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Princeton-led team develops AI for fusion plasma monitoring
A new AI software tool for monitoring and controlling the plasma inside nuclear fuel systems has been developed by an international collaboration of scientists from Princeton University, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Chung-Ang University, Columbia University, and Seoul National University. The software, which the researchers call Diag2Diag, is described in the paper, “Multimodal super-resolution: discovering hidden physics and its application to fusion plasmas,” published in Nature Communications.
G. Haouat, J. Lachkar, J. Sigaud, Y. Patin, F. Coçu
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 65 | Number 2 | February 1978 | Pages 331-346
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE78-A27161
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Measurements of differential cross sections for fast neutrons scattered by carbon are presented for 14 incident neutron energies between 8.0 and 14.5 MeV. The measurements were performed with the four-detector neutron time-of-flight facility of the Centre d'Etudes de Bruyères-le-Châtel tandem Van de Graaff accelerator. The angular distributions for elastic and inelastic scattering to the first excited level of 12C were obtained over the angular range from 10 to 160 deg. The experimental uncertainties vary from 7 to 15% for the differential elastic scattering cross sections and from 8 to 22% for the differential inelastic scattering cross sections. These measurements partially fill in an energy range that was previously characterized by a lack of data. The angle-integrated cross sections are compared to the evaluated values of ENDF/B, and significant discrepancies are shown. The present data were included in an evaluation work on carbon carried out in this laboratory. The consistency of total cross-section measurements with our data and other partial cross sections is discussed.
