Learning Nuclear Structure with AI: Radii and Collectivity
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arXiv:2609.17838v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-energy nuclear structure is encoded in a broad body of experimental information across the chart of nuclides. Learning how this information is organized across observables and nuclei can provide a data-driven empirical baseline for theoretical extrapolations and experimental design. Here, we develop held-out ensembles based on NuCLR (Nuclear Co-Learned Representations), a multi-task model of nuclear data, to study charge radii and electric-quadrupole transition strengths. Out-of-fold (OOF) validation shows that shared representation improve
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.17838v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Low-energy nuclear structure is encoded in a broad body of experimental information across the chart of nuclides.
- Learning how this information is organized across observables and nuclei can provide a data-driven empirical baseline for theoretical extrapolations and experimental design.
- Here, we develop held-out ensembles based on NuCLR (Nuclear Co-Learned Representations), a multi-task model of nuclear data, to study charge radii and electric-quadrupole transition strengths.
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