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Effective Field Theories (EFTs) capture effects from heavy dynamics at low energy and represent an essential ingredient in the context of Standard Model (SM) precision tests. This document gathers a number of relevant scenarios for heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-04 D. Marzocca , F. Riva , J. Criado , S. Dawson , J. de Blas , B. Henning , D. Liu , C. Murphy , M. Perez-Victoria , J. Santiago , L. Vecchi , Lian-Tao Wang

The effective field theory (EFT) framework is a precise approximation procedure when the inherent assumptions of a large-scale separation between the Standard Model (SM) and new interactions alongside perturbativity are realised.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-22 Upalaparna Banerjee , Joydeep Chakrabortty , Christoph Englert , Wrishik Naskar , Shakeel Ur Rahaman , Michael Spannowsky

The need to estimate smooth probability distributions (a.k.a. probability densities) from finite sampled data is ubiquitous in science. Many approaches to this problem have been described, but none is yet regarded as providing a definitive…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-09-16 Justin B. Kinney

Over the past years, the interpretation of measurements in the context of effective field theories has attracted much attention in the field of particle physics. We present a tool for interpreting sets of measurements in such models using a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-08-24 Nuno Castro , Johannes Erdmann , Cornelius Grunwald , Kevin Kröninger , Nils-Arne Rosien

We use effective field theory to compute the influence of nuclear structure on precision calculations of atomic energy levels. As usual, the EFT's effective couplings correspond to the various nuclear properties (such as the charge radius,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-19 L. Zalavari , C. P. Burgess , P. Hayman , M. Rummel

The 1D flux power spectrum ($P_{\mathrm{1D}}$) of the Ly$\alpha$ forest provides an exceptionally high-resolution probe of structure formation down to small scales ($k\approx1-10~\text{$h~$Mpc$^{-1}$}$). These scales carry the imprints of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 N. G. Karaçaylı , M. Ivanov , R. de Belsunce , C. Ravoux , J. M. Sexton , Z. Lukić

The method of effective field theories (EFTs) is developed for the scattering of two particles at wavelengths which are large compared to the range of their interaction. It is shown that the renormalized EFT is equivalent to the effective…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 U. van Kolck

Probing heavy new physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) increasingly relies on global effective field theory (EFT) likelihoods. We introduce differentiable, multi-scale EFT likelihoods that combine renormalization-group evolution,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-18 Aleks Smolkovič , Peter Stangl

Standard Model (SM) of particle physics has achieved enormous success in describing the interactions among the known fundamental constituents of nature, yet it fails to describe phenomena for which there is very strong experimental…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-17 Subhaditya Bhattacharya , Jose Wudka

The application of effective field theory (EFT) methods to nuclear systems provides the opportunity to rigorously estimate the uncertainties originating in the nuclear Hamiltonian. Yet this is just one source of uncertainty in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-13 R. J. Furnstahl , D. R. Phillips , S. Wesolowski

Effective Field Theories (EFTs) constructed as derivative expansions in powers of momentum, in the spirit of Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT), are a controllable approximation to strong dynamics as long as the energy of the interacting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-11 Alexandre Salas-Bernárdez , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada , Juan Escudero-Pedrosa , Jose Antonio Oller

We present an effective field theory (EFT) approach to extract fundamental cosmological parameters from the Lyman-alpha forest flux fluctuations as an alternative to the standard simulation-based techniques. As a first application, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-21 Mikhail M. Ivanov , Michael W. Toomey , Naim Göksel Karaçaylı

We present an Effective Field Theory (EFT) formalism which describes the dynamics of non-relativistic extended objects coupled to gravity. The formalism is relevant to understanding the gravitational radiation power spectra emitted by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Walter D. Goldberger , Ira Z. Rothstein

We perform Bayesian model calibration of two-nucleon ($NN$) low-energy constants (LECs) appearing in an $NN$ interaction based on pionless effective field theory (EFT). The calibration is carried out for potentials constructed using naive…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2024-08-06 J. M. Bub , M. Piarulli , R. J. Furnstahl , S. Pastore , D. R. Phillips

Bayesian model mixing (BMM) is a statistical technique that can combine constraints from different regions of an input space in a principled way. Here we extend our BMM framework for the equation of state (EOS) of strongly interacting…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-05-27 A. C. Semposki , C. Drischler , R. J. Furnstahl , D. R. Phillips

Effective Field Theories (EFTs) provide a framework for capturing the effects of yet unseen heavy degrees of freedom in a model-independent manner. However, constructing a complete and minimal set of operators, especially at higher mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-15 Magnus C. Schaaf

We assess the accuracy of Bayesian polynomial extrapolations from small parameter values, x, to large values of x. We consider a set of polynomials of fixed order, intended as a proxy for a fixed-order effective field theory (EFT)…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-17 M. A. Connell , I. Billig , D. R. Phillips

Effective Field Theory (EFT) provides a powerful framework that exploits a separation of scales in physical systems to perform systematically improvable, model-independent calculations. Particularly interesting are few-body systems with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 H. -W. Hammer

We propose a method to improve the efficiency and accuracy of amortized Bayesian inference by leveraging universal symmetries in the joint probabilistic model of parameters and data. In a nutshell, we invert Bayes' theorem and estimate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Marvin Schmitt , Desi R. Ivanova , Daniel Habermann , Ullrich Köthe , Paul-Christian Bürkner , Stefan T. Radev

Recent observations of neutron stars with gravitational waves and X-ray timing provide unprecedented access to the equation of state (EoS) of cold dense matter at densities difficult to realize in terrestrial experiments. At the same time,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-10 Reed Essick , Ingo Tews , Philippe Landry , Sanjay Reddy , Daniel E. Holz