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Advancements of On-Line Monitoring and Real-Time Characterization of Actual Low-Level Hanford Tank-Waste Samples

Waste and process stream characterization is essential to the safe, efficient, and cost-effective processing of Hanford Site materials. The demand for materials characterization including chemical, radionuclide, and physical attributes during waste management, transfer, and staging operations in the Hanford tank farms is expected to significantly increase as the U.S. Department of Energy River Protection Project progresses toward Hanford waste treatment and immobilization. Our past work has applied Raman on-line monitoring and chemometric modeling to the supernate of Hanford tank 241-AP-105 and has demonstrated the quantitative measurement of nine analytes within this waste. To demonstrate broader applicability, this method has now been expanded to waste from two additional Hanford tanks, AW-102 and AP-107, and the offgas condensate from lab-scale melter runs of actual-tank waste feeds. To enhance the performance of the Raman method, instruments with various excitation wavelengths were compared, since it is known that the Raman response is enhanced by shorter wavelength excitation. The laser excitations for the three systems tested were 404 nm, 532 nm, and 671 nm. In addition to laser wavelength selection, the laser power, measurement integration times, and signal averaging techniques were also investigated to determine their effect on detection limits for oxy-anion analytes within tank wastes. These advancements in Raman capability are compared with past standards and will be presented.

Bryan, Samuel A.↗

Emerging Jets Search, Triton Server Deployment, and Track Quality Development: Machine Learning Applications in High Energy Physics

Machine learning is becoming prevalent in high energy physics, with numerous applications in physics analyses and event reconstruction showing great improvements compared to traditional computing methods. This thesis studies three projects which each propose new avenues for machine learning applications within the high energy physics CMS experiment located at CERN. In the first project, a search for a dark matter signal called “emerging jets” is performed, using graph neural networks to greatly increase sensitivity to the signal’s signature within the data. The result of this dark matter search sets the most stringent exclusion limits to date on theoretical emerging jet models. Motivated by inefficiencies encountered when processing the emerging jet graph neural network at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s computing centers, the second project re-optimizes the computing centers for machine learning inference. This re-optimization uses NVIDIA Triton Inference Servers to process users’ analysis code heterogeneously, therefore achieving high processing throughput and decreasing user time-to-insight. The last project focuses on an upgrade to the CMS experiment’s real-time event selection system which improves physics object reconstruction under harsh processing conditions. A boosted decision tree is used to quickly and efficiently quantify a reconstructed particle’s “track quality” in order to remove particle tracks reconstructed erroneously. In summary, this thesis will not only present examples of how high energy physics can greatly benefit by leveraging machine learning techniques for physics analysis and reconstruction, but will also provide guidance on how the field can prepare for the inevitable increase in machine learning applications.

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS↗

Fusion of Experiments and Simulations for Real-Time Identification of Pipeline Defects

In this study, we explored fusion of experiments and simulations for real time identification of pipeline defects across physical and non-physical domains. The challenges associated to data processing were addressed and a combined classification models was presented via CNN models. In addition, regression model based on XGBOOST is built to determine the defect location and defect dimension from data-driven features of guided wave signals captured by SMS fiber optic sensor.

deep learning↗