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These lecture notes begin with a brief survey of the physics of heavy quark systems. This discusion motivates the introduction of the Heavy Quark Effective theory (HQET) which captures a great deal of the intuition developed. A derivation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 F. Hussain , G. Thompson

We obtain the subleading soft theorem for a generic theory of quantum gravity, for arbitrary number of soft photons and gravitons and for arbitrary number of finite energy particles with arbitrary mass and spin when all the soft particles…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-09 Sayali Atul Bhatkar , Biswajit Sahoo

Using soft-collinear effective theory (SCET), which provides a unified framework for factorization, resummation of logarithms, and incorporation of universal nonperturbative functions in hard-scattering QCD cross-sections, we present a new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-16 Andrew Hornig , Christopher Lee , Grigory Ovanesyan

We derive a factorization formula for coherent and incoherent $ep$ diffraction using the soft collinear effective theory, utilizing multiple power expansion parameters to handle different kinematic regions. This goes beyond the known…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-02 Kyle Lee , Stella T. Schindler , Iain W. Stewart

The complex critical points are analyzed in the 4-dimensional Lorentzian Engle-Pereira-Rovelli-Livine (EPRL) spinfoam model in the large-$j$ regime. For the 4-simplex amplitude, taking into account the complex critical point generalizes the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-02 Muxin Han , Hongguang Liu , Dongxue Qu

We discuss our work toward the construction of a light-shell effective theory (LSET), an effective field theory for describing the matter emerging from high-energy collisions and the accompanying radiation. We work in the highly simplified…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-29 Howard Georgi , Greg Kestin , Aqil Sajjad

I develop an Effective Field Theory (EFT) framework to compute jet substructure observables for heavy ion collision experiments. As an illustration, I consider dijet events that accompany the formation of a weakly coupled Quark Gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-24 Varun Vaidya

The Lagrangian formulation of Gravitoelectromagnetism (GEM) theory is considered. GEM is a gravitational theory constructed based on the similarities between gravity and electromagnetism. In this framework, we investigate gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-20 L. A. S. Evangelista , A. F. Santos

We reconsider the general question of how to characterize most efficiently the low-energy effective theory obtained by integrating out heavy modes in globally and locally supersymmetric theories. We consider theories with chiral and vector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-22 Leonardo Brizi , Marta Gomez-Reino , Claudio A. Scrucca

We propose a new method to evaluate jet substructure observables in inclusive jet measurements, based upon semi-inclusive jet functions in the framework of Soft Collinear Effective Theory (SCET). As a first example, we consider the jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-29 Zhong-Bo Kang , Felix Ringer , Ivan Vitev

We derive new constraints on massive gravity from unitarity and analyticity of scattering amplitudes. Our results apply to a general effective theory defined by Einstein gravity plus the leading soft diffeomorphism-breaking corrections. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-05 Clifford Cheung , Grant N. Remmen

We discuss the most general form of the leading power suppressed collinear operators in the soft-collinear effective theory. Such operators appear in the description of power corrections to exclusive heavy flavor decays into energetic light…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Andri Hardmeier , Enrico Lunghi , Dan Pirjol , Daniel Wyler

In this paper we present a detailed formulation for a recently proposed effective field theory to describe the nonperturbative QCD dynamics of heavy mesons. This effective theory incorporates with heavy quark symmetry (HQS) and the heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Hai-Yang Cheng , Chi-Yee Cheung , Wei-Min Zhang

We derive cosmological soft theorems for solids coupled to gravity. To this end, we first derive all cosmological adiabatic modes for solids, which display the interesting novelty of non-vanishing anisotropic stresses on large scales. Then,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-12 Enrico Pajer , Sadra Jazayeri , Drian van der Woude

We derive the splitting kernels for partons produced in large $Q^2$ scattering processes that subsequently traverse a region of strongly-interacting matter using a recently-developed effective theory \SCETG. We include all corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Grigory Ovanesyan , Ivan Vitev

We propose a new phenomenological second order gravity theory to be denoted as ''Schouten-Codazzi' Gravity'' (SCG), as it is based on Schouten and Codazzi tensors. The theory is related, but is clearly distinct from Cotton Gravity. By…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-06 Roberto A Sussman , Sebastian Najera

Effective field theories (EFTs) of heavy particles coupled to the inflaton are rife with operator redundancies, frequently obscured by sensitivity to both boundary terms and field redefinitions. We initiate a systematic study of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-08 Nathaniel Craig , Soubhik Kumar , Amara McCune

We develop the gauge approach based on the Lorentz group to the gravity with torsion. With a Lagrangian quadratic in curvature we show that the Einstein-Hilbert action can be induced from a simple gauge model due to quantum corrections of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. W. Kim , D. G. Pak

Assuming that the mechanism proposed by Gell-Mann and Hartle works as a mechanism for decoherence and classicalization of the metric field, we formally derive the form of an effective theory for the gravitational field in a semiclassical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-15 Rosario Martin , Enric Verdaguer

The soft limits of scattering amplitudes have been extensively studied due to their essential role in the computation of physical observables in collider physics. The universal factorisation that occurs in these kinematic limits has been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Tristan McLoughlin , Andrea Puhm , Ana-Maria Raclariu