Learning Nuclear Structure with AI: Radii and Collectivity
Low-energy nuclear structure is encoded in a broad body of experimental information across the chart of nuclides.
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| Factor | Weight | Score | Contribution | Where it came from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corroboration | 0.35 | 0.39 | +0.135 34% | 1 independent org on the story. Tier-3 aggregators never corroborate — they can show something is circulating, never that it is true. |
| Source trustleads | 0.25 | 0.85 | +0.212 53% | arXiv is the highest-trust source on this story and is first-party — the organisation announcing its own news. Trust is taken from the best source, not averaged. |
| Pickup rate | 0.20 | 0.00 | +0.000 0% | One counted organisation, so there is no spread to measure — nothing has picked this up to set a rate. |
| Freshness | 0.20 | 0.27 | +0.054 14% | Halves every 10 hours from the newest item on the story. This is the only factor that rewards a story for nothing more than being recent. |
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What happened
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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