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Improve algorithm for criticality search #1656

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Our search_for_keff Python function currently uses optimization functions from SciPy that do not take into account the uncertainty in keff estimates. A few papers in the literature have proposed methods for doing a criticality search while accounting for an uncertain estimate in keff. A few references:

There are also a few more sophisticated methods, but these may not be as generalizable:

There are likely other methods from the larger field of stochastic approximation that may be relevant.

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