Direct QCD-linked global nuclear description

Establish a theoretical description of all atomic nuclei that is directly linked to quantum chromodynamics at low energies, providing quantitative predictions across the nuclear chart despite QCD’s non-perturbative regime.

Background

The introduction emphasizes that while modern many-body methods and characterizations of nuclear forces have advanced, a comprehensive theory tied directly to QCD for all nuclei is still lacking.

This challenge stems from the non-perturbative nature of QCD at low energies and the complexity of nuclear many-body dynamics, motivating alternative modeling strategies such as symbolic regression.

References

Despite the exciting progress that has been made in developing a comprehensive characterization of the nuclear force and powerful many-body methods, a theoretical description of all the nuclei, with a direct link to QCD, remains a major unsolved challenge.

— Discovering Nuclear Models from Symbolic Machine Learning  (2404.11477 - Munoz et al., 2024) in Introduction