arXiv:2606. 04033v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The validation of advanced nuclear reactor designs and fuel concepts requires critical experiments with high neutronic similarity to the target technology.
By Will Savage, Logan Burnett, Dean Price
arXiv:2607. 04450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Integral codes like the Accident Source Term Evaluation Code (ASTEC) are powerful tools to study the physics of Severe Accidents (SAs) in nuclear reactors.
By Alessandro Longhi, Danny Lathouwers, Zolt\'an Perk\'o
The paper introduces JI-PINN, a joint initialization strategy for physics-informed neural networks that simultaneously initializes neutron flux and the effective multiplication factor (keff) using a low-resolution approximate solution. By jointly optimizing both quantities under physical constraints, the method achieves significant reductions in computational time—up to nearly 50%—across various benchmark neutron diffusion problems while maintaining accuracy. It also reduces anomalous keff deviations, offering a more robust approach to solving K‑eigenvalue problems with PINNs.
By Qin Hang, Yangdi Yi, Jiayi Li, Xu Wang, Heng Zhang
Efficient determination of the effective multiplication factor (keff) is an important computational task in reactor core neutronics analysis. Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) incorporate neutr...
The paper explores global sensitivity analysis (GSA) when both physics-based models and experimental data are available, focusing on physics-informed machine learning to improve sensitivity estimates. It evaluates two ML approaches—deep neural networks (DNN) and Gaussian processes (GP)—and two physics integration strategies: physics-constrained loss functions and sequential pre‑training with simulation followed by experimental fine‑tuning. Four models per ML type are constructed, incorporating model uncertainties into Sobol index calculations, and results show DNNs yield tighter sensitivity bounds than GP models, demonstrated on additive manufacturing and lake temperature examples.
By Berkcan Kapusuzoglu, Sankaran Mahadevan
arXiv:2512. 24116v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) play a central role in describing experimental data at colliders and provide insight into the structure of nucleons.
By Amedeo Chiefa, Luigi Del Debbio, Richard Kenway