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In this work we investigate the most general non-minimally coupled $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetric scalar-tensor effective field theory (EFT) of gravity up to dimension six in the operator expansion. The most general action is presented along with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-24 Callum Hunter , Michael Kenna-Allison

Dispersion relations let us leverage the analytic structure of scattering amplitudes to derive constraints such as bounds on EFT coefficients. An important input is the large-energy behavior of the amplitude. In this paper, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-18 Brian McPeak , Marco Venuti , Alessandro Vichi

Effective Field Theories (EFTs) for Goldstone Boson scattering at a low order allow the computation of near--threshold observables in terms of a few coefficients arranged by a counting. As a matter of principle they should make sense up to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-07 Juan Escudero-Pedrosa , Felipe J. Llanes-Estrada , José Antonio Oller , Alexandre Salas-Bernárdez

Chiral effective field theory (EFT) predictions are necessarily truncated at some order in the EFT expansion, which induces an error that must be quantified for robust statistical comparisons to experiment. In previous work, a Bayesian…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-08-28 J. A. Melendez , S. Wesolowski , R. J. Furnstahl

We show that long-distance quantum correlations probe short-distance physics. Two disjoint regions of the latticized, massless scalar field vacuum are numerically demonstrated to become separable at distances beyond the negativity sphere,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-01 Natalie Klco , Martin J. Savage

Much of our intuition about Effective Field Theories (EFTs) stems from their formulation in flat spacetime, yet EFTs have become indispensable tools in cosmology, where time-dependent backgrounds are the norm. In this work, we demonstrate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-09 Carlos Duaso Pueyo , Harry Goodhew , Ciaran McCulloch , Enrico Pajer

The use of Eulerian 'standard perturbation theory' to describe mass assembly in the early universe has traditionally been limited to modes with k $\lesssim$ 0.1 h/Mpc at z = 0. At larger k the SPT power spectrum deviates from measurements…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-28 Lucía Fonseca de la Bella , Donough Regan , David Seery , Shaun Hotchkiss

We systematically explore the space of scalar effective field theories (EFTs) consistent with a Lorentz invariant and local S-matrix. To do so we define an EFT classification based on four parameters characterizing 1) the number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Clifford Cheung , Karol Kampf , Jiri Novotny , Chia-Hsien Shen , Jaroslav Trnka

We derive on-shell recursion relations for nonrelativistic effective field theories (EFTs) with enhanced soft limits. The recursion relations are illustrated through analytic calculation of tree-level scattering amplitudes in theories with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-07 Martin A. Mojahed , Tomas Brauner

We derive an exact representation of the exchange-correlation energy within density functional theory (DFT) which spawns a class of approximations leading to correct long-range asymptotic behavior. In what amounts to be the simplest…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Roi Baer , Daniel Neuhauser

The equations of motion for the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) differ from those in the Standard Model. Corrections due to local contact operators modify the equations of motion and impact matching results at sub-leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-12-26 Abdurrahman Barzinji , Michael Trott , Anagha Vasudevan

We review the effective field theory (EFT) bootstrap by formulating it as an infinite-dimensional semidefinite program (SDP), built from the crossing symmetric sum rules and the S-matrix primal ansatz. We apply the program to study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-17 Yue-Zhou Li

In recent years, a change in attitude in particle physics has led to our understanding current quantum field theories as effective field theories (EFTs). The present paper is concerned with the significance of this EFT approach, especially…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elena Castellani

Self-consistent field theory (SCFT) is one of the useful methods to simulate phase separated structures of multi-component polymer systems. In this article, we propose an SCFT for semiflexible polymer melts, where the basic equations for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-04 Yutaka Oya , Toshihiro Kawakatsu

Even if some experimental evidence suggests the existence of physics beyond the SM, no clues of new resonances can be found in the data. In the case their masses are much larger than the energies of current experiments, the SMEFT formalism…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-18 Matteo Maltoni

We investigate the strong coupling problem in modified teleparallel gravity theories using the effective field theory (EFT) approach, demonstrating that it is possible to shift the emergence of new degrees of freedom (DoFs) to lower orders…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-07 Yu-Min Hu , Bi-Chu Li , Yang Yu , Martin Krššák , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Yi-Fu Cai

Two-nucleon effective field theory (EFT) beyond momenta of order the pion mass is studied for both cutoff regularization and dimensional regularization with power divergence subtraction (PDS). Models with two mass scales illustrate how…

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

We describe new non-supersymmetric conformal field theories in three and four dimensions, using the CFT/AdS correspondence. In order to believe in their existence at large N_c and strong 't Hooft coupling, we explicitly check the stability…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jacques Distler , Frederic Zamora

The entanglement entropy of an arbitrary spacetime region $A$ in a three-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) contains a constant universal coefficient, $F(A)$. For general theories, the value of $F(A)$ is minimized when $A$ is a round…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 Pablo Bueno , Horacio Casini , Oscar Lasso Andino , Javier Moreno

In this thesis we elaborate on two different aspects of the Effective Field Theory (EFT) approach to a Binary Coalescing system in General Relativity (GR). First, we consider the issue of hereditary effects in the Post-Newtonian (PN)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-03 Giacomo Brunello