Publications related to Processus aléatoires dans un réacteur nucléaire contrôlé par un dispositif de réglage

Neutron-Gamma Noise Measurements in a Zero-Power Reactor Using Organic Scintillators

Andreas Pautz, Oskari Ville Pakari, Vincent Pierre Lamirand

Noise measurements in light water reactor systems aid in generating validation data for integral point kinetic parameter predictions and generating monitoring parameters for reactor safety and safeguards. The CROCUS zero-power reactor has been used to supp ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Disentangling 1/f noise from confined ion dynamics

Théo Denis Tobias Emmerich

Ion transport through biological and solid-state nanochannels is known to be a highly noisy process. The power spectrum of current fluctuations is empirically known to scale like the inverse of frequency, following the long-standing yet poorly understood H ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Functional data analysis with rough sample paths?

Victor Panaretos, Neda Mohammadi Jouzdani

Functional data are typically modeled as sample paths of smooth stochastic processes in order to mitigate the fact that they are often observed discretely and noisily, occasionally irregularly and sparsely. The smoothness assumption is imposed to allow for ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2024

Optimal digital filter selection for remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) signal conditioning

Ata Jedari Golparvar

Remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) using camera-based imaging has shown excellent potential recently in vital signs monitoring due to its contactless nature. However, the optimum filter selection for pre-processing rPPG data in signal conditioning is still ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Millimeter-wave to near-terahertz sensors based on reversible insulator-to-metal transition in VO2

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Teodor Rosca, Fatemeh Qaderi Rahaqi

In the quest for low power bio-inspired spiking sensors, functional oxides like vanadium dioxide are expected to enable future energy efficient sensing. Here, we report uncooled millimeter-wave spiking detectors based on the sensitivity of insulator-to-met ...

SPRINGERNATURE2023

Universal and adaptive methods for robust stochastic optimization

Ali Kavis

Within the context of contemporary machine learning problems, efficiency of optimization process depends on the properties of the model and the nature of the data available, which poses a significant problem as the complexity of either increases ad infinit ...

EPFL2023

Multi-agent Learning with Privacy Guarantees

Elsa Rizk

A multi-agent system consists of a collection of decision-making or learning agents subjected to streaming observations from some real-world phenomenon. The goal of the system is to solve some global learning or optimization problem in a distributed or dec ...

EPFL2023

High accuracy measurement of the prompt neutron decay constant in CROCUS using Gamma Noise and bootstrapped uncertainties

Pavel Frajtag, Andreas Pautz, Oskari Ville Pakari, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Tom Mager

We experimentally demonstrate the advantages of gamma detection for noise measurements to deter-mine the prompt neutron decay constant a of a nuclear reactor using the power spectral density (PSD) method, coupled to a new uncertainty estimation scheme base ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

An Efficient Signal-to-noise Approximation for Eccentric Inspiraling Binaries

Alexandra Shelest

Eccentricity has emerged as a potentially useful tool for helping to identify the origin of black hole mergers. However, eccentric templates can be computationally very expensive owing to the large number of harmonics, making statistical analyses to distin ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Miniature and Minimalistic Neutron Detectors for Online High-Resolution Experiments in the Zero-Power Reactor CROCUS

Fanny Vitullo

The continuous strive for more efficient and reliable nuclear power plants is leading to increasing complexity in the design and operations of reactors. As a consequence, comprehensive analyses are required to assess the reactor's safety during normal and ...

EPFL2022

Characterization of High Harmonic Frequencies in Reactor Noise Experiments Within the CORTEX Project

Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand

We present a novel technique of neutron noise detection and experimental data interpretation developed during the EU H2020 project CORTEX aiming to improve the capabilities for identification and localization of neutron noise sources. The experimental data ...

2022

A Cryo-CMOS Oscillator With an Automatic Common-Mode Resonance Calibration for Quantum Computing Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Fabio Sebastiano, Yue Chen

This article presents a 4-to-5 GHz LC oscillator operating at 4.2K for quantum computing applications. The phase noise (PN) specification of the oscillator is derived based on the control fidelity for a single-qubit operation. To reveal the substantial gap ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

A Delta Sigma-Modulated Sample and Average Common-Mode Feedback Technique for Capacitively Coupled Amplifiers in a 192-nW Acoustic Analog Front-End

Kyojin Choo

This work presents an acoustic analog front-end based on a delta sigma-modulated sample and average common-mode feedback technique. The proposed feedback offers a process and temperature stable high pass (HP) frequency corner, unity dc feedback gain, and a ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Impulsive noise removal via a blind CNN enhanced by an iterative post-processing

Hatef Otroshi Shahreza, Seyedeh Sahar Sadrizadeh

In digital imaging, especially in the process of data acquisition and transmission, images are often affected by impulsive noise. Therefore, it is essential to remove impulsive noise from images before any further processing. Due to the remarkable performa ...

ELSEVIER2022

Sensitivity, Noise and Resolution in a B -Modified Foundry-Made ISFET with Miniaturized Reference Electrode for Wearable Point-of-Care Applications

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Luca Selmi, Junrui Zhang, Francesco Bellando, Pierpaolo Palestri

Ion-sensitive field-effect transistors (ISFETs) form a high sensitivity and scalable class of sensors, compatible with advanced complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processes. Despite many previous demonstrations about their merits as low-power i ...

2021

Analysis of the first COLIBRI fuel rods oscillation campaign in the CROCUS reactor for the European project CORTEX

Daniel Godat, Pavel Frajtag, Andreas Pautz, Adolfo Rais, Oskari Ville Pakari, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, Carlo Fiorina, Axel Guy Marie Laureau

The Horizon2020 European project CORTEX aims at developing an innovative core monitoring technique that allows detecting anomalies in nuclear reactors, such as excessive vibrations of core internals, flow blockage, or coolant inlet perturbations. The techn ...

2021

Transverse Noise, Decoherence, and Landau Damping in High-Energy Hadron Colliders

Sondre Vik Furuseth

High-energy hadron colliders are designed to generate particle collisions within specialized detectors. A higher number of collisions is achieved with high-quality beams of low transverse emittances, meaning a small transverse cross-section, and high inten ...

EPFL2021

SiML: Sieved Maximum Likelihood for Array Signal Processing

Paul Hurley, Matthieu Martin Jean-André Simeoni

Stochastic Maximum Likelihood (SML) is a popular direction of arrival (DOA) estimation technique in array signal processing. It is a parametric method that jointly estimates signal and instrument noise by maximum likelihood, achieving excellent statistical ...

2021

Supersymmetries in nonequilibrium Langevin dynamics

Elisabeth Agoritsas

Stochastic phenomena are often described by Langevin equations, which serve as a mesoscopic model for microscopic dynamics. It has been known since the work of Parisi and Sourlas that reversible (or equilibrium) dynamics present supersymmetries (SUSYs). Th ...

2021

Towards the Validation of Noise Experiments in the CROCUS Reactor Using the TRIPOLI-4 Monte Carlo Code in Analog Mode

Andreas Pautz, Oskari Ville Pakari, Vincent Pierre Lamirand

Intrinsic neutron noise experiments offer a non-invasive manner to measure the prompt decay constant or reactivity of fissile systems. Using the fluctuations in the density of fission chains, one can infer the kinetics parameters via correlation analysis s ...

2021