PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 336 - XIII Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum (Confinement2018) - Plenary
Bayesian techniques and applications to QCD
A. Rothkopf
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Pre-published on: September 12, 2019
Published on: September 26, 2019
Abstract
Realizing the full potential of interconnecting the large amounts of data created in physics experiments, phenomenological models and theory simulations requires robust tools for statistical inference. Here I review a particularly promising branch, Bayesian statistics, which over the past decade has found manifold use in high-energy physics. After a brief introduction to Bayesian statistics I will present two concrete examples, where Bayesian thinking has led to progress in understanding strongly interacting matter: unfolding problems in the form of lattice QCD spectral functions (in spirit similar to detector corrections), as well as the efficient estimation of quark-gluon-plasma parameters from a systematic comparison of experimental heavy-ion collision data and phenomenological models.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.336.0026
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