for numerical simulations of core-collapse supernovae and neutron-star mergers based on an extended relativistic mean-field model with a small symmetry energy slope $L$, which is compatible with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-03-17 Hong Shen , Fan Ji , Jinniu Hu , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi

We perform statistically rigorous uncertainty quantification (UQ) for chiral effective field theory ($\chi$EFT) applied to infinite nuclear matter up to twice nuclear saturation density. The equation of state (EOS) is based on high-order…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-08 C. Drischler , J. A. Melendez , R. J. Furnstahl , D. R. Phillips

We construct the equation of state (EOS) of dense matter covering a wide range of temperature, proton fraction, and density for the use of core-collapse supernova simulations. The study is based on the relativistic mean-field (RMF) theory,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-03-26 H. Shen , H. Toki , K. Oyamatsu , K. Sumiyoshi

The symmetry energy contribution to the nuclear Equation of State (EoS) impacts various phenomena in nuclear astrophysics, nuclear structure, and nuclear reactions. Its determination is a key objective of contemporary nuclear physics with…

The equations of state (EoSs) governing neutron star (NS) matter obtained for both non-relativistic and relativistic mean-field models are systematically confronted with a diverse set of terrestrial data and astrophysical observations…

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Machine learning is employed to build an energy density functional for self-bound nuclear systems for the first time. By learning the kinetic energy as a functional of the nucleon density alone, a robust and accurate orbital-free density…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-21 X. H. Wu , Z. X. Ren , P. W. Zhao

Essentials of the scientific discovery process have remained largely unchanged for centuries: systematic human observation of natural phenomena is used to form hypotheses that, when validated through experimentation, are generalized into…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-06-21 Yi Zhang , A. Mesaros , K. Fujita , S. D. Edkins , M. H. Hamidian , K. Ch'ng , H. Eisaki , S. Uchida , J. C. Séamus Davis , E. Khatami , Eun-Ah Kim

The past years have witnessed tremendous progress in understanding the properties of neutron stars and of the dense matter in their cores, made possible by electromagnetic observations of neutron stars and the detection of gravitational…

Automated analyses of the outcome of a simulation have been an important part of atomistic modeling since the early days, addressing the need of linking the behavior of individual atoms and the collective properties that are usually the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Michele Ceriotti

Understanding the behavior of materials under irradiation is crucial for the design and safety of nuclear reactors, spacecraft, and other radiation environments. The threshold displacement energy (Ed) is a critical parameter for…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-05 Rosty B. Martinez Duque , Arman Duha , Mario F. Borunda

Scientific progress is tightly coupled to the emergence of new research tools. Today, machine learning (ML)-especially deep learning (DL)-has become a transformative instrument for quantum science and technology. Owing to the intrinsic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Timothy Heightman , Marcin Płodzień

Machine learning can uncover physical concepts or physical equations when prior knowledge from the other is available. However, these two aspects are often intertwined and cannot be discovered independently. We extend SciNet, which is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Bao-Bing Li , Yi Gu , Shao-Feng Wu