The FRIB-TA Topical Program: Statistical Nuclear Properties in the AI/ML Era: Advances, Challenges, and Synergies for FRIB Science will be held at the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) in rooms 1221 A & B on the campus of Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing, MI USA.
The statistical treatment of nuclear reactions has been successfully employed to describe nuclear data for several decades. It is based on the probabilistic concept of competition among reaction channels, and Bohr’s independence hypothesis that allows the treatment of nuclear reactions in two separate steps; the first one of an absorption/compound nucleus formation and the second one of the decay of the compound system with the subsequent emission of gamma rays or particles. The machinery developed over the years to adopt this theory to reproduce known data has been quite successful in describing the energy-averaged behavior of nuclear systems. The two key components of a successful statistical model calculation of a nuclear reaction cross section are the accurate reproduction of the average transition probability for a given channel (e.g., for gamma-ray emission) and the accurate calculation of the average number of configurations of the relevant compound system that are accessible through the transitions at each reaction step. The term Statistical Nuclear Properties, as used in this proposal, refers to those quantities that provide the connection in the nuclear system between the statistical physics picture (entropy, configurations, probability, averaging), and the nuclear physics picture (transition strengths, nuclear system excitations, emission spectra, reaction yields). A key challenge of a statistical model is that while any average behavior provided by a statistical treatment can be exquisitely precise, in the absence of appropriate (nuclear) physics constraints, it can be very inaccurate.
The Topical Program is organized by the FRIB Theory Alliance and is made possible thanks to support by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under the FRIB Theory Alliance award DE-SC0013617. For selected participants we hope to provide partial support which may include lodging and some meals. After registration has closed you will be contacted with the support we are able to provide. We will not provide support for transportation expenses.
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