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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 framework of standard model effective field theory (SMEFT) provides a relatively model-agnostic tool with which to parameterize the off-shell effects of potential heavy new physics. In the top quark sector, the ATLAS and CMS experiments…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-22 Kelci Mohrman

We extend previous halo effective field theory analyses of low-energy elastic scattering of $^{3}$He-$^{4}$He, including the $\frac{7}{2}^{-}$ $f$-wave resonance as an explicit degree of freedom. The presence of this resonance necessitates…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-27 Andrius Burnelis , Daniel R. Phillips

A brief overview of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) as a non-Abelian gauge field theory, including symmetries and formalism of interest, will precede a focused discussion on the use of an Effective Field Theory (EFT) as a low energy…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-05-08 Jonathan M M Hall

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

In this work, we study the key role of generic Effective Field Theory (EFT) framework to quantify the correlation functions in a quasi de Sitter background for an arbitrary initial choice of the quantum vacuum state. We perform the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-11 Sayantan Choudhury

We perform statistically rigorous uncertainty quantification (UQ) for chiral effective field theory ($\chi$EFT) applied to infinite nuclear matter up to twice nuclear saturation density. The equation of state (EOS) is based on high-order…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-01-08 C. Drischler , J. A. Melendez , R. J. Furnstahl , D. R. Phillips

Positivity bounds provide conditions that a consistent UV-completion exists for a quantum field theory. We examine their application to Horndeski gravity models reconstructed from the effective field theory (EFT) of dark energy. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-09 Joe Kennedy , Lucas Lombriser

Effective field theories (EFT) are strongly constrained by fundamental principles such as unitarity, locality, causality, and Lorentz invariance. In this paper, we consider the EFT of photons (or other $U(1)$ gauge field) and compare…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 Mariana Carrillo González , Claudia de Rham , Sumer Jaitly , Victor Pozsgay , Anna Tokareva

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

Extending the Standard Model with higher-dimensional operators in an effective-field-theory (EFT) approach provides a systematic framework to study new-physics (NP) effects from a bottom-up perspective, as long as the NP scale is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Marzia Bordone , Oscar Catà , Thorsten Feldmann

Physical principles such as unitarity, causality, and locality can constrain the space of consistent effective field theories (EFTs) by imposing two-sided bounds on the allowed values of Wilson coefficients. In this paper, we consider the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-20 Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez , Claudia de Rham , Victor Pozsgay , Andrew J. Tolley

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

Effective potentials are an essential ingredient of classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Little is understood of the consequences of representing the complex energy landscape of an atomic configuration by an effective potential or…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-03-13 Sarah Longbottom , Peter Brommer

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

The gauge singlet right-handed neutrinos (RHNs) are essential fields in several neutrino mass models that explain the observed eV scale neutrino mass. We assume RHN field to be present in the vicinity of the electroweak scale and all the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-06 Manimala Mitra , Sanjoy Mandal , Rojalin Padhan , Agnivo Sarkar , Michael Spannowsky

The process of renormalisation in nonperturbative Hamiltonian Effective Field Theory (HEFT) is examined in the $\Delta$-resonance scattering channel. As an extension of effective field theory incorporating the L\"uscher formalism, HEFT…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-08-31 Curtis D. Abell , Derek B. Leinweber , Anthony W. Thomas , Jia-Jun Wu

The striking success of the Standard Model in explaining precision data and, at the same time, its lack of explanations for various fundamental phenomena, such as dark matter or the baryon asymmetry of the universe, suggests new physics at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-23 Gino Isidori , Felix Wilsch , Daniel Wyler

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

Effective field theory is an effective approach to parameterizing effects of high energy scale physics in low energy measurements. The two popular frameworks for physics beyond the standard model are the so-called standard model effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-01 Yi Liao , Xiao-Dong Ma , Yoshiki Uchida