Undergrad Research

Process Low Energy Constants

Graph of low energy constants
Graph of low energy constants

John Tice worked with Jason Bub, Maria Piarulli and Saori Pastore during the summer of 2021. The main goal of his project was to post process low energy constants (LECs)—i.e., unknown coefficients entering the = nucleon-nucleon interaction—found by fitting experimental data, and phase shifts. This project called for using python to write two scripts, one to process the LECs and the other for the phase shifts. The first takes the LECs and converts them into a more usable form, then produces corner plots of the new constants to determine if any adjusting for outliers needs to be done. The second script takes in the phase shift data and produces easy to analyze graphs using it. These scripts help expedite data processing for the main project.