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In this paper, we explore positivity bounds for the effective field theory~(EFT) of a single weakly coupled massive vector field. The presence of both mass and spin makes the crossing properties of the amplitudes vastly complicated -- we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-16 Francesco Bertucci , Johan Henriksson , Brian McPeak , Sara Ricossa , Francesco Riva , Alessandro Vichi

We reassess the problem of renormalization in finite temperature field theory (FTFT). A new point of view elucidates the relation between the ultraviolet divergences for T=0 and $T \not= 0$ theories and makes clear the reason why the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 D. H. T. Franco , J. L. Acebal

The renormalization of composite operators is a fundamental aspect of quantum field theory, relevant for the description of phase transitions and high energy phenomenology. We calculate the anomalous dimensions of a large set of operators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-06 Johan Henriksson , Stefanos R. Kousvos , Jasper Roosmale Nepveu

We use two renormalization techniques, Effective Field Theory and the Similarity Renormalization Group, to solve simple Schr{\"o}dinger equations with delta-function potentials in one and two dimensions. The familiar one-dimensional…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergio Szpigel , Robert Perry

Debate topic for Effective Field Theory (EFT) is the choice of a "basis" for $\mrdim = 6$ operators Clearly all bases are equivalent as long as they are a "basis", containing a minimal set of operators after the use of equations of motion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-01 Giampiero Passarino

Using the renormalization group techniques it was previously shown that the perturbative effective potential in the $\mathcal{O}(N)$ symmetric $\phi^4$ theory, massless scalar electrodynamics as well as in the conformal limit of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-07-02 T. Hanif , N. Ishtiaque

In this paper, we attempt to derive ``positivity" bounds on Photon and Gluon Effective Field Theories (EFTs) at one loop level. While for the Photon case, the one loop amplitude is IR finite and well defined in the forward limit, earlier…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-31 Jay Desai , Diptimoy Ghosh

We investigate the high-order behavior of perturbative matching conditions in effective field theories. These series are typically badly divergent, and are not Borel summable due to infrared and ultraviolet renormalons which introduce…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Michael Luke , Aneesh V. Manohar , Martin J. Savage

We present updates on the cosmology inference using the effective field theory (EFT) likelihood presented previously in Schmidt et al., 2018, Elsner et al., 2019 [1,2]. Specifically, we add a cutoff to the initial conditions that serve as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-06 Fabian Schmidt , Giovanni Cabass , Jens Jasche , Guilhem Lavaux

The renormalization is investigated of one-loop quantum fluctuations around a constrained instanton in $\phi ^4$-theory with negative coupling. It is found that the constraint should be renormalized also. This indicates that in general only…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 P. M. Glerfoss , N. K. Nielsen

The $F$-theorem states that in three dimensions the sphere free energy of a field theory must decrease between ultraviolet and infrared fixed points of the renormalization group flow, and it has been proven for unitary conformal field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-16 Dario Benedetti , Razvan Gurau , Sabine Harribey , Davide Lettera

We apply effective field theory (EFT) methods to compute the renormalization group improved effective potential for theories with a large mass hierarchy. Our method allows one to compute the effective potential in a systematic expansion in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-28 Aneesh V. Manohar , Emily Nardoni

We consider positivity constraints applicable to the Effective Field Theory (EFT) of gravity in arbitrary dimensions. By considering scattering of indefinite initial and final states, we highlight the existence of a gravitational scattering…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-12 Claudia de Rham , Sumer Jaitly , Andrew J. Tolley

Effective Field Theory (EFT) extensions of the Standard Model are tools to compute observables $\big(e.g.$ cross sections with partonic center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{\hat{s}}\,\big)$ as a systematically improvable expansion suppressed by a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-07 Timothy Cohen , Joel Doss , Xiaochuan Lu

Effective field theory provides a new perspective on the predictive power of Renormalization Group fixed points. Critical trajectories between different fixed points confine the regions of UV-complete, IR-complete, as well as conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-31 Aaron Held

We discuss the conditions for an effective field theory (EFT) to give an adequate low-energy description of an underlying physics beyond the Standard Model (SM). Starting from the EFT where the SM is extended by dimension-6 operators,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-08 Roberto Contino , Adam Falkowski , Florian Goertz , Christophe Grojean , Francesco Riva

The wave function renormalization constant $Z$, the probability to find the bare particle in the physical particle, usually satisfies the unitarity bound $0 \leq Z \leq 1$ in field theories without negative metric states. This unitarity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 K. Higashijima , E. Itou

We derive the renormalization group equations for a generic nonrenormalizable theory. We show that the equations allow one to derive the structure of the leading divergences at any loop order in terms of one-loop diagrams only. In chiral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthias Buchler , Gilberto Colangelo

We derive the first positivity bounds for low-energy Effective Field Theories (EFTs) that are not invariant under Lorentz boosts. "Positivity bounds" are the low-energy manifestation of certain fundamental properties in the UV -- to date…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-12 Tanguy Grall , Scott Melville

Positivity bounds in effective field theories (EFTs) can be extracted through the moment problem approach, utilizing well-established results from the mathematical literature. We generalize this formalism using the matrix moment approach to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-25 Shi-Lin Wan , Shuang-Yong Zhou