2025/12/19 by Lei, Jin
#FOS: Physical sciences #Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2512.17687
I develop a reduced basis emulator for continuum-discretized coupled-channel (CDCC) calculations that achieves speedups of ∼ 102 while maintaining sub-percent accuracy. The emulator is constructed using the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) method applied to snapshots of CDCC solutions computed at sampled points in the optical potential parameter space. The prediction is performed via Galerkin projection onto the reduced basis. I demonstrate the method using deuteron scattering on 58Ni at 21.6 MeV as a test case, emulating 18 optical potential parameters simultaneously. The emulator reproduces elastic scattering cross sections with errors below 0.1% across a wide parameter range. This development enables efficient uncertainty quantification and Bayesian parameter estimation for nuclear reaction calculations that were previously computationally prohibitive.