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Effective field theory (EFT) methods for a uniform system of fermions with short-range, natural interactions are extended to include pairing correlations, as part of a program to develop a systematic Kohn-Sham density functional theory…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 R. J. Furnstahl , H. -W. Hammer , S. J. Puglia

The calculation of loop corrections to the correlation functions of quantum fields during inflation or in the de~Sitter background presents greater challenges than in flat space due to the more complicated form of the mode functions. While…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-13 Martin Beneke , Patrick Hager , Andrea F. Sanfilippo

We formulate the Effective Field Theory (EFT) of perturbations within scalar-tensor theories on an inhomogeneous background. The EFT is constructed while keeping a background of a scalar field to be $\textit{timelike}$, which spontaneously…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-11 Shinji Mukohyama , Vicharit Yingcharoenrat

Precise cosmological data from WMAP and forthcoming CMB experiments motivate the study of the quantum corrections to the slowroll inflationary parameters.We find the quantum (loop) corrections to the equations of motion of the classical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Boyanovsky , H. J. de Vega , N. G. Sanchez

Using the dS/QFT correspondence in the context of inflation allows for the study of interesting, otherwise inaccessible physics. In particular, by studying inflation via its dual field theory at the boundary of the de Sitter space, it may…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-08 Mafalda Dias

We present a general perturbative effective field theory (EFT) description of galaxy shape correlations, which are commonly known as intrinsic alignments. This rigorous approach extends current analytical modelling strategies in that it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Zvonimir Vlah , Nora Elisa Chisari , Fabian Schmidt

During inflation, there is a preferred reference frame in which the expansion of the background spacetime is spatially isotropic. In contrast to Minkowski spacetime, observables can depend on the velocity of the system with respect to this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-16 Tanguy Grall , Scott Melville

The effective field theory (EFT) of inflation provides a natural framework to study the new physical effects on primordial perturbations. Recently a healthy extension of the EFT of inflation with high-order operators has been proposed,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-01 Jin Qiao , Guang-Hua Ding , Qiang Wu , Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang

We develop an effective-field-theory (EFT) framework for inflation with various symmetry breaking pattern. As a prototype, we formulate anisotropic inflation from the perspective of EFT and construct an effective action of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-14 Jinn-Ouk Gong , Toshifumi Noumi , Gary Shiu , Jiro Soda , Kazufumi Takahashi , Masahide Yamaguchi

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.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-22 Upalaparna Banerjee , Joydeep Chakrabortty , Christoph Englert , Wrishik Naskar , Shakeel Ur Rahaman , Michael Spannowsky

Effective field theory (EFT) is generalized to investigate the rotational motion of triaxially deformed even-even nuclei. A Hamiltonian, called the triaxial rotor model (TRM), is obtained up to next-to-leading order (NLO) within the EFT…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Q. B. Chen , N. Kaiser , Ulf-G. Meißner , J. Meng

Gravitational wave `echoes' during black-hole merging events have been advocated as possible signals of modifications to gravity in the strong-field (but semiclassical) regime. In these proposals the observable effect comes entirely from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-02 C. P. Burgess , Ryan Plestid , Markus Rummel

In a QFT on de Sitter background, one can study correlators between fields pushed to the future and past horizons of a comoving observer. This is a neat probe of the physics in the observer's causal diamond (known as the static patch). We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-22 Mehrdad Mirbabayi , Flavio Riccardi

We provide a general formalism to calculate the infrared correlators of multiple interacting scalar fields in the de Sitter space by means of the stochastic approach. These scalar fields are treated as test fields and hence our result is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Hayato Motohashi , Teruaki Suyama , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

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

Scattering amplitudes at weak coupling are highly constrained by Lorentz invariance, locality and unitarity, and depend on model details only through coupling constants and particle content. In this paper, we develop an understanding of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-01 Nima Arkani-Hamed , Daniel Baumann , Hayden Lee , Guilherme L. Pimentel

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

When a (non-)Abelian gauge field acquires an isotropic background configuration during inflation, strong gravitational waves (GWs) with parity-violating polarization, known as chiral GWs, can be produced in addition to the intrinsic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Katsuki Aoki , Tomohiro Fujita , Ryodai Kawaguchi , Kazuki Yanagihara

Loop corrections to primordial correlation functions are unavoidable due to the non-linear nature of gravity. Previous works have established a robust framework for computing the renormalised one-loop power spectra of scalar and tensor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Matteo Braglia , Sebastián Céspedes , Lucas Pinol

The effective field theory of inflation is a powerful tool for obtaining model independent predictions common to large classes of inflationary models. It requires only information about the symmetries broken during the inflationary era, and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-11 Nicola Bartolo , Dario Cannone , Angelo Ricciardone , Gianmassimo Tasinato