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Analyzing the clustering of galaxies at the field level in principle promises access to all the cosmological information available. Given this incentive, in this paper we investigate the performance of field-based forward modeling approach…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-31 Andrija Kostić , Nhat-Minh Nguyen , Fabian Schmidt , Martin Reinecke

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

Non-perturbative limitations on low-energy effective field theories (EFTs) based on the characteristics of high-energy theory are provided by the analyticity of the flat-space version of the S-matrix. Although the analyticity of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-30 Sayantan Choudhury

Starting with QCD, we derive an effective field theory description for forward scattering and factorization violation as part of the soft-collinear effective field theory (SCET) for high energy scattering. These phenomena are mediated by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-13 Ira Z. Rothstein , Iain W. Stewart

We classify four-dimensional effective field theories (EFTs) with enhanced soft limits, which arise due to non-linearly realised symmetries on the Goldstone modes of such theories. We present an algorithm for deriving all possible algebras…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-04 Diederik Roest , David Stefanyszyn , Pelle Werkman

In this work, we study the key role of generic Effective Field Theory (EFT) framework to quantify the correlation functions in a quasi de Sitter background for an arbitrary initial choice of the quantum vacuum state. We perform the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-11 Sayantan Choudhury

Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) has been formulated since a decade now in covariant gauges. In this work we derive a modified SCET Lagrangian applicable in both classes of gauges: regular and singular ones. This extends the range of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-08 Miguel Garcia-Echevarria , Ahmad Idilbi , Ignazio Scimemi

We show that effective field theory techniques can be efficiently used to compute power corrections to the hard thermal loops (HTL) in a high temperature T expansion. To this aim, we use the recently proposed on-shell effective field theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-27 Cristina Manuel , Joan Soto , Stephan Stetina

We develop an effective-field-theory (EFT) framework to analyze the spectra emerging from lattice simulations of a large class of confining gauge theories. Simulations of these theories, for which the light-fermion count is not far below…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Thomas Appelquist , James Ingoldby , Maurizio Piai

We present a novel approach to classify supersymmetric effective field theories (EFTs) whose scattering amplitudes exhibit enhanced soft limits. These enhancements arise due to non-linearly realised symmetries on the Goldstone modes of such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Diederik Roest , David Stefanyszyn , Pelle Werkman

Low-energy effective field theories containing a light scalar field are used extensively in cosmology, but often there is a tension between embedding such theories in a healthy UV completion and achieving a phenomenologically viable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-17 Anne-Christine Davis , Scott Melville

We present a novel way in which effective field theory (EFT) can break down in cosmological string backgrounds depending on the behavior of the quantum gravity cutoff in infinite distance limits, known as the species scale $\Lambda_s$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-21 Alek Bedroya , Hayden Lee , Paul Steinhardt

The conservation of the long wavelength fluctuations of the metric plays a vital role in cosmology as the link between quantum fluctuations during inflation and late time observations. This is a well-known property of the classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-06 Daniel Green , Kshitij Gupta

We develop an effective field theory (EFT) for deformed odd-mass nuclei. These are described as an axially symmetric core to which a nucleon is coupled. In the coordinate system fixed to the core the nucleon is subject to an axially…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 T. Papenbrock , H. A. Weidenmüller

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 consider the most general effective field theory (EFT) Lagrangian with scalar fields and derivatives, and renormalise it to substantially higher loop order than existing results in the literature. EFT Lagrangians have phenomenological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-12 Johan Henriksson , Franz Herzog , Stefanos R. Kousvos , Jasper Roosmale Nepveu

The Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) provides a powerful, model-independent framework to explore deviations from the Standard Model (SM) by parametrising potential new physics through higher-dimensional operators. This thesis…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-06 Álvaro Díaz-Carmona

In the framework of soft-collinear effective theory (SCET), we show how to formulate the resummation for a broad family of final-state, global observables in high-energy collisions in a general way that is suitable for a numerical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Christian W. Bauer , Pier Francesco Monni

Dismissing traditional naturalness concerns while embracing the Higgs boson mass measurement and unification motivates careful analysis of trans-TeV supersymmetric theories. We take an effective field theory (EFT) approach, matching the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-04 James D. Wells , Zhengkang Zhang

We classify effective field theory (EFT) deformations of the Standard Model (SM) according to the analyticity property of the Lagrangian as a function of the Higgs doublet H. Our distinction in analytic and non-analytic corresponds to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Adam Falkowski , Riccardo Rattazzi