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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

We develop the effective field theory (EFT) of perturbations in the context of scalar-tensor theories with a spacelike scalar profile on arbitrary black hole backgrounds. Our construction of the EFT is based on the fact that in the unitary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-16 Shinji Mukohyama , Emeric Seraille , Kazufumi Takahashi , Vicharit Yingcharoenrat

I review the main features of the effective field theory (EFT) behind scenarios of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking, placing particular emphasis on the systematics and the parallels that can be drawn with Chiral Perturbation Theory.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-23 Oscar Cata

Chiral effective field theory (EFT) provides a systematic expansion for the coupling of WIMPs to nucleons at the momentum transfers relevant to direct cold dark matter detection. We derive the currents for spin-dependent WIMP scattering off…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Menendez , D. Gazit , A. Schwenk

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

This review gives an overview of effective field theory (EFT) as applied at finite density, with a focus on nuclear many-body systems. Uniform systems with short-range interactions illustrate the ingredients and virtues of many-body EFT and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-19 R. J. Furnstahl , G. Rupak , T. Schaefer

We show how nuclear effective field theory (EFT) and ab initio nuclear-structure methods can turn input from lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) into predictions for the properties of nuclei. We argue that pionless EFT is the appropriate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-05 N. Barnea , L. Contessi , D. Gazit , F. Pederiva , 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

Chiral effective field theory (EFT) provides a systematic and controlled approach to low-energy nuclear physics. Here, we use chiral EFT to calculate low-energy weak Gamow-Teller transitions. We put special emphasis on the role of two-body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Doron Gazit

We present an effective field theory (EFT) for a model-independent description of deformed atomic nuclei. In leading order this approach recovers the well-known results from the collective model by Bohr and Mottelson. When higher-order…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-04-14 T. Papenbrock , H. A. Weidenmüller

We develop an effective field theory (EFT) for nuclear vibrations. The key ingredients - quadrupole degrees of freedom, rotational invariance, and a breakdown scale around the three-phonon level - are taken from data. The EFT is developed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-15 E. A. Coello Pérez , T. Papenbrock

We formulate an effective field theory (EFT) of coupled dark energy (DE) and dark matter (DM) interacting through energy and momentum transfers. In the DE sector, we exploit the EFT of vector-tensor theories with the presence of a preferred…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Katsuki Aoki , Jose Beltrán Jiménez , Masroor C. Pookkillath , Shinji Tsujikawa

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

Effective field theories (EFT) parameterize the long-distance effects of short-distance dynamics whose details may or may not be known. It is known that EFT coefficients must obey certain positivity constraints if causality and unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-16 Simon Caron-Huot , Vincent Van Duong

Various aspects of the application of Effective Field Theory (EFT) to the Nucleon-Nucleon (NN) interaction are considered. We look for contributions beyond One Pion Exchange which are predicted by Chiral Symmetry. Using the formalism of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Keith G. Richardson

Effective field theory (EFT) methods for a uniform system of fermions with short-range, natural interactions are extended to include pairing correlations, as part of a program to develop a systematic Kohn-Sham density functional theory…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. J. Furnstahl , H. -W. Hammer , S. J. Puglia

Effective field theory (EFT) is generalized to investigate the rotational motion of triaxially deformed even-even nuclei. A Hamiltonian, called the triaxial rotor model (TRM), is obtained up to next-to-leading order (NLO) within the EFT…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Q. B. Chen , N. Kaiser , Ulf-G. Meißner , J. Meng

We present a practical three-step procedure of using the Standard Model effective field theory (SM EFT) to connect ultraviolet (UV) models of new physics with weak scale precision observables. With this procedure, one can interpret…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-10 Brian Henning , Xiaochuan Lu , Hitoshi Murayama

Since the pioneering work of Weinberg, Chiral Effective Field Theory ($\chi$EFT) has been widely and successfully utilized in nuclear physics to study many-nucleon interactions and associated electroweak currents. Nuclear $\chi$EFT has now…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-11-17 Alessandro Baroni , Garrett B. King , Saori Pastore

We review the effective field theory (EFT) approach to gravitational dynamics. We focus on extended objects in long-wavelength backgrounds and gravitational wave emission from spinning binary systems. We conclude with an introduction to EFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-17 Rafael A. Porto