Orateur
Description
Optical potentials (OMPs) have been a workhorse reaction theory tool for more than sixty years, but only in the last decade has OMP uncertainty quantification (UQ) made major strides. This stock-take will review OMP UQ across three avenues: improving training methodology for phenomenological OMPs, incorporating complementary reaction data for OMP training and testing, and broadening scope away from β-stability via microscopic and dispersive models. I hope to show that OMP UQ has grown from a boutique concern of reaction theorists to a practical tool for experimentalists, evaluators, and astrophysicists who need to quantitatively assess the “degree of surprise” remaining in state-of-the-art reaction models.
Auspices statement:
This manuscript has been authored by Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC under Contract No. DE-AC52-07NA27344 with the US. Department of Energy, with support from LDRD project 24-ERD-023. The United States Government retains, and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a non-exclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, world-wide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes.
Release number: LLNL-ABS-2016583
