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MACHINE LEARNING FOR INVERSE PROBLEMS IN HADRON STRUCTURE


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• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.

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The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
  

Reference

SL-DRF-24-0306  

Direction

DRF

Thesis topic details

Category

Theoretical physics

Thesis topics

MACHINE LEARNING FOR INVERSE PROBLEMS IN HADRON STRUCTURE

Contract

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Job description

Characterizing the multidimensional structure of hadrons in terms of quarks and gluons is one of the major objectives of hadronic physics today. This is not only the central theme of many experimental facilities worldwide, but also one of the main reasons for the construction of future colliders in the USA and China. It is also one of the key areas of research for intensive numerical simulations of the strong interaction. However, in both cases, the connection between measured and simulated data on the one hand, and the multidimensional structure of hadrons on the other, is not direct. The data are linked to the hadron structure via mathematically ill-posed multidimensional inverse problems. It has been shown that these inverse problems lead to a significant increase in uncertainties, to the point of becoming the dominant source of uncertainty in some cases. The aim of this thesis is to use machine learning tools to assess, reduce and correctly propagate uncertainties from experimental or simulation data to the multidimensional structure of hadrons. The strategy for achieving this is to develop an original neural network architecture capable of taking into account the full range of theoretical properties arising from quantum chromodynamics, and then to adapt it to inverse problems linking experimental and simulation data to the 3D structure of hadrons.

University / doctoral school

PHENIICS (PHENIICS)
Paris-Saclay

Thesis topic location

Site

Saclay

Requester

Position start date

01/10/2024

Person to be contacted by the applicant

Bertone Valerio valerio.bertone@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRFU/DPhN/LSN
CEA Saclay - IRFU/DPhN
Bat. 703
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette

Tutor / Responsible thesis director

Moutarde Hervé herve.moutarde@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRFU/DPhN
IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
33 1 69 08 32 06

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