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Strong Interactions for Precision Nuclear Physics

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One of the key challenges in ab initio nuclear theory is to understand the emergence of nuclear structure from quantum chromodynamics. I will address this challenge and focus on the statistical aspects of uncertainty quantification and parameter estimation in chiral effective field theory.

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank all my collaborators for sharing their insights during our joint work on the range of topics presented here. This work has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 758027) and the Swedish Research Council under Grant No. 2015-00225 and Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions, Cofund, Project INCA 600398.

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Ekström, A. (2020). Strong Interactions for Precision Nuclear Physics. In: Orr, N., Ploszajczak, M., Marqués, F., Carbonell, J. (eds) Recent Progress in Few-Body Physics. FB22 2018. Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol 238. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32357-8_90

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