Effective Field Theory of Gravity to All Orders
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2020-06-24 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We construct the general effective field theory of gravity coupled to the Standard Model of particle physics, which we name GRSMEFT. Our method allows the systematic derivation of a non-redundant set of operators of arbitrary dimension with generic field content and gravity. We explicitly determine the pure gravity EFT up to dimension ten, the EFT of a shift-symmetric scalar coupled to gravity up to dimension eight, and the operator basis for the GRSMEFT up to dimension eight. Extensions to all orders are straightforward.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1908.08050,
title = {Effective Field Theory of Gravity to All Orders},
author = {Maximilian Ruhdorfer and Javi Serra and Andreas Weiler},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.08050},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
30 pages + appendices and references. v2: typos fixed, references added, new appendix on gravity in d > 4 spacetime dimensions; matches version to be published in JHEP