Bayesian estimation of the low-energy constants up to fourth order in the nucleon-nucleon sector of chiral effective field theory
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| contents | We use Bayesian methods and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) sampling to infer the posterior probability density function (PDF) for the low-energy constants (LECs) up to next-to-next-to-next- to-leading order (N3LO) in a chiral effective field theory ($χ$EFT) description of the nucleon-nucleon interaction. In a first step, we condition the inference on neutron-proton and proton-proton scattering data and account for uncorrelated $χ$EFT truncation errors. We demonstrate how to successfully sample the 31-dimensional space of LECs at N3LO using a revised HMC inference protocol. In a second step we extend the analysis by means of importance sampling and an empirical determination of the neutron-neutron scattering length to infer the posterior PDF for the leading charge-dependent contact LEC in the $^{1}S_0$ neutron-neutron interaction channel. While doing so we account for the $χ$EFT truncation error via a conjugate prior. We use the resulting posterior PDF to sample the posterior predictive distributions for the effective range parameters in the $^{1}S_0$ wave as well as the strengths of charge-symmetry breaking and charge-independence breaking. We conclude that empirical point-estimate results of isospin breaking in the $^{1}S_0$ channel are consistent with the PDFs obtained in our Bayesian analysis and that, when accounting for $χ$EFT truncation errors, one must go to next-to-next-to-leading order to confidently detect isospin breaking effects. |
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| spellingShingle | Bayesian estimation of the low-energy constants up to fourth order in the nucleon-nucleon sector of chiral effective field theory Svensson, Isak Ekström, Andreas Forssén, Christian Nuclear Theory We use Bayesian methods and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) sampling to infer the posterior probability density function (PDF) for the low-energy constants (LECs) up to next-to-next-to-next- to-leading order (N3LO) in a chiral effective field theory ($χ$EFT) description of the nucleon-nucleon interaction. In a first step, we condition the inference on neutron-proton and proton-proton scattering data and account for uncorrelated $χ$EFT truncation errors. We demonstrate how to successfully sample the 31-dimensional space of LECs at N3LO using a revised HMC inference protocol. In a second step we extend the analysis by means of importance sampling and an empirical determination of the neutron-neutron scattering length to infer the posterior PDF for the leading charge-dependent contact LEC in the $^{1}S_0$ neutron-neutron interaction channel. While doing so we account for the $χ$EFT truncation error via a conjugate prior. We use the resulting posterior PDF to sample the posterior predictive distributions for the effective range parameters in the $^{1}S_0$ wave as well as the strengths of charge-symmetry breaking and charge-independence breaking. We conclude that empirical point-estimate results of isospin breaking in the $^{1}S_0$ channel are consistent with the PDFs obtained in our Bayesian analysis and that, when accounting for $χ$EFT truncation errors, one must go to next-to-next-to-leading order to confidently detect isospin breaking effects. |
| title | Bayesian estimation of the low-energy constants up to fourth order in the nucleon-nucleon sector of chiral effective field theory |
| topic | Nuclear Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.08250 |