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We study the QCD sources of systematic uncertainties in the experimental extraction of the W cross section at hadron colliders. The uncertainties appear in the evaluation of the detector acceptances used to convert the number of observed…
The propagation of uncertainties in reaction cross sections and rates of neutron-, proton-, and alpha-induced reactions into the final isotopic abundances obtained in nucleosynthesis models is an important issue in studies of…
The issue of how epistemic uncertainties affect the outcome of Monte Carlo simulation is discussed by means of a concrete use case: the simulation of the longitudinal energy deposition profile of low energy protons. A variety of…
Irradiation of materials in nuclear test reactors and power plants is known to alter the properties of the material. The irradiation event happening at pico- or nanosecond time scales are affecting the evolution and properties of the…
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To achieve its design goals, the next generation of neutrino-oscillation accelerator experiments requires percent-level predictions of neutrino-nucleus cross sections supplemented by robust estimates of the theoretical uncertainties…
With the increasing precision requirements and growing spectrum of applications of Monte Carlo simulations the evaluation of different components of such simulations and their systematic ambiguities become of utmost interest. In the…
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