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Chiral effective field theory (EFT) predictions are necessarily truncated at some order in the EFT expansion, which induces an error that must be quantified for robust statistical comparisons to experiment. In previous work, a Bayesian…

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Effective field theories (EFTs) organize the description of complex systems into an infinite sequence of decreasing importance. Predictions are made with a finite number of terms, which induces a truncation error that is often left…

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Bayesian procedures designed to quantify truncation errors in perturbative calculations of quantum chromodynamics observables are adapted to expansions in effective field theory (EFT). In the Bayesian approach, such truncation errors are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-12 R. J. Furnstahl , N. Klco , D. R. Phillips , S. Wesolowski

We sample the posterior probability distributions of the low-energy constants (LECs) in $\Delta$-full chiral effective field theory ($\chi$EFT) up to third order. We use eigenvector continuation for fast and accurate emulation of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-07-29 Isak Svensson , Andreas Ekström , Christian Forssén

Effective Field Theory (EFT) is a general framework to parametrize the low-energy approximation to a UV model that is widely used in model-independent searches for new physics. The use of EFTs at the LHC can suffer from a 'validity' issue,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Spencer Chang , Markus A. Luty , Teng Ma , Francesco Montagno , Andrea Wulzer

We recently developed an Effective Field Theory (EFT) for rotational bands in odd-mass nuclei. Here we use EFT expressions to perform a Bayesian analysis of data on the rotational energy levels of $^{99}$Tc, ${}^{155,157}$Gd, ${}^{159}$Dy,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-07 I. K. Alnamlah , E. A. Coello Pérez , D. R. Phillips

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-13 R. J. Furnstahl , D. R. Phillips , S. Wesolowski

We perform Bayesian model calibration of two-nucleon ($NN$) low-energy constants (LECs) appearing in an $NN$ interaction based on pionless effective field theory (EFT). The calibration is carried out for potentials constructed using naive…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-06 J. M. Bub , M. Piarulli , R. J. Furnstahl , S. Pastore , D. R. Phillips

We present procedures based on Bayesian statistics for estimating, from data, the parameters of effective field theories (EFTs). The extraction of low-energy constants (LECs) is guided by theoretical expectations in a quantifiable way…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-06-22 S. Wesolowski , N. Klco , R. J. Furnstahl , D. R. Phillips , A. Thapaliya

We test the BUQEYE model of correlated effective field theory (EFT) truncation errors on Reinert, Krebs, and Epelbaum's semi-local momentum-space implementation of the chiral EFT ($\chi$EFT) expansion of the nucleon-nucleon (NN) potential.…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-02-21 P. J. Millican , R. J. Furnstahl , J. A. Melendez , D. R. Phillips , M. T. Pratola

Truncations of effective field theory expansions are technically necessary but inherently intertwined with the redundancies of general field redefinitions. This can be viewed as a juxtaposition of power-counting and theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-30 Rodrigo Alonso , Christoph Englert , Wrishik Naskar , Shakeel Ur Rahaman

We investigate the possibility of constraining parameters of Effective Field Theory (EFT) of inflation with upcoming Large Scale Structure (LSS) surveys in order to have a better understanding of inflationary dynamics. With the development…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-23 Abhishek Naskar , Sayantan Choudhury , Argha Banerjee , Supratik Pal

Low-resolution nuclear Hamiltonians, obtained from chiral effective field theory (EFT) and softened using renormalization group techniques, have been very successful in nuclear structure theory. The associated EFT truncation uncertainty for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-09-30 Tom Plies , Matthias Heinz , Achim Schwenk

The BUQEYE model for correlated effective field theory (EFT) truncation errors assumes a regular pattern of dimensionless coefficients extracted from order-by-order observable calculations. This enables results from lower orders to inform…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 P. J. Millican , R. J. Furnstahl , J. A. Melendez , D. R. Phillips

A method to quantitatively assess the consistency of power-counting proposals in Effective Field Theories (EFT) which are non-perturbative at leading order is presented. The Renormalisation Group evolution of an observable predicts the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Harald W. Griesshammer

Effective field theories (EFT) parameterize the long-distance effects of short-distance dynamics whose details may or may not be known. It is known that EFT coefficients must obey certain positivity constraints if causality and unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-16 Simon Caron-Huot , Vincent Van Duong

Predictive power in theoretical nuclear physics has been a major concern in the study of nuclear structure and reactions. The Effective Field Theory (EFT) based on chiral expansions provides a model independent hierarchy for many body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 E. Ruiz Arriola , J. E. Amaro , R. Navarro Perez

We have quantified the statistical uncertainties of the low-energy coupling-constants (LECs) of an optimized nucleon-nucleon (NN) interaction from chiral effective field theory ($\chi$EFT) at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). In…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-10 A. Ekström , B. D. Carlsson , K. A. Wendt , C. Forssén , M. Hjorth-Jensen , R. Machleidt , S. M. Wild

Effective Field Theory (EFT) extensions of the Standard Model are tools to compute observables $\big(e.g.$ cross sections with partonic center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{\hat{s}}\,\big)$ as a systematically improvable expansion suppressed by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-07 Timothy Cohen , Joel Doss , Xiaochuan Lu

The consistency relations in large scale structure relate the lower-order correlation functions with their higher-order counterparts. They are direct outcome of the underlying symmetries of a dynamical system and can be tested using data…

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