Particle accelerators get an assist from AI co-pilots

Physicists often use machine learning to automate the task of tuning particle accelerators in real time to get the best performance. Jan Kaiser at the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) in Hamburg and his collaborators have now shown¹ how to do this with a particular type of machine learning — using the large language models (LLMs) that underlie popular chatbots.

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-00005-6

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