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A mass distribution is analyzed in terms of classical gravitational field theory. Newton's law of gravitation is consistently applied on the assumption that the equivalence of energy and mass according to Einstein's theory of relativity is…

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The discovery of cosmic acceleration has triggered a consistent body of theoretical work aimed at modeling its phenomenology and understanding its fundamental physical nature. In recent years, a powerful formalism that accomplishes both…

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A scalar theory of gravitation with a preferred reference frame (PRF) is considered, that accounts for special relativity and reduces to it if the gravitational field cancels. The gravitating system consists of a finite number of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mayeul Arminjon

First and second order corrections for the scattering of different types of particles by a weak gravitational field, treated as an external field, are calculated. These computations indicate a violation of the Equivalence Principle: to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-15 Ricardo Paszko

The motion of a small compact object in a background spacetime is investigated in the context of a model nonlinear scalar field theory. This model is constructed to have a perturbative structure analogous to the General Relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Chad R. Galley

Effective Field Theory (EFT) stands as a cornerstone in modern theoretical physics, offering a powerful framework for describing the dynamics of physical systems across a wide range of energy scales. This article provides an in-depth…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-15 Waqas Riaz

We extend effective field theory to the case of spontaneous symmetry breaking in genuinely finite quantum systems such as small superfluid systems, molecules or atomic nuclei, and focus on deformed nuclei. In finite superfluids, symmetry…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-02-04 T. Papenbrock , H. A. Weidenmueller

In this conference paper, we consider effective field theories of non-relativistic dark matter particles interacting with a light force mediator in the early expanding universe. We present a general framework, where to account in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-18 Simone Biondini , Nora Brambilla , Gramos Qerimi , Antonio Vairo

Effective Field Theory (EFT) provides a powerful framework that exploits a separation of scales in physical systems to perform systematically improvable, model-independent calculations. Particularly interesting are few-body systems with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 H. -W. Hammer

The effective field theory (EFT) for triaxially deformed even-even nuclei is generalized to include the vibrational degrees of freedom. The pertinent Hamiltonian is constructed up to next-to-leading order. The leading order part describes…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-07-04 Q. B. Chen , N. Kaiser , Ulf-G. Meißner , J. Meng

Part 2 of 3 from master's thesis: Modeling Compact Objects with Effective Field Theory. Using the Effective Field Theory framework for extended objects, we build the effective theory of a binary system made up of the most general compact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-06 Irvin Martinez

Allowing the energy of a gravitational field to serve partially as its own source allows gravitating bodies to exhibit stronger fields, as if they were more massive. Depending on degree of compaction of the body, the field could be one to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-29 Yousef Sobouti

We formulate the effective field theory (EFT) of vector-tensor gravity for perturbations around an arbitrary background with a ${\it timelike}$ vector profile, which can be applied to study black hole perturbations. The vector profile…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-08 Katsuki Aoki , Mohammad Ali Gorji , Shinji Mukohyama , Kazufumi Takahashi , Vicharit Yingcharoenrat

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 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

We derive an effective dynamics for scalar cosmological perturbations from quantum gravity, in the framework of group field theory (GFT) condensate cosmology. The emergent spacetime picture is obtained from the mean field hydrodynamic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-19 Luca Marchetti , Daniele Oriti

Strong-Field Electrodynamics (SFE) is Maxwell theory with a certain Lorentz-covariant Ohm's law which uses only the electromagnetic degrees of freedom. We show that SFE is {\it semi-dissipative}: while the dissipation rate of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-14 Andrei Gruzinov

I briefly summarized some recent work which uses the techniques of effective field theory to make quantum predictions in general relativity. In contrast to conventional expectations, these are in fact well behaved. The leading quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 John F. Donoghue

In the Horndeski's most general scalar-tensor theories the equations of scalar density perturbations are derived in the presence of non-relativistic matter minimally coupled to gravity. Under a quasi-static approximation on sub-horizon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Antonio De Felice , Tsutomu Kobayashi , Shinji Tsujikawa

Using a recently presented numerical code for calculating the Lorenz-gauge gravitational self-force (GSF), we compute the $O(m)$ conservative correction to the precession rate of the small-eccentricity orbits of a particle of mass $m$…

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