A recipe for EFT uncertainty quantification in nuclear physics
Nuclear Theory
2016-05-13 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Abstract
The application of effective field theory (EFT) methods to nuclear systems provides the opportunity to rigorously estimate the uncertainties originating in the nuclear Hamiltonian. Yet this is just one source of uncertainty in the observables predicted by calculations based on nuclear EFTs. We discuss the goals of uncertainty quantification in such calculations and outline a recipe to obtain statistically meaningful error bars for their predictions. We argue that the different sources of theory error can be accounted for within a Bayesian framework, as we illustrate using a toy model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1407.0657,
title = {A recipe for EFT uncertainty quantification in nuclear physics},
author = {R. J. Furnstahl and D. R. Phillips and S. Wesolowski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.0657},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Final version for JPhysG Focus issue "Enhancing the interaction between nuclear experiment and theory through information and statistics"