QCD Theory meets Information Theory
What if we could generate synthetic data for the Large Hadron Collider based entirely on first-principles theoretical calculations? While this dream is hopelessly out of reach, we do have a growing catalog of precision calculations in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) as a well as increasingly accurate Monte Carlo generators. In this talk, I show how to leverage ideas from information theory and machine learning to merge these disparate QCD predictions into a unified theoretical prediction with associated uncertainties. Our strategy highlights the importance of logarithmic moments, which have not been previously studied in the QCD literature.

