Preliminary results in using Deep Learning to emulate BLOB, a nuclear interaction model.

Journal: Physica medica : PM : an international journal devoted to the applications of physics to medicine and biology : official journal of the Italian Association of Biomedical Physics (AIFB)
PMID: 32330813

Abstract

PURPOSE: A reliable model to simulate nuclear interactions is fundamental for Ion-therapy. We already showed how BLOB ("Boltzmann-Langevin One Body"), a model developed to simulate heavy ion interactions up to few hundreds of MeV/u, could simulate also C reactions in the same energy domain. However, its computation time is too long for any medical application. For this reason we present the possibility of emulating it with a Deep Learning algorithm.

Authors

  • A Ciardiello
    Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale A. Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy; "Sapienza", University of Rome, Department of Physics, Piazzale A. Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy.
  • M Asai
    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, United States.
  • B Caccia
    National Center for Radiation Protection and Computational Physics, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Italy.
  • G A P Cirrone
    INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy.
  • M Colonna
    INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy.
  • A Dotti
    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, United States.
  • R Faccini
    Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale A. Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy; "Sapienza", University of Rome, Department of Physics, Piazzale A. Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy.
  • S Giagu
    Dip. Fisica, Sapienza Univ. di Roma, Rome, Italy; INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy.
  • A Messina
    Dip. Fisica, Sapienza Univ. di Roma, Rome, Italy; INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy.
  • P Napolitani
    Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, 91405 Orsay, France.
  • L Pandola
    INFN, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Catania, Italy.
  • D H Wright
    SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, United States.
  • C Mancini-Terracciano
    Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Roma, Piazzale A. Moro 2, 00185, Rome, Italy.

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