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We present a general method of constructing unfactorizable on-shell amplitudes (amplitude basis), and build up their one-to-one correspondence to the independent and complete operator basis in effective field theory (EFT). We apply our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-21 Teng Ma , Jing Shu , Ming-Lei Xiao

The singular limits of massless gauge theory amplitudes are described by an effective theory, called soft-collinear effective theory (SCET), which has been applied most successfully to make all-orders predictions for observables in collider…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-29 Andrew J. Larkoski , Duff Neill , Iain W. Stewart

The well known Adler zero can fully determine tree amplitudes of non-linear sigma model (NLSM), but fails to fix tree pion amplitudes with higher-derivative interactions. To fill this gap, in this paper we propose a new method based on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-05 Kang Zhou

We study the constraints of crossing symmetry and unitarity for conformal field theories in the presence of a boundary, with a focus on the Ising model in various dimensions. We show that an analytic approach to the bootstrap is feasible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Pedro Liendo , Leonardo Rastelli , Balt C. van Rees

We investigate the soft behaviour of scalar effective field theories (EFTs) when there is a number of distinct derivative power counting parameters, $\rho_1< \rho_2<\ldots < \rho_Q$. We clarify the notion of an enhanced soft limit and use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Antonio Padilla , David Stefanyszyn , Toby Wilson

The soft anomalous dimension governs the infrared singularities of scattering amplitudes to all orders in perturbative quantum field theory, and is a crucial ingredient in both formal and phenomenological applications of non-abelian gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-25 Øyvind Almelid , Claude Duhr , Einan Gardi , Andrew McLeod , Chris D. White

We initiate the classification of nonrelativistic effective field theories (EFTs) for Nambu-Goldstone (NG) bosons, possessing a set of redundant, coordinate-dependent symmetries. Similarly to the relativistic case, such EFTs are natural…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-16 Tomas Brauner

We study soft theorems in a broader context, addressing their fate at loop level and their universality in effective field theories and string theory. We argue that for gauge theories in the planar limit, loop-level soft gluon theorems can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Massimo Bianchi , Song He , Yu-tin Huang , Congkao Wen

S-matrix elements in flat space can be obtained from a large AdS-radius limit of certain CFT correlators. We present a method for constructing CFT operators which create incoming and outgoing scattering states in flat space. This is done by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Eliot Hijano , Dominik Neuenfeld

We develop an effective field theory (EFT) for nuclear vibrations. The key ingredients - quadrupole degrees of freedom, rotational invariance, and a breakdown scale around the three-phonon level - are taken from data. The EFT is developed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-12-15 E. A. Coello Pérez , T. Papenbrock

In this dissertation, I introduce the principles and methods of effective field theory and describe my work in three EFTs: First, in the perturbative QCD region, I use soft collinear effective theory (SCET) to prove that strong interaction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-30 Ou Z. Labun

We use on-shell methods to calculate tree-level effective field theory (EFT) amplitudes, with no reference to the EFT operators. Lorentz symmetry, unitarity and Bose statistics determine the allowed kinematical structures. As a by-product,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-27 Yael Shadmi , Yaniv Weiss

We use effective string theory to study mesons with large spin $J$ in large $N_c$ QCD as rotating open strings. In the first part of this work, we formulate a consistent effective field theory (EFT) for open spinning strings with light…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-15 Gabriel Cuomo , Sergei Dubovsky , Guzmán Hernández-Chifflet , Alexander Monin , Shahrzad Zare

Using explicit results for the four-point correlation functions of the Wess-Zumino-Novikov-Witten (WZNW) model we discuss the conformal embedding osp(4|4)_(1) = osp(2|2)_(-2) + su(2)_(0). This embedding has emerged in Bernard and LeClair's…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. J. Bhaseen

We present a factorization formula for the $e + h \rightarrow e + \text{jet} + X$ cross section at small transverse momenta up to next-to-leading power (NLP), derived using the background field method (BFM) with explicit inclusion of soft…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-08 Max Jaarsma , Oscar del Rio , Ignazio Scimemi , Wouter Waalewijn

We present a map between the tree-level Standard Model Effective Theory (SMEFT) in the Warsaw basis and massive on-shell amplitudes. As a first step, we focus on the electroweak sector without fermions. We describe the Feynman rules for a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Rafael Aoude , Camila S. Machado

We study constraints on the effective field theory (EFT) from the relative entropy between two theories: we refer to these as target and reference theories. The consequence of the non-negativity of the relative entropy is investigated by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-02 Qing-Hong Cao , Naoto Kan , Daiki Ueda

Cutoff independence is an essential requirement for the predictive power of nuclear \textit{ab initio} calculations based on effective field theory (EFT). While it is conventionally assumed that such invariance necessitates high-order…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2026-04-23 Chen-Can Wang , Jia-Ai Shi , Bing-Nan Lu

Experiments in particle physics have hitherto failed to produce any significant evidence for the many explicit models of physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) that had been proposed over the past decades. As a result, physicists have…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2022-01-24 Philip Bechtle , Cristin Chall , Martin King , Michael Kraemer , Peter Maettig , Michael Stoeltzner

Motivated by phenomenology of myriad recently-identified topologically non-trivial phases of matter, we introduce effective field theories (EFTs) for the quantum skyrmion Hall effect (QSkHE). We employ a single, unifying generalisation for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-17 Vinay Patil , Rafael Flores-Calderón , Ashley M. Cook