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This article reviews unitarization methods essential for extending Effective Field Theories (EFTs) beyond their perturbative limits, particularly in hadronic and electroweak (EW) sectors. Perturbative EFTs, like Chiral Perturbation Theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-04 Alexandre Salas-Bernárdez

We show that an effective field theory that includes non-standard couplings between the electroweak gauge bosons and the top and bottom quarks may yield negative contributions to both the S and T oblique radiative electroweak parameters. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Bogdan A. Dobrescu , John Terning

Chiral perturbation theory is the effective field theory of the Standard Model at low energies. After a short introduction and overview, I discuss three topics where the chiral approach leads to a deeper understanding of low-energy hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Gerhard Ecker

We examine the quantum field description of massive Carrollian field theories, emphasizing the critical role of gauge fixing within the Carrollian sector. We illustrate this importance using scalar Carrollian Electrodynamics (sCED) as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-19 Aditya Sharma

We derive bounds on couplings in the standard model effective field theory (SMEFT) as a consequence of causality and the analytic structure of scattering amplitudes. In the SMEFT, there are 64 independent operators at mass dimension eight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-16 Grant N. Remmen , Nicholas L. Rodd

It is well-known but sometimes overlooked that constraints on the oblique parameters (most notably $S$ and $T$ parameters) are generally speaking only applicable to a special class of new physics scenarios known as universal theories. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 James D. Wells , Zhengkang Zhang

Effective Field Theories (EFTs) for Goldstone Boson scattering at a low order allow the computation of near--threshold observables in terms of a few coefficients arranged by a counting. As a matter of principle they should make sense up to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-07 Juan Escudero-Pedrosa , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada , José Antonio Oller , Alexandre Salas-Bernárdez

We present a simple introduction to the techniques of effective field theory (EFT) and their application to QCD. For problems with more than one energy scale, the EFT approach is a useful alternative to more traditional model-building…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 U. van Kolck , L. J. Abu-Raddad , D. M. Cardamone

The chiral effective field theory (ChEFT) is an extension of the chiral perturbation theory that includes the nuclear forces and weak currents at the hadronic and nuclear scales. We propose a systematic framework of parametrising the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-27 Hao Sun , Yi-Ning Wang , Jiang-Hao Yu

Predictive power in theoretical nuclear physics has been a major concern in the study of nuclear structure and reactions. The Effective Field Theory (EFT) based on chiral expansions provides a model independent hierarchy for many body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 E. Ruiz Arriola , J. E. Amaro , R. Navarro Perez

In this paper, we explore the nonsingular cosmology within the framework of the Effective Field Theory(EFT) of cosmological perturbations. Due to the recently proved no-go theorem, any nonsingular cosmological models based on the cubic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-24 Yong Cai , Youping Wan , Hai-Guang Li , Taotao Qiu , Yun-Song Piao

While chiral perturbation theory for mesons is characterized by a momentum expansion in $Q/\Lambda_\chi$ with $\Lambda_\chi \sim 1$ GeV, existing formulations of effective theory for nucleon-nucleon scattering deviate from data at $Q\sim…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-10 Cullen Gantenberg , David B. Kaplan

If the Standard Model is understood as the first term of an effective field theory, the anomaly-cancellation conditions have to be worked out and fulfilled order by order in the effective field-theory expansion. We bring attention to this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-20 Oscar Cata , Wolfgang Kilian , Nils Kreher

This review summarizes Effective Field Theory techniques, which are the modern theoretical tools for exploiting the existence of hierarchies of scale in a physical problem. The general theoretical framework is described, and explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 C. P. Burgess

Non equilibrium effective field theory is presented as an inhomogeneous field theory, using a formulation which is analogous to that of a gauge theory. This formulation underlines the importance of structural aspects of non-equilibrium,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark Burgess

This chapter is a non-expert introduction to the effective field theory of large scale structure. First, we give a detailed pedagogical explanation of why previous attempts to build non-linear cosmological perturbation theory failed. After…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-19 Mikhail M. Ivanov

Effective field theory (EFT) approaches are widely used at the LHC, such that it is important to study their validity, and ease of matching to specific new physics models. In this paper, we consider an extension of the SM in which a top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-04 Christoph Englert , Peter Galler , Chris D. White

Any effective field theory relies on power counting rules that allow one to perform a systematic expansion of calculated quantities in terms of some soft scales. However, a naive power counting can be violated due to the presence of various…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-24 A. M. Gasparyan , E. Epelbaum

Effective field theories offer a powerful method to unify diverse models under a small set of control parameters, allowing systematic expansions around well-established theories. These techniques, developed in particle physics, were…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-02 Thomas Colas

Effective Field Theory (EFT) extensions of the Standard Model are tools to compute observables $\big(e.g.$ cross sections with partonic center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{\hat{s}}\,\big)$ as a systematically improvable expansion suppressed by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-07 Timothy Cohen , Joel Doss , Xiaochuan Lu