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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,…

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Effective Field Theory (EFT) is a general framework to parametrize the low-energy approximation to a UV model that is widely used in model-independent searches for new physics. The use of EFTs at the LHC can suffer from a 'validity' issue,…

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Effective field theories offer a powerful method to unify diverse models under a small set of control parameters, allowing systematic expansions around well-established theories. These techniques, developed in particle physics, were…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-02 Thomas Colas

The effective field theory (EFT) framework is a precise approximation procedure when the inherent assumptions of a large-scale separation between the Standard Model (SM) and new interactions alongside perturbativity are realised.…

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The method of effective field theories (EFTs) is developed for the scattering of two particles at wavelengths which are large compared to the range of their interaction. It is shown that the renormalized EFT is equivalent to the effective…

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

We review the effective field theory (EFT) approach to gravitational dynamics. We focus on extended objects in long-wavelength backgrounds and gravitational wave emission from spinning binary systems. We conclude with an introduction to EFT…

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Effective field theory (EFT) approaches are widely used at the LHC, such that it is important to study their validity, and ease of matching to specific new physics models. In this paper, we consider an extension of the SM in which a top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-04 Christoph Englert , Peter Galler , Chris D. White

We extend the effective field theory (EFT) formalism for gravitational radiation from a binary system of compact objects to the case of extended objects. In particular, we study the EFT for a binary system consisting of two infinitely-long…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-25 Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez , Qiuyue Liang , Mark Trodden

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

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 Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) provides a robust framework to interpret experimental measurements in the context of new physics scenarios while minimising assumptions on the nature of the underlying UV-complete theory. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-25 Tommaso Giani , Giacomo Magni , Juan Rojo

We develop the effective field theory (EFT) of perturbations in the context of scalar-tensor theories with a spacelike scalar profile on arbitrary black hole backgrounds. Our construction of the EFT is based on the fact that in the unitary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-16 Shinji Mukohyama , Emeric Seraille , Kazufumi Takahashi , Vicharit Yingcharoenrat

Effective Field Theories (EFTs) capture effects from heavy dynamics at low energy and represent an essential ingredient in the context of Standard Model (SM) precision tests. This document gathers a number of relevant scenarios for heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-04 D. Marzocca , F. Riva , J. Criado , S. Dawson , J. de Blas , B. Henning , D. Liu , C. Murphy , M. Perez-Victoria , J. Santiago , L. Vecchi , Lian-Tao Wang

In this whitepaper, I describe modern applications of effective field theory (EFT) techniques to classical and quantum gravity, with relevance to problems in astrophysics and cosmology. As in applications of EFT to high-energy, nuclear, or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-30 Walter D. Goldberger

We show how nuclear effective field theory (EFT) and ab initio nuclear-structure methods can turn input from lattice quantum chromodynamics (LQCD) into predictions for the properties of nuclei. We argue that pionless EFT is the appropriate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-03-05 N. Barnea , L. Contessi , D. Gazit , F. Pederiva , U. van Kolck

The soft bootstrap program aims to construct consistent effective field theories (EFT's) by recursively imposing the desired soft limit on tree-level scattering amplitudes through on-shell recursion relations. A prime example is the leading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-28 Ian Low , Zhewei Yin

The effective field theory (EFT) construction when the objects of interest are the In-In (or real time) correlators rather than the In-Out S-matrix elements is constructed. This is done using the formal equivalence between the In-In and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-30 Namit Mahajan

Generalized Effective Field Theory (GEFT) is the non-renormalizable extension of an Effective Field Theory where the Wilson coefficients are endowed by their own, independent scale dependence. Such an effective theory can be constructed by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Nikos Irges , Fotis Koutroulis

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

An operator basis of an effective theory with a heavy particle, subject to external gauge fields, is spanned by a particular kind of neutral scalar primary of the nonrelativistic conformal group. We calculate the characters that can be used…

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