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The application of the effective field theory (EFT) method to nuclear systems is reviewed. The roles of degrees of freedom, QCD symmetries, power counting, renormalization, and potentials are discussed. EFTs are constructed for various…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 U. van Kolck

We derive the general counting rules for a quantum effective field theory (EFT) in $\mathsf{d}$ dimensions. The rules are valid for strongly and weakly coupled theories, and predict that all kinetic energy terms are canonically normalized.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-12 M. B. Gavela , E. E. Jenkins , A. V. Manohar , L. Merlo

The virtues of an effective field theory (EFT) approach to many-body problems are illustrated by deriving the expansion for the energy of an homogeneous, interacting Fermi gas at low density and zero temperature. A renormalization scheme…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 H. -W. Hammer , R. J. Furnstahl

We discuss an effective field theory (EFT) approach to the computation of fluctuation-induced interactions between particles bound to a thermally fluctuating fluid surface controlled by surface tension. By describing particles as points,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 Cem Yolcu , Ira Z. Rothstein , Markus Deserno

Implications of general properties of quantum field theory, such as causality, unitarity, and locality include constraints on the couplings of the effective field theory (EFT) coefficients. These constraints follow from the connections…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-17 Guangzhuo Peng , Long-Qi Shao , Anna Tokareva , Yongjun Xu

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

Predictive power in theoretical nuclear physics has been a major concern in the study of nuclear structure and reactions. The Effective Field Theory (EFT) based on chiral expansions provides a model independent hierarchy for many body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 E. Ruiz Arriola , J. E. Amaro , R. Navarro Perez

Effective Field Theory (EFT) is the successful paradigm underlying modern theoretical physics, including the "Core Theory" of the Standard Model of particle physics plus Einstein's general relativity. I will argue that EFT grants us a…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2021-01-21 Sean M. Carroll

Effective field theories (EFTs) organize the description of complex systems into an infinite sequence of decreasing importance. Predictions are made with a finite number of terms, which induces a truncation error that is often left…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-16 J. A. Melendez , R. J. Furnstahl , D. R. Phillips , M. T. Pratola , S. Wesolowski

The existence of a positive linear functional acting on the space of (differences between) conformal blocks has been shown to rule out regions in the parameter space of conformal field theories (CFTs). We argue that at the boundary of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Sheer El-Showk , Miguel F. Paulos

Effective Field Theories (EFTs) provide a framework for capturing the effects of yet unseen heavy degrees of freedom in a model-independent manner. However, constructing a complete and minimal set of operators, especially at higher mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-15 Magnus C. Schaaf

We formulate an effective field theory (EFT) of coupled dark energy (DE) and dark matter (DM) interacting through energy and momentum transfers. In the DE sector, we exploit the EFT of vector-tensor theories with the presence of a preferred…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-24 Katsuki Aoki , Jose Beltrán Jiménez , Masroor C. Pookkillath , Shinji Tsujikawa

According to \textit{effective realism}, scientific theories give us knowledge about the unobservable world, but not at the fundamental level. This view is justified by the well-received \textit{effective-field-theory} (EFT) approach to…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-09-11 Lu Chen

Assuming the presence of physics beyond the Standard Model (SM) with a characteristic scale M ~ O(10) TeV, we investigate the naturalness of the Higgs sector at scales below M using an effective field theory (EFT) approach. We obtain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 Shaouly Bar-Shalom , Amarjit Soni , Jose Wudka

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

We discuss the general method for obtaining full positivity bounds on multi-field effective field theories (EFTs). While the leading order forward positivity bounds are commonly derived from the elastic scattering of two (superposed)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-22 Xu Li , Hao Xu , Chengjie Yang , Cen Zhang , Shuang-Yong Zhou

At sufficiently high energies the production of a very large number of particles is kinematically allowed. However, it is well-known that already in the simplest case of a weakly-coupled massive $\lambda \varphi^4$ theory, $n$-particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-08 Valentin V. Khoze , Sebastian Schenk

Measurements carried out or reinterpreted within the framework of effective field theory (EFT) will constitute a key component of the LHC legacy in the quest towards physics beyond the standard model. Numerous EFT measurements were already…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-02-22 Nicolas Tonon

We implement the effective field theory (EFT) approach to dark energy and modified gravity in the public Einstein-Boltzmann solver CAMB. The resulting code, which we dub EFTCAMB, is a powerful and versatile tool that can be used for several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-28 Bin Hu , Marco Raveri , Noemi Frusciante , Alessandra Silvestri

We develop interactions from chiral effective field theory (EFT) that are tailored to the harmonic oscillator basis. As a consequence, ultraviolet convergence with respect to the model space is implemented by construction and infrared…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-05-02 S. Binder , A. Ekström , G. Hagen , T. Papenbrock , K. A. Wendt