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We compute the low energy effective field theory (EFT) expansion for single-field inflationary models that descend from a parent theory containing multiple other scalar fields. By assuming that all other degrees of freedom in the parent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-21 Ana Achucarro , Jinn-Ouk Gong , Sjoerd Hardeman , Gonzalo A. Palma , Subodh P. Patil

The effective field theory (EFT) of inflation has become the preferred method for computing cosmological correlation functions of the curvature fluctuation, $\zeta$. It makes explicit use of the soft breaking of time diffeomorphisms by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-06-10 Nishant Agarwal , Raquel H. Ribeiro , R. Holman

We develop an effective-field-theory (EFT) framework for inflation with various symmetry breaking pattern. As a prototype, we formulate anisotropic inflation from the perspective of EFT and construct an effective action of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-14 Jinn-Ouk Gong , Toshifumi Noumi , Gary Shiu , Jiro Soda , Kazufumi Takahashi , Masahide Yamaguchi

We present the model-independent studies of non attractor inflation in the context of effective field theory (EFT) of inflation. Within the EFT approach two independent branches of non-attractor inflation solutions are discovered in which a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-06 Mohammad Akhshik , Hassan Firouzjahi , Sadra Jazayeri

We investigate the possibility of constraining parameters of Effective Field Theory (EFT) of inflation with upcoming Large Scale Structure (LSS) surveys in order to have a better understanding of inflationary dynamics. With the development…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-23 Abhishek Naskar , Sayantan Choudhury , Argha Banerjee , Supratik Pal

Effective field theory is a powerful organizing principle that allows to describe physics below a certain scale model-independently. Above that energy scale, identified with the cutoff, the EFT description breaks down and new physics is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-19 Lotfi Boubekeur

The effective field theory (EFT) of inflation provides a natural framework to study the new physical effects on primordial perturbations. Recently a healthy extension of the EFT of inflation with high-order operators has been proposed,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-01 Jin Qiao , Guang-Hua Ding , Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang

We investigate whether Effective Field Theory (EFT) approaches, which have been useful in examining inflation and dark energy, can also be used to establish a systematic approach to inflationary reheating. We consider two methods. First, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-27 Ogan Ozsoy , John T. Giblin , Eva Nesbit , Gizem Sengor , Scott Watson

Effective Field Theory (EFT) is an efficient method for parametrizing unknown high energy physics effects on low energy data. When applied to time-dependent backgrounds, EFT must be supplemented with initial conditions. In these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Porrati

The effective field theory (EFT) of inflation provides an essential picture to explore the effects of the unknown high energy physics in the single scalar field inflation models. For a generic EFT of inflation, possible high energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-03 Guang-Hua Ding , Jin Qiao , Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang

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

The conservation of the long wavelength fluctuations of the metric plays a vital role in cosmology as the link between quantum fluctuations during inflation and late time observations. This is a well-known property of the classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-06 Daniel Green , Kshitij Gupta

In our quest to understand the generation of cosmological perturbations, we face two serious obstacles: we do not have direct information about the environment experienced by primordial perturbations during inflation, and our observables…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-14 Santiago Agui Salcedo , Thomas Colas , Enrico Pajer

I review the effective field theory (EFT) description of gravitating compact objects. The focus is on kinematic regimes where gravity is perturbative, in particular the adiabatic inspiral phase relevant to gravitational wave detection. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Walter D. Goldberger

We take an Effective Field Theory (EFT) approach to unifying existing proposals for the origin of cosmic acceleration and its connection to cosmological observations. Building on earlier work where EFT methods were used with observations to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-24 Jolyon K. Bloomfield , Éanna É. Flanagan , Minjoon Park , Scott Watson

We study the effective field theory (EFT) description of the virtual particle effects in quasi-single field inflation, which unifies the previous results on large mass and large mixing cases. By using a horizon crossing approximation and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-13 Xi Tong , Yi Wang , Siyi Zhou

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

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

In a recently proposed scenario for primordial inflation, where the Standard Model (SM) Higgs boson plays a role of the inflation field, an effective field theory (EFT) approach is the most convenient for working out the consequences of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Horvat

The methods of effective field theory are used to study generic theories of inflation with a single inflaton field. For scalar modes, the leading corrections to the ${\cal R}$ correlation function are found to be purely of the $k$-inflation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven Weinberg
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