Uncertainty quantification and falsification of Chiral Nuclear Potentials

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Are chiral theories at present describing experimental NN scattering data satisfactorily ?.

• Will the chiral approach offer a framework where fitting and selecting the existing np and pp data can be done without theoretical bias ?.
• While 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 has emerged after Weinberg as a model independent hierarchy for many body forces and much progress has been achieved over the last decades.
• We review some of the issues involved which point to being close to the solution, but also that work remains still to be done to validate the theory.