CFNS Ad-Hoc meeting on Radiative Corrections Whitepaper

TL;DR

This whitepaper summarizes a workshop focused on radiative corrections in precision scattering experiments, highlighting current techniques, uncertainties, and the need for improved theoretical and experimental methods in nuclear physics.

Contribution

It compiles community insights and discusses the state of radiative correction techniques relevant for upcoming high-precision experiments like the Electron Ion Collider.

Findings

Identified systematic uncertainties from radiative effects in scattering experiments.

Highlighted the need for improved theoretical models and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Provided a snapshot of current methodologies and challenges in radiative corrections.

Abstract

Current precision scattering experiments and even more so many experiments planed for the Electron Ion Collider will be limited by systematics. From the theory side, a fundamental source of systematic uncertainty is the correct treatment of radiative effects. To gauge the current state of technique and knowledge, help the cross-pollination between different direction of nuclear physics, and to give input to the yellow report process, the community met in an ad-hoc workshop hosted by the Center for Frontiers in Nuclear Science, Stony Brook University. This whitepaper is a collection of contributions to this workshop.