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We present a "dictionary" to expedite the identification of potential deviations in gravitational waveforms from those predicted by General Relativity (GR) during the inspiral phase of black hole binaries. Assuming deviations from GR can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-04 Laura Bernard , Suvendu Giri , Luis Lehner , Riccardo Sturani

In this whitepaper, I describe modern applications of effective field theory (EFT) techniques to classical and quantum gravity, with relevance to problems in astrophysics and cosmology. As in applications of EFT to high-energy, nuclear, or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-30 Walter D. Goldberger

[Abridged] This review article presents the progress made over the last decade, since the introduction of effective field theories (EFTs) into post-Newtonian (PN) gravity. These have been put forward in the context of gravitational waves…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-19 Michèle Levi

The effective field theory (EFT) of cosmological perturbations is a useful framework to deal with the low-energy degrees of freedom present for inflation and dark energy. We review the EFT for modified gravitational theories by starting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-13 Shinji Tsujikawa

In the framework of the effective field theory (EFT) we discuss the electroweak (EW) corrections at LEP energies. We obtain the effective Lagrangian in the large m_t limit, and reproduce analytically the dominant EW corrections to the LEP2…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. A. Akhundov , J. Bernabeu , D. Gomez Dumm , A. Santamaria

We present in detail an Effective Field Theory (EFT) formulation for the essential case of spinning objects as the components of inspiralling compact binaries. We review its implementation, carried out in a series of works in recent years,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-27 Michele Levi

Using the Schwinger-Keldysh "in-in" effective field theory (EFT) framework, we complete the knowledge of nonlinear gravitational radiation-reaction effects in the (relative) dynamics of binary systems at fifth Post-Newtonian (5PN) order.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-26 Rafael A. Porto , Massimiliano M. Riva , Zixin Yang

We present a general perturbative effective field theory (EFT) description of galaxy shape correlations, which are commonly known as intrinsic alignments. This rigorous approach extends current analytical modelling strategies in that it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Zvonimir Vlah , Nora Elisa Chisari , Fabian Schmidt

We derive the gravitational waveform and gravitational-wave energy flux generated by a binary star system of compact objects (neutron stars or black holes), accurate through second post-Newtonian order ($O[(v/c)^4] \sim O[(Gm/rc^2)^2]$)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Clifford M. Will , Alan G. Wiseman

Working within the post-Newtonian (PN) approximation to General Relativity, we use the effective field theory (EFT) framework to study the conservative dynamics of the two-body motion at fourth PN order, at fifth order in the Newton…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-17 Stefano Foffa , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Riccardo Sturani , Christian Sturm

The predictions of inflation are usually defined in terms of equal time in-in correlation functions in an accelerating cosmological background. These same observables exist for quantum field theory in other spacetimes, including flat space.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-29 Daniel Green , Guanhao Sun

We dig into the semi-classical description of gravity by studying one-loop corrections to primordial power spectra generated during cosmic inflation from gravitational nonlinear interactions. In the realm of the Effective Field Theory (EFT)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-11 Matteo Braglia , Lucas Pinol

We have continued the development of Lagrangian, cosmological perturbation theory for the low-order correlators of the matter density field. We provide a new route to understanding how the effective field theory (EFT) of large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Zvonimir Vlah , Martin White , Alejandro Aviles

Effective field theory (EFT) provides a systematic framework to describe possible deviations from general relativity through higher-curvature corrections to the gravitational action, capturing low-energy effects of an underlying fundamental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-05 Takamasa Kanai

We introduce an effective field theory (EFT) for conformal impurity by considering a pair of transversely displaced impurities and integrating out modes with mass inversely proportional to the separation distance. This EFT captures the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-11 Oleksandr Diatlyk , Himanshu Khanchandani , Fedor K. Popov , Yifan Wang

Part 2 of 3 from master's thesis: Modeling Compact Objects with Effective Field Theory. Using the Effective Field Theory framework for extended objects, we build the effective theory of a binary system made up of the most general compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-06 Irvin Martinez

To be observed and analyzed by the network of current gravitational wave detectors (LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA), and in anticipation of future third generation ground based (Einstein Telescope, Cosmic Explorer) and space borne (LISA) detectors,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-16 Luc Blanchet

The effective field theory (EFT) for triaxially deformed even-even nuclei is generalized to include the vibrational degrees of freedom. The pertinent Hamiltonian is constructed up to next-to-leading order. The leading order part describes…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Q. B. Chen , N. Kaiser , Ulf-G. Meißner , J. Meng

The effective field theory (EFT) concept provides a necessary tool for obtaining general predictions of low-energy theory valid below its unitarity-breaking scale (cutoff scale). Early Universe inflation and subsequent reheating could be a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-21 Jiaxin Cheng , Anna Tokareva

In the effective field theory (EFT) description of binary inspirals, the radiated gravitational waveform receives universal corrections from the curved background, the so-called ``tail effects'', that resum into the so-called ``Sommerfeld…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-04 Chih-Hao Chang , Chia-Hsien Shen , Zihan Zhou