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Obtaining accurately calibrated redshift distributions of photometric samples is one of the great challenges in photometric surveys like LSST, Euclid, HSC, KiDS, and DES. We present an inference methodology that combines the redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-09 M. M. Rau , C. B. Morrison , S. J. Schmidt , S. Wilson , R. Mandelbaum , Y. Y. Mao

We explore the degrees of freedom required to jointly fit projected and redshift-space clustering of galaxies selected in three bins of stellar mass from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Main Galaxy Sample (SDSS MGS) using a subhalo abundance…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Joseph DeRose , Matthew R. Becker , Risa H. Wechsler

I review the main features of the effective field theory (EFT) behind scenarios of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking, placing particular emphasis on the systematics and the parallels that can be drawn with Chiral Perturbation Theory.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-23 Oscar Cata

We present a new formalism to separate large- and small-scale contributions to cosmic shear through \textit{lensing counterterms} (LCT) inspired by effective field theory (EFT). Marginalizing over these LCTs isolates the large-scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-31 Joseph DeRose , Shi-Fan Chen

I review the effective field theory (EFT) description of gravitating compact objects. The focus is on kinematic regimes where gravity is perturbative, in particular the adiabatic inspiral phase relevant to gravitational wave detection. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-14 Walter D. Goldberger

Effective field theories (EFT) parameterize the long-distance effects of short-distance dynamics whose details may or may not be known. It is known that EFT coefficients must obey certain positivity constraints if causality and unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-16 Simon Caron-Huot , Vincent Van Duong

We present predictions for redshift-space peculiar velocity statistics in the Lagrangian and Eulerian formulations of the effective field theory (EFT) of large-scale structure. We compute 2-point pairwise velocity statistics up to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-07 Shi-Fan Chen , Cullan Howlett , Yan Lai , Fei Qin

We present cosmological results inferred from the effective-field theory (EFT) analysis of the full-shape of eBOSS quasars (QSO) power spectrum. We validate our analysis pipeline against simulations, and find overall good agreement between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-18 Théo Simon , Pierre Zhang , Vivian Poulin

To improve the performance of full-shape analyses of large-scale structure, we consider using a halo occupation distribution (HOD)-informed prior for the effective field theory (EFT) nuisance parameters. We generate 320 000 mock galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-19 Hanyu Zhang , Marco Bonici , Guido D'Amico , Simone Paradiso , Will J. Percival

We compute the connected four point correlation function (the trispectrum in Fourier space) of cosmological density perturbations at one-loop order in Standard Perturbation Theory (SPT) and the Effective Field Theory of Large Scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-06 Daniele Bertolini , Katelin Schutz , Mikhail P. Solon , Kathryn M. Zurek

The evolution of hard probes in a medium is a complex multiscale problem that significantly benefits from the use of Effective Field Theories (EFTs). Within the EFT framework, we aim to define a series of EFTs in a way that addresses each…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-05 Miguel Ángel Escobedo

We present a novel strategy to uncover indirect signs of new physics in collider data using the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) framework, offering notably improved sensitivity compared to traditional global analyses. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-25 Martin Hirsch , Luca Mantani , Veronica Sanz

The 1D flux power spectrum ($P_{\mathrm{1D}}$) of the Ly$\alpha$ forest provides an exceptionally high-resolution probe of structure formation down to small scales ($k\approx1-10~\text{$h~$Mpc$^{-1}$}$). These scales carry the imprints of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-13 N. G. Karaçaylı , M. Ivanov , R. de Belsunce , C. Ravoux , J. M. Sexton , Z. Lukić

Many studies of possible new physics employ effective field theory (EFT), whereby corrections to the Standard Model take the form of higher-dimensional operators, suppressed by a large energy scale. Fits of such a theory to data typically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 Christoph Englert , Michael Russell , Chris D. White

We derive an effective field theory (EFT) for cosmological Lyman alpha forest fluctuations valid for the power spectrum at the one-loop order. The ``bottom-up'' EFT expansion at the level of the transmitted flux is identical to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-04 Mikhail M. Ivanov

Simulation-based inference (SBI) has become an important tool in cosmology for extracting additional information from observational data using simulations. However, all cosmological simulations are approximations of the actual universe, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Sébastien Pierre , Bruno Régaldo-Saint Blancard , ChangHoon Hahn , Michael Eickenberg

We review the effective field theory (EFT) bootstrap by formulating it as an infinite-dimensional semidefinite program (SDP), built from the crossing symmetric sum rules and the S-matrix primal ansatz. We apply the program to study the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-17 Yue-Zhou Li

We recently developed an Effective Field Theory (EFT) for rotational bands in odd-mass nuclei. Here we use EFT expressions to perform a Bayesian analysis of data on the rotational energy levels of $^{99}$Tc, ${}^{155,157}$Gd, ${}^{159}$Dy,…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-03-07 I. K. Alnamlah , E. A. Coello Pérez , D. R. Phillips

The Effective Field Theory of Large Scale Structure (EFTofLSS) has found tremendous success as a perturbative framework for the evolution of large scale structure, and it is now routinely used to compare theoretical predictions against…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-18 Caio Nascimento , Drew Jamieson , Matthew McQuinn , Marilena Loverde

Precise initial conditions (ICs) are crucial for accurate computation in cosmological perturbation theory. We derive the consistent ICs for Horndeski theory in the Effective Field Theory (EFT) approach, assuming constant EFT functions at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-13 Jiaming Pan , Meng-Xiang Lin , Gen Ye , Marco Raveri , Alessandra Silvestri