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We have performed for the first time a comprehensive study of the sensitivity of $r$-process nucleosynthesis to individual nuclear masses across the chart of nuclides. Using the latest version (2012) of the Finite-Range Droplet Model, we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-10-07 M. R. Mumpower , R. Surman , D. -L. Fang , M. Beard , P. Moller , T. Kawano , A. Aprahamian

Large-scale computations of fission properties are an important ingredient for nuclear reaction network calculations simulating rapid neutron-capture process (the r process) nucleosynthesis. Due to the large number of fissioning nuclei…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-04-04 Daniel Lay , Eric Flynn , Samuel A. Giuliani , Witold Nazarewicz , Leó Neufcourt

We report on the creation and application of a novel decay network that uses the latest data from experiment and evaluation. We use the network to simulate the late-time phase of the rapid neutron capture (r) process. In this epoch, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 T. M. Sprouse , G. Wendell Misch , M. R. Mumpower

One of the main challenges in modeling massive stars to the onset of core collapse is the computational bottleneck of nucleosynthesis during advanced burning stages. The number of isotopes formed requires solving a large set of…

Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) predictions of primordial light-element abundances offer a powerful probe of early-Universe physics. However, high-accuracy numerical BBN calculations have become a major computational bottleneck for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Fan Zhang , Hang Diao , Bohua Li , Joel Meyers , Paul R. Shapiro

Studies attempting to quantify the sensitivity of the $r$-process abundances to nuclear input have to cope with the fact that the theoretical models they rely on, rarely come with confidence intervals. This problem has been dealt with by…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-15 Francesco Pogliano , Ann-Cecilie Larsen

Radiative transfer calculations in weather and climate models are notoriously complex and computationally intensive, which poses significant challenges. Traditional methods, while accurate, can be prohibitively slow, necessitating the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Erick Fredj , Iggy Segev Gal , Noam Lavi , Shahar Belkar , Mark Wasserman , Ding Zhaohui , Yann Delorme

Simulations of r-process nucleosynthesis require nuclear physics information for thousands of neutron-rich nuclear species from the line of stability to the neutron drip line. While arguably the most important pieces of nuclear data for the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 R. Surman , M. Mumpower , G. C. McLaughlin , R. Sinclair , W. R. Hix , K. L. Jones

The rapid-neutron capture process ($r$ process) is identified as the producer of about 50\% of elements heavier than iron. This process requires an astrophysical environment with an extremely high neutron flux over a short amount of time…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-06-26 A. C. Larsen , A. Spyrou , S. N. Liddick , M. Guttormsen

We build and train the artificial neural network model (ANN) based on the experimental $\alpha$-decay energy ($Q_{\alpha}$) data. Besides decays between the ground states of parent and daughter nuclei, decays from the ground state of parent…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-04-12 Hong-Qiang You , Zheng-Zhe Qu , Ren-Hang Wu , Hao-Ze Su , Xiao-Tao He

Constraining the Epoch of Reionization (EoR) with physically motivated simulations is hampered by the high cost of conventional parameter inference. We present an efficient emulator-based framework that dramatically reduces this bottleneck…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-06 Saptarshi Sarkar , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury

We present a neural-network emulator for the thermal and chemical evolution in Population III star formation. The emulator accurately reproduces the thermochemical evolution over a wide density range spanning 21 orders of magnitude…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-18 Sojun Ono , Kazuyuki Sugimura

The increasing usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, especially Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), is increasing the power consumption during training and inference, posing environmental concerns and driving the need for more…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Gabriel Cortês , Nuno Lourenço , Penousal Machado

Emulator embedded neural networks, which are a type of physics informed neural network, leverage multi-fidelity data sources for efficient design exploration of aerospace engineering systems. Multiple realizations of the neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Atticus Beachy , Harok Bae , Jose Camberos , Ramana Grandhi

A nuclear reactor based on MIT BEAVRS benchmark was used as a typical power generating Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR). The PARCS v3.2 nodal-diffusion core simulator was used as a full-core reactor physics solver to emulate the operation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Krzysztof Palmi , Wojciech Kubinski , Piotr Darnowski

In the present paper a newer application of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) has been developed i.e., predicting response-function results of electrical-mechanical system through ANN. This method is specially useful to complex systems for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-11-09 R. C. Gupta , Ankur Agarwal , Ruchi Gupta , Sanjay Gupta

Here I introduce an automatic approach to determine the material flow patterns during deformation process using artificial neural networks (ANN). Since deriving and calibrating complex mathematical models for prediction of power…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-18 Hossein Goodarzi Hosseinabadi

Uncertainties in nuclear models have a major impact on simulations that aim at understanding the origin of heavy elements in the universe through the rapid neutron capture process ($r$ process) of nucleosynthesis. Within the framework of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 T. M. Sprouse , R. Navarro Perez , R. Surman , M. R. Mumpower , G. C. McLaughlin , N. Schunck

We study the sensitivity of the r-process abundance pattern to neutron capture rates along the rare earth region (A~150 to A~180). We introduce the concepts of large nuclear flow and flow saturation which determine the neutron capture rates…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 M. R. Mumpower , G. C. McLaughlin , R. A. Surman

Nuclear masses play a fundamental role in understanding how the heaviest elements in the Universe are created in the $r$-process. We predict $r$-process nucleosynthesis yields using neutron capture and photodissociation rates that are based…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-03-30 Dirk Martin , Almudena Arcones , Witold Nazarewicz , Erik Olsen
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