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In this letter, we consider effective field theories for light fields transforming under the fundamental or adjoint representation of a continuous group. We demonstrate that in the presence of gravity, crossing symmetry combined with two…

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We adopt a bottom-up Effective Field Theory (EFT) approach to derive a model-independent Veltman condition to cancel the quadratic divergences in the Higgs mass. We show using the equivalence theorem that all deviations in the Higgs…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-26 Fayez Abu-Ajamieh

The consistency of the EFT of two interacting spin-2 fields is checked by applying forward limit positivity bounds on the scattering amplitudes to exclude the region of parameter space devoid of a standard UV completion. We focus on two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Lasma Alberte , Claudia de Rham , Arshia Momeni , Justinas Rumbutis , Andrew J. Tolley

We derive the causality and unitarity constraints on dimension 6 and dimension 8 Gluon field strength operators in the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). In the first part of the paper, we use the 'amplitude analysis' i.e.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Diptimoy Ghosh , Rajat Sharma , Farman Ullah

This talk gives a short introduction to the ``UV/EFT correspondence", which uses scattering amplitudes to relate the Effective Field Theory (EFT) coefficients probed by low-energy measurements to properties of the underlying high-energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Scott Melville

Quantum quadratic gravity (QQG) produces a tree-level differential cross section for $\gamma\gamma\to\gamma\gamma$ that is well-behaved at all energies. From this we can study how the corrections to low energy scattering amplitudes are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-28 Bob Holdom

We study loop corrections to positivity bounds on effective field theories in the context of $2\to 2$ scattering in gravitational theories, in the presence of light particles. It has been observed that certain negative contributions at low…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-07 Simon Caron-Huot , Junsei Tokuda

Positivity bounds in effective field theories (EFTs) can be extracted through the moment problem approach, utilizing well-established results from the mathematical literature. We generalize this formalism using the matrix moment approach to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-25 Shi-Lin Wan , Shuang-Yong Zhou

We introduce a technique for restoring general coordinate invariance into theories where it is explicitly broken. This is the analog for gravity of the Callan-Coleman-Wess-Zumino formalism for gauge theories. We use this to elucidate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Howard Georgi , Matthew D. Schwartz

The study of Finite Size Effects in Quantum Field Theory allows the extraction of precious perturbative and non-perturbative information. The use of scaling functions can connect the particle content (scattering theory formulation) of a QFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Francesco Ravanini

We study the space of $2\to 2$ scattering amplitudes of neutral Goldstone bosons in four space-time dimensions. We establish universal bounds on the first two non-universal Wilson coefficients of the low energy Effective Field Theory (EFT)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-12 Francesca Acanfora , Andrea Guerrieri , Kelian Häring , Denis Karateev

The gravitational positivity bound gives quantitative "swampland'' constraints on low-energy effective theories inside theories of quantum gravity. We give a comprehensive discussion of this bound for those interested in applications to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-17 Katsuki Aoki , Toshifumi Noumi , Ryo Saito , Sota Sato , Satoshi Shirai , Junsei Tokuda , Masahito Yamazaki

In this paper, we promote the convex cone method of positive bounds from tree level to loop level. This method is general and can be applied to obtain leading $s^2$ positivity bounds on the forward scattering process in the standard model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-14 Xu Li

We show how calculable IR loop effects impact positivity bounds in Effective Field Theories with causal and unitary UV completions. We identify infrared singularities which appear in dispersion relations at $|t|\lesssim m^2$. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-23 Brando Bellazzini , Marc Riembau , Francesco Riva

We complete a trilogy on quantum graviton scattering in the null surface formulation (NSF) of general relativity by computing the fourth-order Bondi shear $\sigma^+_4$ and establishing three results of general scope. The perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-26 C. N. Kozameh , G. O. Depaola

We construct an infinite class of new ultraviolet-complete four-graviton scattering amplitudes that reduce to Einstein gravity at low energies, vanish at high energies, are meromorphic, and exhibit a triple-product structure ${\cal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-20 Yu-tin Huang , Grant N. Remmen

We re-examine the constraints imposed by causality and unitarity on the low-energy effective field theory expansion of four-particle scattering amplitudes, exposing a hidden "totally positive" structure strikingly similar to the positive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Tzu-Chen Huang , Yu-tin Huang

It has been suggested that one may construct a Lorentz-invariant noncommutative field theory by extending the coordinate algebra to additional, fictitious coordinates that transform nontrivially under the Lorentz group. Integration over…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Christopher D. Carone , Herry J. Kwee

The investigation of UV divergences is a relevant step in better understanding of a new theory. In this work the one-loop divergences in the free field sector are obtained for the popular Galileons model. The calculations are performed by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Tiberio de Paula Netto , Ilya L. Shapiro

Effective field theories (EFT) are commonly used to parameterize effects of BSM physics in vector boson scattering (VBS). For Wilson coefficients which are large enough to produce presently observable effects, the validity range of the EFT…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-18 Jannis Lang , Stefan Liebler , Heiko Schäfer-Siebert , Dieter Zeppenfeld