{"id":216623,"date":"2025-06-26T01:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/its-elementary-problem-solving-ai-approach-tackles-inverse-problems-used-in-nuclear-physics-and-beyond"},"modified":"2025-06-26T01:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T06:18:08","slug":"its-elementary-problem-solving-ai-approach-tackles-inverse-problems-used-in-nuclear-physics-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/its-elementary-problem-solving-ai-approach-tackles-inverse-problems-used-in-nuclear-physics-and-beyond","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s elementary: Problem-solving AI approach tackles inverse problems used in nuclear physics and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/its-elementary-problem-solving-ai-approach-tackles-inverse-problems-used-in-nuclear-physics-and-beyond2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Solving life\u2019s great mysteries often requires detective work, using observed outcomes to determine their cause. For instance, nuclear physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility analyze the aftermath of particle interactions to understand the structure of the atomic nucleus.<\/p>\n<p>This type of subatomic sleuthing is known as the inverse problem. It is the opposite of a forward problem, where causes are used to calculate the effects. Inverse problems arise in many descriptions of physical phenomena, and often their solution is limited by the experimental data available.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why scientists at Jefferson Lab and DOE\u2019s Argonne National Laboratory, as part of the QuantOm Collaboration, have led the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) technique that can reliably solve these types of puzzles on supercomputers at large scales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solving life\u2019s great mysteries often requires detective work, using observed outcomes to determine their cause. For instance, nuclear physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility analyze the aftermath of particle interactions to understand the structure of the atomic nucleus. This type of subatomic sleuthing is known as the inverse problem. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}