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Tiny values for gauge couplings of dark photons allow to suppress their kinetic mixing with ordinary photons. We point out that the Weak Gravity Conjecture predicts consequently low ultraviolet cut-offs where new degrees of freedom might…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Karim Benakli , Carlo Branchina , Gaëtan Lafforgue-Marmet

We discuss implications of Weak gravity conjecture (WGC) for exotic D-brane instantons. In particular, WGC leads to indirect stringent bounds on non-perturbative superpotentials generated by exotic instantons, with many implications for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-25 Andrea Addazi

We find a new class of theories of massive gravity with five propagating degrees of freedom where only rotations are preserved. Our results are based on a non-perturbative and background-independent Hamiltonian analysis. In these theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Denis Comelli , Fabrizio Nesti , Luigi Pilo

As is well known, a varying effective gravitational "constant" is one of the common features of most modified gravity theories. Of course, as a modified gravity theory, $f(T)$ theory is not an exception. Noting that the observational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-31 Hao Wei , Hao-Yu Qi , Xiao-Peng Ma

Weak lensing (WL) promises to be a particularly sensitive probe of both the growth of large scale structure (LSS) as well as the fundamental relation between matter density perturbations and metric perturbations, thus providing a powerful…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-25 Geraint Pratten , Dipak Munshi , Patrick Valageas , Philippe Brax

Guided by a linearized approximation to Einstein theory, an interim prescription for ``weak source of gravity'' - - in ``particle'' energy-momentum distributed along standpoint light cone - - is formulated for (classical) standpoint…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 G. F. Chew

We apply the weak field approximation limit of the covariant Scalar-Tensor-Vector Gravity (STVG) theory, so-called MOdified gravity (MOG), to the dynamics of clusters of galaxies by using only baryonic matter. The MOG effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 J. W. Moffat , S. Rahvar

In this study, we investigate the Weak Gravity Conjecture (WGC) in the context of quantum-corrected AdS-Reissner-Nordstrom (AdS-RN) black holes within Kiselev spacetime. Our focus is on photon spheres, which serve as markers for stable and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Mohammad Reza Alipour , Mohammad Ali S. Afshar , Saeed Noori Gashti , Jafar Sadeghi

There are two canonical approaches to treating the Standard Model as an Effective Field Theory (EFT): Standard Model EFT (SMEFT), expressed in the electroweak symmetric phase utilizing the Higgs doublet, and Higgs EFT (HEFT), expressed in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-11 Timothy Cohen , Nathaniel Craig , Xiaochuan Lu , Dave Sutherland

Given a theory containing both heavy and light fields (the UV theory), a standard procedure is to integrate out the heavy field to obtain an effective field theory (EFT) for the light fields. Typically the EFT equations of motion consist of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-04 Harvey S. Reall , Claude M. Warnick

The Weak Gravity Conjecture states that in any consistent theory of quantum gravity in the landscape of string theory, the repulsive force mediated by a U(1) gauge field must be stronger than the attractive force of gravity. In this work,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-13 Tommaso Antonelli , Xavier Calmet

Effective field theory (EFT) provides a systematic framework for parametrizing possible higher-energy corrections to general relativity through higher-curvature interactions. In this work, we investigate gravitational lensing in both weak-…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 Takamasa Kanai

We consider a linearized, effective quantum theory of gravitation in which gravity weakens at energies higher than ~10^-3 eV in order to accommodate the apparent smallness of the cosmological constant. Such a theory predicts departures from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. R. Caldwell , Daniel Grin

We extend the effective field theory (EFT) formalism for gravitational radiation from a binary system of compact objects to the case of extended objects. In particular, we study the EFT for a binary system consisting of two infinitely-long…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-25 Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez , Qiuyue Liang , Mark Trodden

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

According to the weak form of Einstein's general relativity equivalence principle, the gravitational and inertial masses are equivalent. However recent calculations (gr-qc/9910036) have revealed that they are correlated by an adimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Fran De Aquino

We define "constructed observables" as relating experimental measurements to terms in a Lagrangian while simultaneously making assumptions about possible deviations from the Standard Model (SM), in other Lagrangian terms. Ensuring that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Michael Trott

Precise measurements of SM particles properties at the LHC allows to look for heavy New Physics in the context of an Effective Field Theory (EFT). These searches, however, often rely on kinematic regions where the validity of the EFT may be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-16 Martin Gorbahn , Jose Miguel No , Veronica Sanz

A popular proposal for resolving the Hubble tension involves an early phase of dark energy, driven by an axion field with a periodic potential. In this paper, we argue that these models are tightly constrained by the axion weak gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-25 Tom Rudelius

An alternative quantum field theory for gravity is proposed for low energies based on an attractive effect between contaminants in a Bose-Einstein Condensate rather than on particle exchange. In the ``contaminant in condensate effect,"…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Oshmyansky