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A Brief Account of Steven Weinberg’s Legacy in ab initio  Many-Body Theory

Special Issue in Few-Body Systems: Celebrating 30 Years of Steven Weinberg’s Papers on Nuclear Forces from Chiral Lagrangians

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In this contribution to the special issue “Celebrating 30 years of Steven Weinberg’s papers on Nuclear Forces from Chiral Lagrangians,” we emphasize the important role chiral effective field theory has played in leading nuclear physics into a precision era. To this end, we share our perspective on a few of the recent advances made in ab initio  calculations of nuclear structure and nuclear matter observables, as well as Bayesian uncertainty quantification of effective field theory truncation errors.

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Acknowledgements

We thank our colleagues and collaborators who have helped shape our understanding of nuclear EFT and many-body theory. We are also grateful to Alejandro Kievsky for the kind invitation to contribute to this special issue and Heiko Hergert for providing us with the data for Figs. 4 and 5. This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics, under the FRIB Theory Alliance award DE-SC0013617, and the National Science Foundation awards PHY-2013047 and PHY-1713901.

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Drischler, C., Bogner, S.K. A Brief Account of Steven Weinberg’s Legacy in ab initio  Many-Body Theory. Few-Body Syst 62, 109 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00601-021-01677-2

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