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The strong interaction, i.e., quantum chromodynamics at the low energy nuclear regime, is notoriously known to be challenging for predictive modeling. Here, we use the simplest possible nuclear effective field theory (EFT), and show that in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-07-21 Hilla De-Leon , Doron Gazit

Radiative corrections to the lifetime and angular correlation coefficients of neutron beta-decay are evaluated in effecitive field theory. We also evaluate the lowest order nucleon recoil corrections, including weak-magnetism. Our results…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 S. Ando , H. W. Fearing , V. Gudkov , K. Kubodera , F. Myhrer , S. Nakamura , T. Sato

Effective Field Theory(EFT) is, the unique, model independent and systematic low-energy version of QCD for processes involving momenta below the pion mass. A low-energy photo-nuclear observable in three-body systems, photon polarization…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Sadeghi

Attempts to apply effective field theory (EFT) methods to nonrelativistic nucleon-nucleon (NN) scattering have raised questions about the nature and limitations of an EFT expansion when used nonperturbatively. We discuss the characteristics…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 James V. Steele , R. J. Furnstahl

The renormalization of the effective field theories (EFTs) in many-body systems is the most pressing and challenging problem in modern nuclear ab initio calculation. For general non-relativistic EFTs, we prove that the renormalization group…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-08-29 Bing-Nan Lu , Bao-Ge Deng

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

Effective Field Theory (EFT) stands as a cornerstone in modern theoretical physics, offering a powerful framework for describing the dynamics of physical systems across a wide range of energy scales. This article provides an in-depth…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-15 Waqas Riaz

The characteristics of a meaningful effective field theory (EFT) analysis are discussed and compared with traditional approaches to NN scattering. A key feature of an EFT treatment is a systematic expansion in powers of momentum, which is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 James V. Steele

Collective modes emerge as the relevant degrees of freedom that govern low-energy excitations of atomic nuclei. These modes - rotations, pairing rotations, and vibrations - are separated in energy from non-collective excitations, making it…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-12 E. A. Coello Pérez , T. Papenbrock

We discuss shallow resonances in the nonrelativistic scattering of two particles using an effective field theory (EFT) that includes an auxiliary field with the quantum numbers of the resonance. We construct the manifestly renormalized…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-15 J. B. Habashi , S. Fleming , U. van Kolck

Effective Field Theory (EFT) provides a powerful framework to exploit a separation of scales in order to perform systematically improvable, model-independent calculations. We apply this method to strongly interacting quantum systems with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-06-25 H. -W. Hammer

The virtues of an effective field theory (EFT) approach to many-body problems are illustrated by deriving the expansion for the energy of an homogeneous, interacting Fermi gas at low density and zero temperature. A renormalization scheme…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 H. -W. Hammer , R. J. Furnstahl

Cutoff independence is an essential requirement for the predictive power of nuclear \textit{ab initio} calculations based on effective field theory (EFT). While it is conventionally assumed that such invariance necessitates high-order…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-23 Chen-Can Wang , Jia-Ai Shi , Bing-Nan Lu

Effective Field Theory (EFT) is a general framework to parametrize the low-energy approximation to a UV model that is widely used in model-independent searches for new physics. The use of EFTs at the LHC can suffer from a 'validity' issue,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Spencer Chang , Markus A. Luty , Teng Ma , Francesco Montagno , Andrea Wulzer

Effective field theories (EFTs) provide a powerful framework to parametrise unknown aspects of possible ultraviolet (UV) physics. For scalar fields in de Sitter space, however, new emergent phenomena can arise when the cut-off scale of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-06 Sebastian Cespedes , Zhehan Qin , Dong-Gang Wang

Effective field theories have been successful in describing nuclei up to the alpha particle but face significant challenges for larger nuclei due to leading-order instabilities. These issues can be addressed with the introduction of a fake…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-02 U. van Kolck

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 inflation has taken a central role in our current understanding of the very early universe. The EFT perspective has been particularly useful in analyzing the self-interactions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-05 Rhiannon Gwyn , Gonzalo A. Palma , Mairi Sakellariadou , Spyros Sypsas

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…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 H. -W. Hammer

Building upon the worldline effective field theory (EFT) formalism for spinning bodies developed for the Post-Newtonian regime, we generalize the EFT approach to Post-Minkowskian (PM) dynamics to include rotational degrees of freedom in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-30 Zhengwen Liu , Rafael A. Porto , Zixin Yang