Teaching AI to operate particle accelerators with DOE grant
Teaching AI to operate particle accelerators with DOE grant
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/04/teaching-ai-operate-particle-accelerators-doe-grant
Publish Date: 2026-04-22 13:22:00
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- Georg Hoffstaetter de Torquat, a physics professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, is heading a $2.9 million project funded by the Department of Energy to integrate AI into the operation of particle accelerators.
- The project will focus on training AI systems on computer models of BNL’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and its planned successor, the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC).
- AI systems will take on real-time, active roles in running experiments instead of just analyzing post-experiment data.
- This venture aims to enable AI to operate complex scientific instruments like particle accelerators autonomously in the future.
- Hoffstaetter envisions a future where AI may not only assist in operations but could also test its own physics theories.
