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We fully solve the long-standing problem of operator basis construction for fields with any masses and spins. Based on the on-shell method, we propose a novel method to systematically construct a complete set of lowest dimensional amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-19 Zi-Yu Dong , Teng Ma , Jing Shu , Yu-Hui Zheng

We construct the on-shell amplitude basis and the corresponding effective operators for generic modified gravity theory, such as pure gravity with higher derivatives, scalar-tensor gravity, Einstein-Yang-Mills, etc. Taking the Weyl tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-23 Hao-Lin Li , Zhe Ren , Ming-Lei Xiao , Jiang-Hao Yu , Yu-Hui Zheng

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

We first propose a general method to construct the complete set of on-shell operator bases involving massive particles with any spins. To incorporate the non-abelian little groups of massive particles, the on-shell scattering amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-07 Zi-Yu Dong , Teng Ma , Jing Shu

We describe a general framework to depict the space of Lorentz invariant effective field theories, which we call the landscape, given any kind of gauge symmetry and field content. Various operator bases in the landscape can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-23 Hao-Lin Li , Jing Shu , Ming-Lei Xiao , Jiang-Hao Yu

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 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

On-shell amplitudes are invariant under field redefinitions. Nonderivative field redefinitions have a natural interpretation as coordinate transformations on the target manifold. General field redefinitions, which may involve derivatives,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-26 Timothy Cohen , Xu-Xiang Li , Zhengkang Zhang

We present a complete and independent off-shell Green's basis of the dimension 8 operators in the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT). We propose an off-shell amplitude formalism such that this new kind of amplitudes has a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-22 Zhe Ren , Jiang-Hao Yu

We present a complete list of the dimension 8 operator basis in the standard model effective field theory using group theoretic techniques in a systematic and automated way. We adopt a new form of operators in terms of the irreducible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 Hao-Lin Li , Zhe Ren , Jing Shu , Ming-Lei Xiao , Jiang-Hao Yu , Yu-Hui Zheng

We establish a systematic construction of the on-shell amplitude/operator basis for Chiral Perturbation Theory (ChPT) in $D=4$ spacetime dimensions and with an arbitrary number of flavors $N_f$. For kinematic factors, we employ…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-25 Ian Low , Jing Shu , Ming-Lei Xiao , Yu-Hui Zheng

This work establishes a systematic framework for operator construction in the non-relativistic effective field theory, incorporating both the three dimensional Euclidean symmetry and the internal symmetries. By employing double cover of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-13 Yong-Kang Li , Yi-Ning Wang , Jiang-Hao Yu

We compute the complete one-loop renormalization group equations (RGEs) for all the four-fermion operators at dimension-8 Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). We adopt the on-shell framework, where the RGEs are obtained from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-29 Chao Wu , Ming-Lei Xiao , Jiang-Hao Yu , Yu-Hui Zheng

The purely on-shell approach to effective field theories requires the construction of independent contact terms. Employing the little-group-covariant massive-spinor formalism, we present the first systematic derivation of independent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-21 Gauthier Durieux , Teppei Kitahara , Camila S. Machado , Yael Shadmi , Yaniv Weiss

Form factors are quantities that involve both asymptotic on-shell states and gauge invariant operators. They provide a natural bridge between on-shell amplitudes and off-shell correlation functions of operators, thus allowing us to use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-13 Gang Yang

We establish a simple formula for the minimal dimension of operators leading to any helicity amplitude. It eases the systematic enumeration of independent operators from the construction of massless non-factorizable on-shell amplitudes.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-29 Gauthier Durieux , Camila S. Machado

We present for the first time an efficient algorithm to find a basis of kinematically independent structures built of (massless and massive) spinor helicity variables in four dimensions. This method provides a classification of independent…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-14 Stefano De Angelis

We implement modular flavor symmetries within the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework, using the flavor group $A_4^{(q)} \times A_4^{(e)}$ with distinct moduli $\tau_q$ and $\tau_e$, and assigning different modular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-02 Luo-Jia Kang , Hao Sun , Jiang-Hao Yu

We present a complete and independent list of the dimension 9 operator basis in the Standard Model effective field theory by an automatic algorithm based on the amplitude-operator correspondence. A complete basis (y-basis) is first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 Hao-Lin Li , Zhe Ren , Ming-Lei Xiao , Jiang-Hao Yu , Yu-Hui Zheng

The standard model effective field theory (SMEFT) provides systematic parameterization of all possible new physics above the electroweak scale. According to the amplitude-operator correspondence, an effective operator can be decomposed into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-21 Hao-Lin Li , Yu-Han Ni , Ming-Lei Xiao , Jiang-Hao Yu
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